Cooking Recipes with Wine as a Key Ingredient
Wine is often a key ingredient in many recipes. Good cooks often add wine to enhance flavors and add complexity to a dish as wine can release different subtle flavors in food that might otherwise not be experienced. Adding wine can also tenderize, and add moisture. As a key ingredient, it’s a very good thing.
Generally, red wines are added to red meat dishes, red sauces, soups with beef stock, or root vegetables. Dry white wines are often used with light cream sauces, or fish and seafood. Sweet wines are at times key ingredients in recipes of sweet desserts, and you can even find recipes for baked goods, such as bread, which use wine.I found some more information here.
Using wine in a recipe takes a bit of skill that can be gained through experience. When you’re just beginning, go slow and start with simple dishes. When choosing a wine for your dish, only use a wine that you’d like to drink. Although it’s best not to go too cheap, save the really good stuff for your own enjoyment. You don’t have to use a premium wine in your cooking. Wines labeled as cooking wine can be a bit salty at times, so adjust your recipe to take that into account. Done right, adding wine to a recipe can take your dish from merely good to “That’s excellent. What’s your secret?”