Urgent. Cooking for recovering alcoholic. Substitute for white wine please!

[Reallyimeanreally2022]

Fright in middle of cooking a Ragu with pork and veal (it’s a blonde Ragu ie no tomato’s and uses milk)

Recipe call for 500 ml of white wine

What’s a brilliant substitute for this kind of meaty pasta sauce

Thanks so much

Apple juice or stock

Please no one say it will burn off etc etc

I’ve promised him and wife. I’m not going to even contemplate doing otherwise

Surely the cooking will burn off the alcohol so just use wine?

Stock

There won't be any alcohol left after it's cooked off.

@piglet81

Quantity ratio if 500ml required?

Presumably not 500ml of apple juice?
Thank you!

I have promised wife and him.

Please can we just respect that

Chicken stock or vegetable stock ?

What do you have on hand?

I'd say some verjuice but that's a bit niche.

500 ml is also a lot!

(Although tbh the alcohol would probably burn off in the cooking. I understand not wanting any booze to come near it though, I’m the circumstances.)

A really good quality stock.

Don't use alcohol free wine.

Stock will be fine. Maybe a drop of balsamic to replace the acid?

@Reallyimeanreally2022

I have promised wife and him.

Please can we just respect that

Look at the time stamps of the posts. You might have wanted to mention your promise in your op.

I'd go for stock. Apple juice might be too sweet.

I do chicken stock and lemon juice if I don’t have white wine in. It’s not the same, but it’s ok.

A very generous couple of glugs of cheap balsamic vinegar. - sweet and tart like dry white wine

Sorry, cross post! I’d go for similar quantity since presumably you need the volume of liquid. But maybe half and half juice and stock? Bit of balsamic or Worcester sauce for depth of flavour?

www.healthline.com/nutrition/wine-substitutes#TOC_TITLE_HDR_8

More ideas here OP.

What about apple cider vinegar and chicken stock?

I do chicken stock and lemon juice if I don’t have white wine in

Yes - my vote's with this.

An alcohol free wine would work perhaps? Or if not, grape juice and a splash of lemon juice to counteract the sweetness of grape juice?

I’d choose a different recipe. There are lots of lovely things to make that don’t include alcohol. A splash you could replicate but 500mls of anything else will dramatically change the flavour.

More stock and a dash of vinegar.

Fgs irrespective of me promising him and wife

Someone i know almost likely himself, lost the family home, practically destroyed his family - is slowly emerging as the wonderful man he was pre drink.

Even if I hadn’t have promised @Aquamarine1029, I still wouldn’t have put half a litre of white wine in a dish for the 3 of us.

Anyway - thank you all so much. Re the stick… chicken? (It’s pork and veal)

almost killed himself