Here is a list of food items that make an ideal pairing with
your Riesling wine provided by EatDrinkDine.com
and a few ideas of my own:
• BBQ or spicy chicken wings, crab cakes, foie gras,
smoked shellfish, smoked salmon or trout, cold cuts and
proscuitto with melons or fruits
• Gorgonzola, Maytag, Blue Cheeses, cottage, cream
cheese, Asiago, Parmesan, Reggiano, Mozzarella, Mild
Cheddar, Fontina, Gouda, Jarlsberg, Swiss, Brie,
Camembert and other soft rind cheeses
• Omelets, cheese soufflé’, scrambled eggs with
smoked salmon
• New England clam chowder, French onion soup,
oyster stew, seafood bisque or chowder and vichyssoise
• Chef’s salad, chicken salad, Chinese chicken salad,
crab or shrimp louis, lobster salad, pasta salad, potato salad
or Waldorf
• Grilled or sautéed abalone, fried calamari, clams
steamed, boiled or in a cream or white wine sauce, crab,
lobster grilled, steamed or boiled, lobster Newberg or
Thermidor, mussels steamed or in white wine sauce, oysters
poached or grilled on the half-shell, Oysters Rockefeller,
shrimp fried or grilled, scallops fried or grilled and deep-
fried soft-shell crab
• Halibut grilled, sautéed or in butter/cream sauce,
mahi mahi and red snapper grilled or sautéed, grilled or
roasted monkfish, baked, deep-fried or sautéed rock cod,
salmon grilled, sautéed or smoked, salmon carpaccio, grilled
shark or swordfish, sole grilled, sautéed, in lemon sauce or
in butter/cream sauce, grilled, sautéed or smoked trout,
tuna pan-seared, sashimi and Tuna carpaccio
• Chicken in butter/cream sauce or white wine sauce,
grilled or sautéed chicken liver, chicken pot pie, satay,
teriyaki, chicken baked, barbecued, broiled, roasted or
fried, roasted game hen, Cornish hen, quail or goose,
turkey and rabbit
• Baked ham, grilled or sautéed pork chops, barbecued
pork ribs, pork roast plain or with applesauce, pork
tenderloin, grilled, roasted or sautéed veal chops, veal
marsala or scallopine
• Avocado, glazed carrots, creamed spinach, acorn or
butternut squash, mashed or pureed sweet potatoes and tofu
• Polenta with butter and cheese or seafood risotto
• Ricotta cannelloni, savory crepes, gnocchi with
cheese/cream or seafood sauce, macaroni and cheese, pasta
with cheese/cream/alfredo or seafood sauce, pizza with
Canadian bacon and pineapple or white with no tomato
sauce
• Asian food like; barbecue pork, shrimp/chicken Chow
Fun or Chow Mein, Dim Sum, Egg Rolls, Mongolian Beef,
Moo Shoo Pork, Orange Chicken, Pot Stickers, Cashew
Chicken, Ta Chan Chicken, Sweet & Sour Pork and Twice
Cooked Pork, Sushi or Sashimi, chicken/seafood teriyaki or
tempura, Pad Thai, Fried Rice, beef/chicken/seafood with
curry or coconut milk, spring roll, chicken/fish sukiyaki,
beef/chicken with hot chiles and basil and Hot and Sour
Soup
• Indian food like; chicken/lamb/seafood curry,
Samosas, Pakoras, chicken Tajines, chicken/fish Tandoori
• Cajun barbecued shrimp, gumbo or Pan-Blackened
Fish, chicken with mole, salsa and tortilla soup
• Angel food or pound cake, apples/pears fresh, baked
or poached, crème brule’e, crème caramel/flan, baked figs,
peaches or apricots, cheesecake, vanilla ice cream,
apple/pear/lemon/peach/apricot pies and tarts, rice pudding
and tropical fruits