Sangria
Hi guys. I am home sick today and cruising the boob tube. Michael Chiarello just made a sparkling sangria. I made sangria for a party last summer and it was just pathetic. Who has a blow your socks off sangria tip???
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15 Comments:
No recipe from me, I'm interested to see what the responses are. I think a lot of junk gets poured under that name. In Barcelona last year, we found that sangria seems to always have a little brandy in it.
lemons at 1:56PM on 06/02/08
@lemons - I hear what you are saying about what passes as sangria, my own attempt included. What did you find memorable about sangria in Barcelona?
izatryt at 2:24PM on 06/02/08
My cowriter Maxine just put up a post last week about sangria: http://chewonthatblog.com/2008/05/23/making-sangria-and-my-special-technique/
Hillary
Chew on That
Chew on That at 2:33PM on 06/02/08
What I remember particularly about it is that brandy! It gave the sangria more body, rounding out the flavors nicely. Hilary's pal Maxine's recipe looks pretty significant on that score. I am sure that the absolutely cheapest brandy probably would detract more than it adds, but there are, in Spain at least, some Spanish brandies that I think would be nice, but darned if I recall the names.
lemons at 2:41PM on 06/02/08
Yep, the brandy for sure. Here in Wisconsin, we're serious brandy drinkers, but I've had pretty decent sangrias with even mediocre brands.
The crappy sangrias I've had are ones where people were afraid to add sugar, thinking it would be too sweet. There's no need to go insane with it, but a little sugar rounds out the flavors and makes it much more enjoyable to drink, in my opinion.
BangieB at 2:52PM on 06/02/08
I looked at Maxine's post and it does look promising. I don't know that I would look for the cheapest brandy and I will look for a Spanish brandy. Hopefully we will see some additional viewpoints.
izatryt at 2:57PM on 06/02/08
Brandy and sugar, no additional viewpoints needed.
nelson5757 at 3:09PM on 06/02/08
@nelson - ;-D
izatryt at 3:28PM on 06/02/08
Though I haven't tried it (yet), there's a delicious-sounding/looking recipe for sparkling sangria in Cooking Light this month.
Otherwise, a good Rioja is the way to go for a red sangria, DEFINITELY do not leave out the brandy, and adding a little club soda, ginger ale, or 7up gives it a nice zing.
savecara at 3:39PM on 06/02/08
i loved the sparkling cava sangrias I had when I was in Spain last year. they're my favorites...
I've never been a brandy person, so never in my house we've used brandy to make sangria. But a sangria without a soda, sparkling water or 7UP it's just not a sangria.
Rioja wine or Cava + orange juice + lime juice + sparkling water or lemon/lime soda + sugar + sliced fruit.... that's it!!!
Madelyn
KarmaFreeCooking..
MadelynRodriguez at 4:13PM on 06/02/08
I'm not much of a brandy person, either. It was only when I started mentally discarding other possibilities for the rounded flavor that I figured it out. It's sort of like vanilla, the way it pushes other flavors forward.
lemons at 6:54PM on 06/02/08
I took Bobby Flay's recipe from FoodTV.com:
http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/recipes/recipe/0,,FOOD_9936_154,00.html
I get invited to a lot of parties now, that's all I'm going to say.
ultraviolet79 at 10:13PM on 06/02/08
Instead of brandy + sugar, I use Grand Marnier or Cointreau. Covers the sweetness and the alcohol push one gets from brandy, as well as spiking up the citrus flavor. Cheers!
rosezilla at 10:38PM on 06/02/08
Personally, it's the quality of the wine that makes a Sangria for me. If I liked the wine by itself, then I'll like it in my sangria, but if I didn't like it by itself, the sangria was bound to be disappointing as well.
blankplate at 3:29PM on 06/03/08
Our sangria is always poor man's sangria: orange soda and box wine. It's not half bad!
modysoul at 3:41PM on 06/03/08