| Riesling Food Pairing |
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| 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 |
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