chicken marsala question

Littlemermaidklb · 08-09-2009, 10:43 AM

I made chicken marsala the other day and I'm trying to plug it into spark-recipes. They don't have marsala wine as an ingredient option to pick from, and the bottle doesn't give me calorie info either. Plus, since I'm cooking with it rather than drinking it... how the heck do I enter it? Since the alcohol cooks off, do I even really bother entering it? How many calories can 1.5 cups really add to a recipe that serves 6? That's 1/4C per serving (give or take), minus whatever cooks off. How would you experts handle this?

LisaS · 08-09-2009, 10:52 AM

USDA lists "alcoholic beverage, wine, dessert, sweet" for 1 fl oz as 47 cals, 4g CHO, 4.5g ALC

realcdn · 08-09-2009, 12:07 PM

I'd use what Lisa suggested. The alcohol make flash off, but there's still a fair amount of sugar in the wine. It's likely a higher number than actual, but I always prefer to be on the high side.