Chicken stock in place of beef???

carlamarie_2

So I'm on a no unnecessary spend pact (were in desperate times) and I'm trying to spend a max of £15 on food this week. My freezer and cupboards are pretty much full so it's just really potatoes, fruit, milk and bread I should need.

Tonight I am cooking Chinese beef with egg fried rice and HM naans. I have everything in for this except the beef stock cube! I have chicken, would you use it or do you think it would alter the taste too much?
The recipe has dark soy sauce, sherry, garlic, chilli and root ginger also. Would these mask the chickeny taste?
Or would you spend £1.50 on beef stock cubes?

Mojisola

I'd use the ones you have.

carlamarie_2

Thanks mojii think I'll go ahead and use the chicken one. Seems mad to use 10% of my budget on something that dissolves!

iris

Have you got any Worcester Sauce or HP sauce? I have used a squirt of these instead of beef stock cubes many times. HTH

carlamarie_2

Thanks iris I have both! How would. Go about that? (I've never heard of this method before)
I need 500ml of stock. So how much sauce would I use for this?

iris

carlamarie wrote: »

Thanks iris I have both! How would. Go about that? (I've never heard of this method before)
I need 500ml of stock. So how much sauce would I use for this?

I just add a squirt at a time to the fluid and then taste. I then just add more to suit my personal taste. HTH

Mojisola

iris wrote: »

Have you got any Worcester Sauce or HP sauce? I have used a squirt of these instead of beef stock cubes many times. HTH

I would use the chicken stock cube and then adjust the flavour with one of the sauces if it needs a bit more body.

AnnieO1234

I would never spend £1.50 on stock cubes not anymore. tesco or saints urns basics for twenty pence every time.

I wouldn't personally use chicken in place of beef, veg maybe but the flavours would be off.

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thriftylass

carlamarie wrote: »

Or would you spend £1.50 on beef stock cubes?

i wouldn't spend that much on stock cubes anyway There are cheaper ones and just as tasty (for future reference )

I would also just use the chicken stock cube or a vegetable one if you have.

Lilyplonk

It would matter more if you were making gravy to go with a Sunday Roast Beef Dinner ....................... but with lots of other flavours/seasonings in the dish that you're making, it'll hardly be noticeable - IF at all .

JodyBPM

Do you have Bovril or Marmite? This will make a beefy tasting stock, dissolved in water.