How to replace alcohol in recipes?

Question

I can't use any type of alcohol in food, but i cook a lot of different types of dishes that use alcohol - like a half cup of wine in a chicken dish. I would like to still make them, just WITHOUT the alcohol, so how do i do this? Do i just replace it with something like broth? Or do you have any other suggestions....of course i could just not make the recipe, but that sucks.
help? Thank you =)

happylady: yea thats wut i thought, but apparently not all the alcohol is evaporated out. and i cant have ANY in my food, so unless its 100% out, i cant do that.

Also, what about sweet dishes...like pears stewed in wine or sumthing? Would you just replace that with juice and get similar results?

Answer 1

you can replace any wine with juice,

for rum, amaretto, brandy and other and other liquors you should use water for liquid equivalence and for taste you can get a distiled flavor they usually have in cake shops and places that sell bakery goods, normally 3 drops of flavor will equal 1 cup of liquor

Answer 2

Never ever cook with alcohol if you are Muslim. If this is the reason, you should never ever purchase or sell it. Even if your a grape farmer and you know the person you will sell the grapes to will use it to make wine it is forbidden. Other then that you can just use non-fermented wines. Like Grape Juice or carbonated grape juice, like champagne.

Answer 3

The closest Halal would be the non alcoholic cider juice, you can find in many supermarkets.

Just keep in mind , that alcohol did not become "Makrooh" until Omar Bno Alkhattab (raws) was reminded not approach Salat whilst under the influence of alcohol in the Qurnic surat : "Thou shall not approach salat whilst drunk" .
In Islam "khamr" is anything that alters the "mind" , hence any boiled "khamr" will not alter the "mind"..
In addition , Allah judge us by our "intentions". The intent to prepare a Halal food reducing to the minimum the alcoholic content is allowable in my humble opinion. Allah ghafur rahim.

Answer 4

When you cook the alcohol boils off first ( at a lower temperature than water boils at) so if you add alcohol it will evaporate out with cooking. You will have the flavor but not the alcohol.
Ok I am not an expert if you want things like brandy or rum you can purchase essences at the supermarket but I am not sure if these essences actually have any alcohol content them selves.

Answer 5

I can't use alcohol either but I use chicken broth or vegetable broth instead. Works fine for me. Even the extract flavourings have alcohol base, well I just checked one that I still have vanilla extract, sure enough, alcohol base.

Answer 6

i do this all the time. =)
you have to mix vinegar with just a little bit of sugar.

dont use alcohol at all, it does not completely evaporate (at most up to 95%!!)

Answer 7

in a chicken dish you the chicken broth instead. If you are baking you can use extracts instead.

Answer 8

use grape juice