Budget counterparts expensive products

Pollack instead of cod, cucumber instead of capers. Many expensive ingredients in the recipes have available replacements. Find out more from this article.

One way to save on food - replacing expensive ingredients more accessible when it allows the formulation. Gourmets visit that affected the authenticity of taste. But cooking is wonderful flexibility: a creative approach creates new dishes.

We offer you to compare some of the products and their cost.

Attention! Prices in the article are approximate and apply to the central part of Russia at the time of writing the material.

Meat and fish

The cost of these products increased markedly. Most chicken available. She can be replaced by fish and red meat. At the same time more profitable to buy the whole carcass (chilled -. 100-130 rubles / kg), it can be prepared from both the first and second course. The most expensive - chicken breasts, from 150 € / kg.. Therefore, if you want to fillet, do not be lazy - cut the flesh from the legs. They are cheaper.

Expensive beef in many recipes can be replaced by pork. It is important to understand the cut: parts of the carcass are different in taste and price. The most expensive notch (300 rubles. / Kg) and ham (≈280-300 rub. / Kg). If you do not plan to cook the meat in large pieces, then take podcherevok (≈230 rbl. / Kg). This meat with streaky bacon, and sometimes small rib bone. It is suitable for stuffing and many meat dishes.

How to choose the meat

Most notably risen fish. The price tag on a fresh red fish starts from 300 rubles. / Kg. But many varieties have a similar taste, and therefore interchangeable.

• Pollack (≈150 RUB. / Kg) instead of cod (≈300 RUB. / Kg).
• Flounder (≈100 RUB. / Kg) instead of halibut (≈180 RUB. / Kg).
• Pangasius (≈130 RUB. / Kg) instead of haddock (≈200 RUB. / Kg).
• Sprat (≈50 rub. / Kg) instead of anchovies (≈250 RUB. / Kg).

How to choose fish

Vegetables and herbs

To conserve fresh vegetables and fruit can be substituted for canned. For example, to bake meat with pineapple in the oven, do not have to use fresh fruit (≈200 rub.) - the desired acidity give the dish and canned pineapple (from ≈50 rub.). With the responsibilities of fresh tomatoes (≈130 rbl. / Kg) in many recipes fine job tomato paste (from ≈60 rub.).

Also to save money will allow the replacement of the exotic for our agriculture vegetables more affordable. In recipes halophytes can often find capers. This tight buds of a bush of the same name. They were brought from southern Europe and sold in pickled form. The price tag on the 250-gram jar starts from 100 rubles. In taste capers similar properties to the usual pickles, which are much more affordable.

Celery (≈150 RUB. / Kg) can be replaced cabbage (≈40 rub. / Kg), marjoram (≈130 RUB. / Kg) of dried oregano, saffron and (≈400 RUB. / Kg) combination of turmeric and paprika.

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Salad dishes

Sesame, rapeseed, linseed and other unusual vegetable oils They have a number of useful properties (for example, sesame seed oil has beneficial effects on the heart and goes well with meat and seafood), but significantly more expensive sunflower. The price of refined sunflower oil starts from 60-70 rubles, while sesame cheaper than $ 100 is not found. Therefore, if you want to save, prepare dishes and refill ordinary sunflower oil.

Recently, the hosts are also popular soy and pomegranate sauce, balsamic vinegar. These products are not cheap, as is most often imported. For example, the birthplace of balsamic vinegar - Italy. A bottle of 200 ml capacity costs from 200 rubles and above. Wine vinegar is half the price, but can cope with balsamic gastronomic functions. Especially if it is to insist on the grass.

Many recipes also need wine for dishes juiciness and flavor make halftones. Cooking can buy wine in the Tetra Pak cartons (it is cheaper), or replace it with the available fluid. So, instead of red wine suitable berry juice, and instead of white - chicken broth.

On a note

1. Freshly squeezed lemon juice can replace citric acid powder.
2. If a prescription is needed melted chocolate, then it can be replaced with cocoa powder, diluted in vegetable oil (3 tbsp. l. Cocoa + 1 tbsp. l. oil = 1 bar).
3. Egg powder (from ≈30 rbl. / Kg), egg products, can be used instead of eggs in the preparation of various sauces, homemade mayonnaise and even omelet. Also, it is widely used in the confectionery business. By the way, in the baking eggs can be replaced as baking powder, vinegar extinguished (1 hr. l. = 1 egg).

What budget analogues advancers food you know? Share your experiences in the comments.