Did You Know-Ingredient Substitution
How many times do you go to make a recipe and you are missing an ingredient? Here are 10 common ingredients that can be substituted with something else.
- ONE CUP WHOLE MILK: Substitute 3/4 cup skim milk with 1/4 cup half-and-half
- HEAVY CREAM: Substitute equal amount of evaporated milk (good for soups and sauce but not in whipping applications or baking recipes)
- ONE CUP HALF-AND-HALF: Substitute 3/4 cup whole milk with 1/4 cup heavy cream
- ONE CUP BUTTERMILK: Substitute 1 cup whole milk with 1 Tbsp lemon juice
- SOUR CREAM: Substitute equal amount of plain whole milk yogurt
- UNSALTED BUTTER: Substitute equal amount of salted butter, however, remove 1/2 tsp salt from the recipe for every stick of salted butter used
- BUTTER IN BAKING: Substitute one mashed avocado for every stick of butter you need to use for baking
- ONE CUP DRIED BEANS: Substitute 3 cups canned beans
- 1/2 CUP WINE IN COOKING: Substitute 1/2 cup beef broth with 1 tsp red or white wine vinegar
- ONE OUNCE UNSWEETENED CHOCOLATE: Substitute 3 Tbsp unsweetened cocoa powder with 1 Tbsp vegetable oil
Source: Cook’s Kitchen Hacks
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Yes, indeed
It does come in handy
I appreciate this reference 😀
You’re welcome!
#7 😳 I had no idea! Good to know! I’ll be saving this one! I grew up not having much, but with that, I watched my mom make meals out of nothing! So I learned really quickly how to substitute an ingredient, but I had no idea how to do many of these! Thanks for sharing!!
That’s because they are full of fat but it is a healthy fat. You’re welcome!
Great information. Thanks for posting it.
You’re welcome!
I can’t count how many times I’ve Googled for substitutes!! Thanks!
You’re not alone GP! You’re welcome.
All good. But I do take issue with #9🍷🍷. Also the mist used substitution is…instead of messing up a new kitchen, order in! 😉😉
Haha I like the way you think JC.
Great advice and tips, Diane! Thank you! Blessings!!💚💚
Thank you Karla!
You’re welcome, Diane!
I always find the milk and cream part of any recipe the more challenging part. Always the pressure to buy a carton of cream when I just need a little. 😆 This is a helpful list!
That’s funny, I have used the milk substitute for years. However, I was thrilled to see the dried beans to canned beans ratio. If I need to soak beans overnight before I can make a recipe, well it just doesn’t happen. Now I have a ratio to go by so I can just open a can or two and start cooking. The only thing I don’t mind waiting for is yeast dough.
so good to know and very helpful
Awesome!
Diane, your list brings up a question I have wanted to ask you. So many recipes call for butter and don’t specify salted or unsalted. What is your take when you see “butter” in a recipe?
If it just says butter, I assume it is salted.
Nice ! I especially like the one about the beans, I did not know that.
Me either! I had no idea what the ratio was from dried to canned and I thought that will come in handy. My favorite was the unsweetened chocolate. I rarely use it and when I do it’s usually 1-2 squares then the rest expires and I throw it away.
Handy!
I agree Dorothy, thank you. 🥰
Very useful list. Some of those are new to me. Making a copy!
I substitute the milk products all the time but the one that I liked the best was the unsweetened cocoa and oil.
Glad to learn about these helpful substitutes, Diane. You’re truly a knowledgeable cook. I tip off my hat for you.
Thank you for your kind words Lamittan. Have a great week.
Have a great one, too, Diane.
I do the bean one all the time. I wish I have known about the unsweetened Chocolate one when doing my Christmas Baking. Great tips, Diane.
That unsweetened chocolate one I wish I knew about decades ago. I already do most of the others. I was surprised how many cups of canned beans it took to substitute for the dry beans though.
I had looked it up years ago when I made my bean soup and a sausage and bean recipe and was surprised, but it worked.
As you know I will not win any cooking/baking prizes. 🙂 I read the list and am fascinated that a mashed avocado = one stick of butter.
Avocados are full of fat but it is a healthy fat. There are very few things I don’t care to eat and avocados are one of them.
I think I have only had avocadoes when we went out for Mexican food … I have never had avocado toast. I would not even know what to do with an avocado if you handed me one. 🙂
Very helpful. Thank you, Diane!
P. S. I have made a chocolate pie using avocado as the base, and it was delicious! (I didn’t tell my husband what it was until he had eaten a piece and asked for more. 😉 )
You’re welcome Ann! That is hilarious your husband didn’t even notice.
Everyone with a kitchen should bookmark this post.
It can come in handy, thank you!
I knew most of these tips, but using mashed avocado in place of butter is definitely news to me! I’m going to try that one day (although we always have butter in the house … but you never know) 😄.
I never run out of butter either. I don’t like avocado so I haven’t tried it but Avocado is high in fat so that’s why it works.