Sparkling wine left?
Quickly try these delicious ideas
Created: 01/01/2022, 08:19 AM
By: Anne Tessin
Sparkling wine is great for cooking.
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Sparkling wine is part of the toast on New Year's Eve.
If there is something left over and you don't enjoy drinking champagne, these ideas can help you use it up.
Sparkling wine is not for everyone, but for many people it is still part of toasting.
But what do you do with the leftovers if something is left over?
If you ask yourself this question after New Year's Eve, then these ideas are sure to come to the right place.
Champagne cabbage with leftover sparkling wine
Sauerkraut is a popular side dish, especially in winter.
The variant with champagne tastes extra fine, but
the popular dish can also be conjured up
with dry sparkling wine
.
For four servings you need:
1 thick slice of bacon
2 tbsp sunflower oil
1 teaspoon of sugar
1 onion
1 kg of sauerkraut
150 ml sparkling wine
500 ml vegetable stock
1 tbsp applesauce
5 peppercorns
2 juniper berries
1 bay leaf
80 ml of cream
30 grams of butter
salt
sugar
How to prepare the champagne cabbage
Fry the bacon on both sides in a saucepan with oil.
Sprinkle some sugar on top and let it caramelize lightly.
Peel and dice the onion finely, put it in the saucepan and sweat it briefly.
Add the sauerkraut and sweat it a little too.
Delete the whole thing with the sparkling wine and let it boil off almost completely.
Then pour in the vegetable stock and let the sauerkraut simmer over medium heat for about half an hour to 35 minutes.
After about twenty minutes add the applesauce, the peppercorns, the pressed juniper berries and the bay leaf.
When the champagne cabbage has finished cooking, take out the spices and bacon and season again with salt and sugar.
Finally, refine the cabbage with cream and butter.
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Replace white wine with sparkling wine
White wine is often used in the kitchen
to add
acidity and flavor
to
a dish
.
If you have dry sparkling wine left over, you can use it in the same way as wine.
Whether in a cream sauce, in French onion soup or in desserts - sparkling wine is excellent.
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Freeze sparkling wine as ice cubes
Would you like to use the leftover sparkling wine for cooking, but you can't use that much at once?
Sparkling wine in the open bottle doesn't last very long, so you can use this simple tip to help yourself:
Simply freeze the sparkling wine in ice cube molds.
As soon as the cubes are frozen through, you can transfer them to a freezer bag and then, if necessary, remove them individually and use them for cooking.
So you never have to throw away any leftover sparkling wine - it would be a shame to do so.
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