Top Tips on cook with wine

Cooking with wine, like drinking wine can add another dimension to a recipe. Cultivating and enhancing flavors while accentuating textures are the main incentives for adding wines to recipes.

Quick Tips for Cooking with Wine

How to Decide Which Wine to Use -Remember, it is only the alcohol that diminishes during the cooking process, not the poor quality or undesirable flavor.
Using Wines as a Spice
Alcohol and the Cooking Process -Keep in mind that not all of the alcohol will evaporate from the cooking process.
A Rule to Remember - Cooking with wine should be fun.

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Good Places to Put Wine in Your Food

1. When a recipe calls for water, replace the water with a favorite wine.
2. Stir in 1 to 2 tablespoons of a full-bodied red into brown gravy. Let simmer to create rich brown gravy for red meat.
3. Mix wine with your favorite oil to baste meat and poultry.
4. For meat dishes calling for wine, first heat the wine. Do not boil the wine, this will loose the flavor.
5. Adding cold wine tends to make meat tough, while warm wine helps tenderize it.
6. Dry red wines have better chemistry with heavier red meats.
7. Serve the same wine with dinner that you cooked with, as they will balance each other. If you prefer to use a fine wine during dinner, try to stay within the same wine family.

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Non-Alcohol Substitutions

White Wine Substitutions	Red Wine Substitutions
Non-alcoholic white wine	Non-alcoholic red wine
1/3 cup white grape juice + 1/2 tbsp. rice vinegar	1/2 cup purple grape juice + 1 tbsp. rice vinegar
White grape juice	Purple grape juice
Apple cider/juice	Vegetable stock
Vegetable stock	Cranberry juice
Water	Tomato juice
Chicken broth/bouillon/consommé	Grape jelly
Ginger ale	Water
White wine vinegar	Beef broth
	Red wine vinegar
	Liquid from canned mushrooms