Can't Find The Ingredient You Need?
How often have you gone on a wild-goose chase for an ingredient a recipe calls for, or just skipped over an ingredient entirely, bewildered by where to begin? That's where this list of alternatives will come in handy! Knowing these ingredient swaps will allow you to cook for yourself and your loved ones in a way that satisfies everyone's dietary needs - and may save you an extra trip to the grocery store.
Baking Swaps
Butter = margarine = coconut oil
Heavy cream = coconut cream
Dairy milk = almond milk = any dairy-free milk
Sugar = brown sugar = date sugar
Almond flour = slivered almonds ground into very fine crumbs
1 egg = 3 tbs flax-seed meal plus 6 tbs water
Apple sauce = mashed banana = cooked pumpkin, sweet potato or carrot puree
Grated zucchini = grated carrot
Spaghetti squash = spiraled raw zucchini noodles = spiraled raw sweet potato noodles
Cooking Swaps
Yellow onions = red onions = pearl onions
Olive oil = canola oil = melted coconut oil
Almonds = pecans = walnuts
Soy sauce = tamari
Hoisin sauce = BBQ sauce
Cod = Chilean sea bass = any fatty fish
Halibut = flounder = haddock = any flaky white fish
Basil = cilantro = parsley
Capers = chopped pitted green olives
Kale = romaine lettuce
Glass noodles = thin rice noodles
Nutritional yeast = grated Parmesan
