Cooking with Rosé
Any suggestions on what to do with nearly a full bottle of this? It's a rose from pinot noir grapes and a Christmas gift from my boss. I'm usually okay to drink wines, but not a big fan, and this stuff is DRY DRY DRY.
White wines I'll usually use in cooking as pan sauces or fish and red wines always go in stews for me. But which way should I go with this one?
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8 Comments:
Poached pears.
I use a good glug or two of whatever opened wine I have on hand for spaghetti sauce--red, white, pink, sweet, dry, cheap, expensive (rare in our house), still or sparkling.
betteirene at 1:13AM on 09/09/09
Add it to pasta water for one of the pasta cooked in wine recipes on this site? Although, if it's dry you can probably use it like you would a white wine.
Another thought - turn it into sangria. That way you can flavor it with fruit and adjust the sweetness with a simple syrup to one that you'd find more enjoyable.
Amandarama at 7:34AM on 09/09/09
I would say send it to me...but in many places you'd wine. There is no absolute reason that white wine has to go in a fish sauce any more than you have to drink it with fish, ditto red. It's a dry wine. Color is secondary, from a cooking standpoint.
lemons at 12:19PM on 09/09/09
I've used wine to replace the milk in my standard cupcake recipe. Very fruity and yummy!
VerySmallAnna at 3:59PM on 09/09/09
Dry Pinot Noir rosés are absolutely wonderful and good ones can be on the top end of the rosé price range. Trade it with a wine lover for something you like! But I'm guessing you already opened it...
You could use it as a pan sauce for salmon, where the color won't be an issue, or for a stewed chicken dish--think coq au vin without the dark sauce. It would probably work well for a braised pork dish, say something that included some apples and dried cherries.
If you're not going to use it in the next day or two, just freeze it in an ice cube tray, pop the frozen cubes in to a plastic bag, and keep it in the freezer for when you just need an ounce of wine here or there.
Benitowine at 7:08PM on 09/09/09
use it to cook a tuna antipasto or a stewed salmon...
MadelynRodriguez at 1:24AM on 09/10/09
Thanks for all the ideas! I think I'll try the poached pears! My parents send me home with a bunch every time I visit!
Yukiyummy at 2:53PM on 09/10/09
Sangria granita.
Do it. You'll thank me later.
oh_no_eric at 2:51AM on 09/11/09