Albarino Food Pairing

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Here is a list of food items that will pair extremely well with Albarino wines: Antipasto, baked goat cheese, caviar, smoked fish or shellfish, chicken, goose or vegetable pate’s, prosciutto •        Gorgonzola or Maytag blue cheeses, cottage, cream or fromage blanc cream style cheeses, goat cheese, mozzarella, mild cheddar, Fontina, Gouda, Jarlsberg, Swiss and Brie or Camembert •        Bouillabaisse, chicken or turkey soup, New England Clam Chowder, Corn Chowder, oyster stew, vegetable soup, seafood bisque or chowder and vichyssoise •         Chinese chicken salad, crab or shrimp louis, endive salad, green salad with smoked chicken or trout, lobster salad, pasta or potato salad, Waldorf salad, salads with balsamic vinaigrette, Nicoise salad with briny olives and fish •         fish and chips and vegetarian wraps •        Fried or saute’ed calamari, halibut grilled, saute’ed or in butter/cream sauce, grilled or roasted monkfish, saute’ed red snapper, rock cod baked, deep fried or saute’ed, salmon carpaccio, cedar planked salmon, baked or saute’ed sea bass, seafood brochette or paella, sole almandine, sole in butter/cream/lemon sauce, swordfish baked or saute’ ed, tilapia saute’ed, trout grilled, saute’ed or smoked •        Saute’ed abalone, clams in cream or white sauce, clams or crab steamed/boiled, lobster Newberg, grilled or steamed/boiled lobster, mussels steamed or in wine sauce, raw oysters on the half shell, poached oysters, oysters Rockefeller, scallops in garlic and olive oil, lemon or wine sauce, shrimp saute’ed with garlic or lemon, soft shell crab •        Chicken in butter/cream/white wine sauce, lemon chicken, chicken baked, broiled, roasted or fried, chicken pot pie, roasted cornish hen or turkey •        Roasted game hen, pheasant or quail •        Paella, polenta with butter and cheese, steamed white rice, risotto with vegetables or seafood •        Avocado, carrots glazed or saute’ed, corn on the cob, roasted garlic, creamed spinach, acorn or butternut squash, mashed or pureed sweet potatoes, tofu •        gnocchi with butter, sage, cheese, cream, pesto or seafood sauce, vegetable lasagna, macaroni and cheese, pasta with cheese, cream, alfredo, clam, basil pesto, or seafood sauce •        ceviche, curry chicken or seafood, chicken or shrimp Chow Fun/Mein, Donburi, egg rolls, fried rice, garlic chicken, gumbo, moussaka, orange chicken, pad thai, pan-blackened fish, seafood with coconut milk, spring roll, chicken or fish Sukiyaki, Sweet and Sour Pork, chicken tajines or tandoori tempura •        Almond tart, angel food cake, baked, poached or fresh apples/pears, cheesecake, cre’me brule’e, cre’me caramel, dessert cre’pes, baked figs, baked or fresh peaches/apricots, apple, pear, peach, apricot and especially lemon pies, pound cake, rice pudding, lemon, lime, orange, tropical fruits

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