Wine is the drink of the gods to be able to drink. There is a whole science devoted to wine etiquette, in which an appropriately selected snack is an important place. It is it that allows you to reveal the whole palette of tastes of the served wine, makes it possible to enjoy every touch of it.

Red Wine Snacks

The best combination with red wine is meat snacks: cheeses, vegetables and fish.

These can be dishes such as:

  • barbecue;
  • roast from game;
  • pizza or lasagna;
  • vegetable stew;
  • just fried meat, etc.

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To red dry wine

Dry red wine is a rather unpretentious drink, to which you can serve meat with various spices. Beef medallions will be a great option.

To prepare them, you need to prepare the following products:

  • beef tenderloin - 300 g;
  • a mixture of peppers - 1/3 tsp;
  • table salt - to taste;
  • olive oil - 2 tbsp. l .;
  • cognac - 50 ml.

Important. Salt should be taken ordinary - not small and not iodized. This will make the meat more juicy.

The method of preparation of medallions:

  1. Prepare the meat by cutting off all the films and tendons from it, rinsing and drying the product.
  2. Cut the tenderloin into strips whose thickness does not exceed 5 cm.
  3. Roll up the layers in the form of rolls, and then gently press down each product with your palm to get a kind of round medallions.
  4. Pepper the blanks and salt.
  5. For greater certainty, you can fasten the sides with a thread or wrap the meat in narrow pieces of foil.
  6. To process the obtained "jewelry" with oil, put in a preheated pan with a small amount of fat.
  7. Fry on each side for 3 minutes, then sprinkle with brandy and set fire.
  8. Send the dish to the oven for 7-10 minutes at a temperature of 200 ° C, laying out the portions on a wire rack.

The larger the meat medallions, the longer they need to bake. But you should not exceed the time of 10 minutes so that the dish retains its juiciness and richness of taste.

The appetizer is ready for wine. You can serve it on a plate with fresh vegetables.

What to serve with red semi-sweet / semi-dry wine

An appetizer for wines can be almost any, but it is better to give preference to light dishes. It can be game, cheeses, seafood, fruits, cheeses and even desserts.

The first version of the snack is baked breast, for the preparation of which you need to have:

  • chicken breast - 500 g;
  • salt and spices;
  • vegetable oil;
  • garlic - 2 cloves;
  • mustard.

Step-by-step preparation:

  1. Incise the breast in several places.
  2. Mix salt, prepared mustard and pepper.
  3. Grease the meat with this mixture.
  4. Paste the garlic into the resulting "pockets".
  5. Wrap the blanks in foil.
  6. Bake in the oven for 15 minutes.
  7. Expand the breast, grease it with oil, continue cooking for another 5 minutes.

An appetizer for red semisweet chicken wine is ready.

The second option is a canapé with cheese and seafood.

For cooking you need:

  • cheese - 200 g;
  • olives - 1 can;
  • boiled shrimp;
  • spicy crustacean sauce made from mayonnaise, garlic and lemon.

First of all, you need to prepare the sauce:

  1. 50 ml of mayonnaise mixed with 1 tsp. lemon juice.
  2. Grind ½ head of peeled garlic.
  3. Add it to the mixture, seasoning to taste with salt and pepper.

Important. Place boiled shrimp in the prepared sauce so that they are soaked. This will take at least 30 minutes.

  1. Cheese cut into small cubes. It is best to use mold varieties. But the creamy types should be discarded.
  2. String a piece of cheese on a skewer, followed by olive, then shrimp (dried with napkins from the sauce).
  3. Finish the construction with a cube of cheese.

The third option is fruit on skewers.

For them, you need to peel and cut the following fruits into pieces:

  • banana;
  • mango;
  • an Apple;
  • pear.

The fourth option is a dessert with ice cream.

It will require:

  • ice cream (regular ice cream) - 200 g;
  • sugar - 3 tbsp. l .;
  • strawberries - 150 g;
  • cookies (Jewelry or Anniversary) - 3 pcs.

Dessert preparation:

  1. Beat strawberries and sugar.
  2. Crush the cookies into crumbs.
  3. Put in a transparent glass in layers: cookies, mashed strawberries, ice cream, strawberry composition.

Snacks that go with a red sweet drink

Red sweet wine can be drunk even without snacks. But if this becomes necessary, fatty protein dishes, citrus fruits and desserts with a minimum sugar content are best suited to the drink.

One of the best options are red fish dishes. For example, baked trout.

To do this, prepare:

  • fresh trout - 3 pcs.;
  • ground pepper - 1 tsp;
  • salt - 1.5 tsp;
  • rosemary - 3 branches;
  • turnip onion - 2 heads;
  • butter - goes to grease trout.

Cooking:

  1. Clean fish, cut fins and wash carcass.
  2. Cut the onion into rings and place on a baking sheet.
  3. Add salt and pepper to the trout, put on top of the onion.
  4. Melt the butter and grease the fish with it.
  5. Place a sprig of rosemary in each abdomen.
  6. Bake in the oven for 15 minutes at a temperature of no more than 200 ° C.

White Wine Appetizer Recipes

Appetizer for white wine can be quite varied. These are dishes that include seafood, veal, poultry. A special place is given to salads, in which you can collect several of these ingredients at once.

To white semisweet wine

With semi-sweet white wine, you can eat a variety of products, starting with meat dishes, ending with slicing from cheeses of different varieties.

For valuable guests, you can serve a seafood salad:

  • mussels - 200 g;
  • shrimp - 150 g;
  • carcasses of squid - 2 pcs.;
  • olives - ½ banks;
  • garlic - 1 clove;
  • salt and pepper - to taste;
  • parsley - at will;
  • lemon juice - 1 tbsp. l .;
  • vegetable oil - to taste.

Step-by-step preparation:

  1. Boil mussels and shrimp.
  2. Cut the squid into rings and fry in a pan, a little salt and pepper.
  3. Chop olives and greens.
  4. Prepare dressing from crushed garlic, oil, pepper, salt and lemon juice.
  5. Put greens and olives in the sauce.
  6. Place a layer of squid on the dish.
  7. Divide the shrimp and mussels into pieces, mix with olives and herbs, put the composition on a dish on top of the squid.
  8. The food is cool.

An appetizer for white semisweet wine is ready.

To a dry drink

The best dish for serving white dry wine is fish and vegetable dishes.

You can cook salmon under a fur coat, which will require:

  • salmon - fillet about 400 g;
  • lemon - 2 pcs.;
  • tomatoes - 300 g;
  • salt;
  • basil - 3-4 branches;
  • white or black pepper;
  • vegetable oil.

Step-by-step preparation:

  1. Cut the salmon into several portions, grease with salt and pepper.
  2. Squeeze lemon juice on the fish, leave the product for pickling for a quarter of an hour.
  3. Peel the tomatoes and chop them into small pieces.
  4. Remove the flesh of the lemon and also chop.
  5. Chop the basil.
  6. Mix all ingredients except fish, pepper and salt.
  7. Grease the foil with oil.
  8. Put each portion of fish on a separate sheet of foil.
  9. Place a mixture of lemon, basil and tomatoes on top.
  10. Wrap foil, bake fish on wire rack for 10 minutes.

Fruit and berry varieties of the drink

This wine is considered the easiest and most refined. To reveal all the versatility of aromas will help the right snack, which should be delicate and refined.

Grilled lemon mozzarella is one of those dishes that is considered ideal for serving summer wine.

The following components are required for cooking:

  • small zucchini - 2 pcs.;
  • lemon juice - ½ tsp;
  • olive oil - 1.5 tbsp. l .;
  • chili pepper - 1/4 pc.;
  • garlic - ½ clove;
  • salt;
  • basil greens - 0.5 tbsp. l

To prepare snacks you need:

  • mozzarella - 150 g;
  • lemon peel - 1 tsp;
  • lemon juice - 0.5 tbsp. l .;
  • sugar - 1 tsp;
  • olive oil - 3 tbsp. l .;
  • salt.

First you need to cook mozzarella:

  1. Cut the cheese into pieces.
  2. Mix grated zest, sugar, salt, lemon juice and oil.
  3. Put the dairy product in a plate and pour the resulting marinade.
  4. Leave the food in a cool place for 30-40 minutes to insist.

Cooking zucchini:

  1. Chop the garlic and add oil.
  2. Add salt, lemon juice.
  3. Grind pepper and basil.
  4. Zucchini cut into long thin slices.
  5. Salt vegetables a little, fry on both sides in a pan.
  6. Spread the golden plates of zucchini on the dish in layers.
  7. Grease each layer with garlic sauce and sprinkle with basil and pepper.
  8. Cooled zucchini fall on a plate with mozzarella.

Hastily

Among the dishes that can be whipped up for serving to wine, all kinds of sandwiches can be distinguished. Depending on what wine will be on the table, choose the ingredients for the snack.

The best option, which is also universal, is a dish with cheese and red fish. It can be served in the usual sandwich form, in a decorated canapes, as well as in tartlets.

Cheese canapes:

  • cheese - preferably with mold;
  • cracker;
  • slightly salted salmon.

Cut the ingredients into appropriate cubes, string onto a skewer. For the original taste, you can add grapes.

Another winning option is tartlet with pate:

  • chicken pate;
  • tartlets;
  • cheese;
  • grapes.

Put the paste in tartlets, place a cube of cheese and a berry on top.

Wine snacks

Since wine is most often drunk in the evenings, the snack should be light. It can be vegetables or cheeses.

You can cook baked mixed vegetables:

  • Bulgarian pepper - 1 pc. each color;
  • zucchini - 1 pc.;
  • tomatoes - 4 pcs.;
  • onion - 1 head;
  • garlic and herbs - to taste;
  • juice of half a lemon;
  • oil;
  • salt and spices.

Cooking Assorted:

  1. Cut all the vegetables into slices, chop the onion in half rings.
  2. Put everything in a baking dish, salt and pepper.
  3. Add chopped garlic and herbs.
  4. Pour everything with lemon juice and oil, mix, cover with foil.
  5. Bake for about 20 minutes.
  6. Open the paper and let the vegetables brown.

A light snack is ready for wine.

In order for the wine to bring real pleasure, you need to drink it with the right snack, in a good mood and with nice people.

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