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Alcohol Free Cooking Tips that Taste Gourmet

No AlcoholWould you like to cook like a Gourmet Chef without using alcohol as an ingredient?

Why would you want to? The alcohol cooks out and just leaves the flavor behind!

Maybe you just don’t want alcohol in your home for:

  • Health reasons?
  • Religious reasons?
  • Financial reasons?

Well, here you go — Listed below are a few substitutions to get you started:

Amaretto – Almond extract (1/2 teaspoon extract for 2 tablespoons of Amaretto) or Amaretto syrup such as Davinci Gourmet, Coffee Syrup Sf Amaretto, 25.4-Ounce

Beer or Ale – A strong chicken, beef or mushroom broth, or non-alcoholic beer.

Beer or Ale (Light) – Chicken broth, white grape juice or ginger ale.

Red Burgundy – Red wine vinegar, grape juice or non-alcoholic wine

Red Wine, sweet or dry – non-alcoholic wine with a tablespoon of vinegar added to cut the sweetness, grape juice, cranberry juice, grape jelly, tomato juice, beef broth, liquid drained from vegetables, or water. Use equal amounts of liquid as called for in the recipe.

Rum – White grape juice, pineapple juice, or apple juice in equal liquid amounts as called for in the recipe. Can also use these juices with 1/2 to 1 teaspoon of rum, almond or vanilla extract added.

Sherry – Apple juice, orange juice, pineapple juice, or non-alcoholic vanilla extract.

Vodka – White grape juice or apple cider combined with lime juice or use plain water in place of the vodka.

White Burgundy – non-alcoholic wine, white grape juice combined with white wine vinegar.

White Wine, sweet or dry – non-alcoholic wine with a tablespoon of vinegar added to cut the sweetness, white grape juice, apple juice, apple cider, tomato juice, chicken broth, liquid drained from vegetables, ginger ale, or water. Use equal amounts of liquid as called for in the recipe.

Thrive can help!

Remember that Thrive Freeze Dried products can be ground into powder then made into broths, juice or syrups. Here’s some suggestions:

Note: FD – Freeze Dried. Thrive product numbers are for Pantry size cans

Thrive FD Fruit Selections
Thrive FD Vegetable Selections
Thrive Beef Bouillon (#22662)
Thrive Chicken Bouillon (#22663)
Thrive Tomato Powder (#22237)

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