Substitutes For Buttermilk: Three Good Alternatives

Buttermilk: These alternatives exist

If you don’t have buttermilk on hand, but your recipe calls for this ingredient, you can substitute other foods.

1. If you don’t have buttermilk at home, you can replace the ingredient with the same amount of yogurt. So if you need 250 milliliters of buttermilk, use 250 grams of yogurt instead.
2. Regular milk is also a good alternative. However, you need an acidifier here, which you must first add to the milk. If you need 250 milliliters of buttermilk, add a tablespoon of lemon juice or vinegar to 235 milliliters of milk and let everything stand for about 15 minutes. The milk will thicken a bit during this time and make a good substitute.
3. If neither yogurt nor milk is available, you can use kefir as an alternative ingredient. Here you can replace the buttermilk again 1:1. By the way, you can also make kefir yourself.