Replace missing ingredients when baking, cooking or frying
Everybody may come to the situation that a certain ingredient for a baking or cooking recipe is not in the house - and then you might not want to ask the neighbors. But there is a way out for many cases, because a whole range of ingredients can be exchanged by others.
Here are some examples
When baking:
- 100 g sugar can be easily replaced by 80 g of honey or maple syrup
- powdered sugar It is best to make it yourself by grinding granulated sugar in a coffee grinder
- instead of Flour you can also use wheat starch or pudding powder
- bicarbonate of soda can be replaced by about twice the amount of baking soda
- baking powder can be replaced by dry yeast
- instead of 1 egg you can use ½ crushed banana or 70 g applesauce
- raisins Can be replaced by cranberries or other small cut dry fruits
- ground or chopped almonds can be replaced by hazelnuts (or vice versa)
- instead of gelatin It is best to use agar-agar powder
- 100 g butter replace with 80 ml of oil
- for 100 ml oil you can take 125 g of butter
- instead of Quark cream cheese can be used
- to spread the baking pan can be held bread crumbs also use grated coconut or oatmeal
- instead of yeast dough For pies or pizza you can bake a quark oil dough
When cooking and frying:
- egg for breading can be replaced by lightly whipped cream
- instead of ricotta You can take skimmed quark or even grained cream cheese
- instead of mascarpone Take cream quark and crème fraîche
- coriander or chervil can be replaced by parsley
- fennel can be replaced by the contents of a fennel bag instead Wine For a sauce take balsamic vinegar diluted with a little water
- instead of spring onions you can take leeks (vice versa)
- vinegar can be replaced by the water of sour cucumbers
- when gravy you can take mashed potatoes
- instead of sour cream you can also use crème fraîche or sour cream
- Creme fraiche Cheese can be replaced by sour cream
- buttermilk can be replaced with diluted natural yoghurt or milk with a little lemon juice
