What relatively inexpensive red wine would be best with the following recipe and cooking in general?
I am seeking a red wine to keep in the house strictly for cooking, yet I have always been told you should cook with a wine you would drink–I don’t drink alcohol at all do to medical conditions therefor I have no idea what tastes good, etc.
Broiled, Butterflied Chicken
Recipe courtesy of Alton Brown
Show: Good Eats
Episode: A Bird in the Pan
1 1/2 teaspoons black peppercorns
4 garlic cloves, minced
1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
1 lemon, zested
Extra virgin olive oil
Onions, carrots and celery cut into 3 to 4-inch pieces
3 to 4-pound broiler/fryer chicken
1 cup red wine
8 ounces chicken stock
2 to 3 sprigs thyme
Canola oil
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9 comments a "What relatively inexpensive red wine would be best with the following recipe and cooking in general?"
Just sub chicken stock, veggie stock, or water for the red wine. You don’t have to use it.
A dry (not sweet) Marsala Wine would be delicious. A Cabernet, Merlot or Burgundy Wine would be much more stronger in flavor, if you prefer. The alcohol in the wine will burn (cook) out leaving the just the flavor. I have stored wines corked in my pantry for more than 2 weeks and they did not go bad (vinegar).
It is correct that you should cook with a wine that you would want to drink! The best red wine for this recipe would be a nice, dry red but since it is going into a poultry dish I would avoid something really heavy like a Cabernet.
Perhaps try a Malbec from the Mendoza region of Argentina. Many of the good ones are relatively inexpensive. They are dry, but fairly light bodied thus great for cooking.
I recommend Almos Malbec- retails for about $9.99
Also- as a side note. Once you open a bottle of red wine (or any wine for that matter) it will begin to go bad within just a few days thus wouldn’t be great to cook with. You should use the wine within 48 hours.
If you really want to use the wine, buy a bottle of Fetzer Valley Oaks Cabernet or Merlot. It is very drinkable and I cook with it all the time.
I don’t know where you are but the cost is under ten dollars in most places.
yellowtail merlot
its like 12.00 a bottle and its good for drinking and cooking
If you don’t drink wine, you might not like the way it tastes in food.
That recipe would work good with a white wine too — Chardonay.
But, a better wine to try is Marsala, sweet or dry is good (I’ve cooked with both and actually prefer using the sweet).
If you’re not going to drink the red wine at all, then a bottle is going to go to waste. You’re only using a cup for this recipe. Wine will only keep for 2-3 days before the taste is off. If you think you will cook often with wine, I would get a boxed wine – Hardy’s Merlot or Shiraz is a good one. The box is equal to 3 bottles of wine. Cost is $15. What’s nice about the box is that it will keep for a long, long time. If you think that you won’t cook with wine so much- go with a very inexpensive wine like Sutter Home, Woodbridge, Barefoot Cellars, Yellowtail, Hogue, Walnut Crest
a typical 7-9 $ bottle of wine is good it does not have to be a good one for cooking but don’t use the cheapest either
If i have any trouble what wine? I do it like my grandma — Bordeaux. No I am not from France — I am from Germany.
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