Budget Analogues Of Expensive Products

Sometimes it happens that for the preparation of a festive dish you need to lay out the entire salary - marbled beef, capers, celery, halibut, etc.

Sometimes it happens that for the preparation of a festive dish you need to lay out the entire salary - marbled beef, capers, celery, halibut, etc. literally ruin us. But everyone wants something tasty, so we picked up 15 analogues of expensive products - and save money, and please your stomach.

Don't be alarmed if something exotic is on the ingredient list - we know the replacement!

 

Capers can be replaced with pickles - they are quite similar to each other in both appearance and taste - but completely different in price. Better yet, use homemade pickles - delicious! Instead of celery, you can take cabbage (by the way, it can be fried in breadcrumbs and served with meat). Marjoram is a great substitute for a pinch of dried oregano.

 

Ribs or beef tenderloin can be replaced with beef cheeks - they are much cheaper, but they have a very delicate structure and a bright beef taste. Cheeks are also good for making aromatic broth. Incredibly expensive artichokes can be safely replaced with celery root - and cook a dish according to a classic recipe. It will turn out incredibly tasty.

 

Instead of green basil, you can take red, and vice versa. Similarly with lentils: green can be safely replaced with red. Balsamic cream, which is especially popular in Italian salads, can be replaced with well-evaporated lingonberry juice. Morels in the preparation of the sauce can be safely replaced with porcini mushrooms.

 

When preparing risotto, parmesan and cream can be replaced with scamorza cheese and a spoonful of fat sour cream - it will turn out delicious. Most fish can be replaced: cod - pollock, halibut - flounder, haddock - pangasius. The taste will remain almost identical.

 

For desserts, vanilla extract can be replaced with vanilla sugar or a pinch of vanillin - it will give a fairly bright flavor. Vitamin-rich quinoa porridge can be safely replaced with ordinary buckwheat - it has no less usefulness, but it costs less. Sesame, olive or linseed oil can be safely replaced with vegetable oil when it comes to dressing a dish. Soy sauce and balsamic vinegar can be replaced with regular wine vinegar. The sauce will be even tastier if you add some spices or herbs to it and let it brew a little.

 

Salad of arugula, strawberries, walnuts seasoned with balsamic vinegar

Red wine for cooking can be replaced with wine in tetra packs (it is not so expensive). Alternatively, you can replace red wine with berry juice - if necessary, it can also be evaporated a little. For the preparation of desserts, melted chocolate is often needed - it can be replaced with a mixture of cocoa and vegetable oil (3: 1 ratio, respectively). When cooking meat in the oven, fresh pineapple can be replaced with canned.