When your favorite bottle of olive oil is down to the last drop, or your stir-fry dinner plan is thwarted when you discover you're out of canola oil, butter is a natural substitute. Butter is one of the easiest swaps for cooking oils that we know, and it brings tons of flavor to everything it touches.
A good rule of thumb for this substitution: Replace about ¾ of the butter in a recipe with olive, canola, or vegetable oil (if the recipe calls for 1 cup butter, use ¾ cup oil). If the recipe calls for melted butter, though, you can swap the ingredients in equal amounts — there's no need to adjust your ratios.
How to Substitute: Swap 1 cup of butter with 1 cup of ghee. Note: Ghee has a low melting point. So if you use it to make biscuits or cookies, be sure to properly chill the dough before baking. 2. Margarine. Hear me out here - margarine is low-cost, readily available, and was literally made to be a butter substitute.
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