Blogmas Day 6 | 5 Ways You Can Use Red Wine in Your Festive Cooking This Christmas
Welcome to Blogmas day 6! I'll be publishing a festive blog post everyday on the run up to Christmas Day, so keep checking back for some more seasonal content. Today, I'll be telling you what you can use your red wine for over the festive period in your cooking, whether it be for Christmas dinner or for a wealth of occasions across the winter season.
1. Enhance your Christmas dinner
Red wine does wonders for cooking, no matter what it is you might be whipping up. Not everyone likes turkey, so if you're doing a beef or a lamb joint instead, then a good 350ml of red wine (depending on the size of the meat joint) will cook it up nicely and give it some amazing flavour.
Here are a few red wine recipes you can make, not just at Christmas, but throughout the winter season. Also, you can use the stock afterwards to make up your Christmas gravy, which brings us nicely onto our next purpose for red wine at Christmas...gravies and sauces.
2. Add depth to gravies & sauces
Red wine can be added to gravies and sauces, not just to pour on your Christmas dinner, but on any meal that you choose to make on the run up to the big day. Make sure you look up a delicious red wine gravy recipe just to make sure you're not using more than you need to (we all know it's mandatory to have a sneaky glass of it while you're cooking, haha!).
3. Infuse vegetables with flavour
Just as you'd add it to stock to cook up meat joints, red wine can be used to infuse otherwise boring vegetables. This is especially effective when cooking root vegetables, including carrots. Brussels sprouts are also partial to a glow-up. Much like red wine gravies, look up a recipe for red wine-infused vegetables to get the balance just right.
4. Create some delightful desserts
Red wine is often used in things like fruit compotes and even jellies. Much like brandies and sweet sherries, the right red wine can give your festive desserts a delicious kick, and it's far easier than you might have otherwise thought. Look up some red wine dessert recipes that you can make this Christmas, as they'd have been tried and tested.
5. Make mulled wine
Mulled wine is a classic beverage enjoyed at Christmas and it's just so easy to make. Pour the entire bottle into a saucepan or into your slow cooker, chop up some fruit and throw it all in together, than leave to simmer. Never boil mulled wine! Take a look at my classic homemade mulled wine recipe here!
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I hope you enjoyed this blog post? Let me know in the comments below what you like to use red wine for in your cooking and I'll see you all again tomorrow for Blogmas day 7!
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