Friday, January 28, 2011

Cooking with Wine - Top 5 Recipes

By Corey Talbot


Wine can make a wonderful and sophisticated ingredient when a cook is preparing a full scale dish. There are many dishes that call for wine as an ingredient. The reason why people use wine as an ingredient for cooking, is because of the regions that most recipes come from that use wine. If wine is plentiful in a particular region, then it will become a very useful ingredient when someone is creating a recipe. These recipes have been enjoyed so much, that they spread all over their regions, and they travelled to various other countries that people from the region travelled to, and planted roots in.

Here is a look at some of those regionally based recipes that use wine, and that have spread to countries around the world:

1. Chicken Marsala: Chicken Marsala is a dish that uses Marsala wine. Marsala wine is a red wine that originates from Sicily. The dish itself employs slices of chicken, potatoes, and mushrooms. It tends to be a one pan recipe, and it is served with pasta. It's very hearty, and the Marsala wine gives the rich meal an additional warmth and pleasure to eat.

2. Fondue: Fondue in its traditional form, is a melted cheese dish that comes out of Switzerland. The dish uses white wine. The type of white wine that is used will vary from person to person, but it's recommended that if a person used wine for a Fondue recipe, they should use a very dry and sharp white wine.

3. Shrimp Scampi: Shrimp Scampi comes to us from Italy, and it is a very delicious and simple dish to make. It is made from Shrimps, butter, lemon, and garlic. If it is made with wine (and it usually is), then it will be made with a white wine. It would be good to use a dry wine that isn't too sweet, or that distracts the taste buds from the richness of the sauce, and of the shrimp.

4. Beef Bourguignon: This dish is known as Boeuf Bourguignon in French, as the dish comes to us from France. It is a wonderful, rich beef stew dish that is perfect for the colder months of the year. It can be created either in a Dutch oven, or with a slow cooker. It entails Burgundy wine as a major component of its broth. It also has beef stew meat, carrots and other types of vegetables for stewing. The beef is first coated in a little flour, and then seared. The seared meat and the sauted vegetables stew in the Burgundy broth.

5. Pasta in Clam Sauce: This is an Italian dish that is a simple pasta dish with clams, white wine, olive oil, and herbs. This is a wonderful dish to eat for lunch, or during the warmer months of the year, because it is very light.




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