How to Reduce Fat in a Recipe
Lower Fat Substitutions for Cooking
Shortening, butter, or oil: Replace half of any with applesauce. As an example if a recipe calls for one cup of shortening, replace with ½ cup shortening and ½ cup applesauce. You may need to cut baking time by 25%.
Eggs: Use an egg substitute or use 2 eggs whites for every whole egg required. If baking do this with half the eggs to avoid a tough result.
Whole Milk: You can freely replace any milk product with a lower fat version.
Butter or Oil to Prevent Sticking: Substitute with a cooking spray or broth if frying.
Heavy Cream: In baking substitute heavy cream with light cream or half & half.
Cream Cheese: Replace with a lower fat version or try Neufchatel cheese. In baking the no fat version has the tendency to produce an inferior product.
Sour Cream: Substitute with equal amount of non-flavored yogurt.
Evaporated Milk: Evaporated milk is also available as evaporated skim milk, look for it on the label.
Block Cheese: Replace block cheese with a lower fat version. Do not use no fat cheese in recipes that require baking as it does not melt.
Shredded Cheese: Use a sharper version and simply cut the amount by 25%. The taste will be extremely close with less fat.
Ohio State University ExtensionModifying a Recipe to be Healthierohioline.osu.edu
Purdue ExtensionTop 20 Healthy Recipe Ingredient Substitutionswww.cfs.purdue.edu
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