15 Healthy Ways To Cook With Leftover Wine
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It’s a shame to let wine go to waste, especially good wine. Once the fruit of the vine has turned, it can be rather sour, but you can still cook with wine long after you’ve opened it — and it will add its unique flavor to your food, without the sour notes. Red wine can do a tremendous job of making rich, soothing foods even richer and white wine can make salad dressing crisper and pasta tangier. Here are 15 healthy ways to cook with leftover wine.
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Winesicles
Boil the wine with a little bit of sugar, let it cool and mix in raspberries, blueberries, and/or strawberries. Pour the mixture into little paper cups with a popsicle stick in the middle. Put your creation in the freezer and you have a refreshing, buzz-inducing, low-calorie treat.
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Vegan white wine sauce and clams
Substitute quinoa flour for the white flour, and unsweetened almond milk for the whole milk, and you can have a delicious, low-calorie vegan white wine sauce and clams dish.
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Wine braised vegetables
Braise some broccolini with white wine, garlic, and olive oil. The white wine takes the place of lemon here and gives you a truly flavorful veggie side.
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White wine panna cotta
Panna cotta can be heavy on the cream, but not when you use this recipe for Greek Yogurt Pannacotta with white wine syrup. It’s light, protein-filled, and oh so tasty.
Quinoa risotto
Risotto doesn’t have to be loaded with cream and nutrient-deficient white rice. Swap out the rice and swap in fiber-full quinoa and make a sauce with white wine, parmesan, lemon juice, olive oil, and herbs. This recipe will show you.
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Wine bruschetta
Mix chopped tomatoes with lemon juice, parsley, 1/4 cup of white wine and garlic for a savory and light appetizer bruschetta.
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Poached pears
You can really poach any type of fruit you like in white or red wine, but summer fruits like peaches, pears and apricots taste delicious soaked in white wine.
Red wine tomato sauce
If you make a red wine reduction and mix it with some chunky chopped tomatoes, basil, salt, pepper and a tablespoon of olive oil you’ll have a delicious tomato sauce.
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Baked beans in wine
Baked beans are usually made with vinegar, but white wine tastes just as great. This recipe makes a batch with bacon that’s the perfect combination of sweet and salty.
Drunken spaghetti
Drunken spaghetti calls for a full bottle of good, dry Italian red wine, a few tablespoons of olive oil and chopped garlic, pepper, salt, and parmesan. Then add in anything else you like from veggies to seafood.
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Wine jelly
Jelly can be a light treat, especially when you make it at home and monitor the sugar. Plus you can mix in raspberries or grapes. Here is an easy recipe for this treat.
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Moscato Smoothie
Forget mimosas. Moscato smoothies are the new Brunch beverage. Mix some Moscato with greek yogurt or coconut ice cream, some berries and some honey and you’ll have a tasty, refreshing drink to go with your eggs benedict.
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Chicken and mushrooms in white wine
A little white wine reduction with olive oil, salt and pepper taste delicious over white chicken breast and mushrooms.
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Red wine lentil salad
Mix a little red wine with red wine vinegar, olive oil and your herbs of choice to make a delicious dressing for a lentil salad.
