Substitute for chives?!
Substitute for chives?
I'm making a frittata tomorrow morning and just realized it calls for chives (along with spinach, tomato and cream cheese). I wondered if Cilantro would be a good substitute, or if some mild onion would be better.
Answers:
In my opinion Cilantro wouldn't be the best choice it has such a predominant taste...like over powering. I'd use Italian parsley or green onion tops or both. Chives has a taste of it's own...so hard to substitute....You can always use vidalia onions or chopped red onions...diced fine and soaked in ice water first..to remove any strong taste it might have....but now it's summer and the onions should be sweet. Just remembered Tarragon would be a good spice to add to your other ingredients....
Best of luck,
Mama Jazzy Geri
Mild onion would probably be a closer substitute. I love cilantro, but it has a very strong & distinct flavor that is quite different from chives.
you can use green onions, shallots, any type of regular onion. Red onion would be tasty. Really you can use anything you want in a frittata. Think of it as a great way to get rid of leftovers in your fridge. i often will make a frittata with whatever i have one hand. last time I used ham, capers, red onion and sliced cooked potatoes. Be creative!!!
Chives are the tops of onions so a mild onion will do, better yet if you have some green onions chop the green tops off of them.
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you can substitute green onions for chives or scallions. Since they are bigger than chives, generally, the outcome may have a slightly different look to it, but it should taste pretty similar.
i would use some parsley and finely diced onion, therefore you still have the green fresh look with the mild taste of onion (you can also grate the onion with a cheese grater so you get onion flavor without big chunks of onion)
I don't know any good cook who hasn't substituted spring onions or green onions for chives at one time or another. They do it in many restaurant kitchens. Cilantro, however, might be just as good. Try it.
Mild onion would be better. Cilantro or as we here in NZ call it coriander, is completely different. Chives, shallots, garlic,leeks and something called self-propagating leeks are all pretty much interchangeable, if you allow for the fact that the strengths of their taste differ and they look different. The self-propagating leeks were given to us in 1982. They've been growing in our garden ever since with no attention. We use them whenever we run out of any of the others. See if you can get some. If you lived in NZ I'd mail you some.
Green onion tops. A little bit stronger flavor but I use them all the time. Often get them on baked potato in restraunts instead of chives. Cheaper and always available.
a substitue for chives in all recipes is tarragon.but onion is also alright
I'd go with the onion. Chives are part of the onion family.
Chives do have a strong flavor that can be best substituted with scallions. The green part is very mild and hardly recognizable by immature pallates like children. The white parts are a little bit stronger. Your breakfast sounds delicious, can I come too.
i would not use cilantro....cilantro is really not even close in flavor to chives.....use green onions (scallions)....or even shallots