Receipe says use 3 tbsp sherry - what can i use instead?

Juliav_2

Hi,



I am making a sauce for chicken and the receipe says use sherry. I can't afford to buy a bottle of sherry for just 3 tbsp worth. What do you think I could use as a substitute?

The sauce is going over battered chicken, red peppers and rice?

• 3 tbsp soy sauce
• 3 tbsp white wine vinegar
• 3 tbsp sherry
• 1 tbsp light soft brown sugar
• 1 tsp cornflour

Bongedone

This looks like a chinese recipe. I use vodka instead of the sherry.

squeaky

This site gives substitutes for all kinds of alcohol in recipes:-

http://gourmetsleuth.com/alcoholsubstitutes.htm

aycor

The sherry is a substitute for rice wine.
If you are going to do more chinese cooking invest in a small bottle of rice wine.
You can often get around christmas time a sherry glass and a miniature as a gift set available at the local off licence .......or go to your local and buy a glass of sherry and take it home to use !!!!!!!!!

kunekune

The really good thing with Chinese rice wine is that you are NEVER tempted to drink it ... and yet it is so useful for cooking.

morwenna

How about a miniature bottle? I use these for Xmas cakes - however, if you want to cook chinese style food often, a bottle of dry sherry won't go amiss

Juliav_2

thank you for all the ideas, also that website for alcohol subsititutes is now bookmarked - what a fab website. Thank you

cowbutt

aycor wrote: »

The sherry is a substitute for rice wine.
If you are going to do more chinese cooking invest in a small bottle of rice wine.

What aycor said. Available from your local south(-east) asian supermarket.