Can I replace chianti with zinfandel in a sweet potato glaze recipe?

[4_Legs_Good]

This sweet potato recipe is the only one I've ever found that I actually like, but I bought the wine before I found the lost recipe, so now if I go out and buy a chianti too, I'll end up drinking both bottles and have one hell of a hangover.

So, can I just replace the chianti with a zinfandel.

I hardly ever cook with wine (too busy drinking it), so I'm clueless.

David

[Zuni]

1. not really

as they taste completely different

[4_Legs_Good]

2. Alrighty, guess I'll be drunk while glazing then!

Thanks! Sucks to be such a cooking-wine novice!

David

[Auggie]

3. Go ahead. It should hardly make a difference.

[old mark]

4. Use the required amount of Zinfandel, drink the rest

while eating.
Might be a difference, but who cares?


mark

[FKA MNChimpH8R]

5. Can't imagine why not

They're both dry red wines.

[peruban]

6. Chianti's much better for drinking than cooking, IMO. n/t

[harmonicon]

7. I wouldn't do it

They're pretty different. Drinking both bottles sounds like a good solution to me....

[leeroysphitz]

8. Only if the zin comes out of a box. n/t

[lightningandsnow]

9. Only if you're having it with liver.

And fava beans.