Exclusive: Katie Lee’s Top Wine Cooking Mistake to Avoid

Whether you’re cooking vegetables or meat, adding wine can help to make your food extra succulent and impart incredible flavor. Both dry white and red wines can amp up the savory or sweet side of a dish, depending on what taste you’re going for. However, best-selling cookbook author and food personality, Katie Lee Biegel, told us in an exclusive interview that there are a few mistakes you’ll want to avoid when cooking with it.

While promoting her line of completely organic wine, Kind of Wild, she explained that it’s important to mix it in at the right time and choose a variety that you actually enjoy drinking. “That doesn’t necessarily mean something that’s expensive, but something that tastes good because it’s just like any other ingredient in your cooking,” said Biegel. “You want to use something that is high quality and adding the alcohol at the right time, along with cooking at the right amount.”

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When it comes to one of Biegel’s go-to meals that features alcohol, she likes to whip up her scallops with a brown and white wine sauce. “The Kitchen” co-host revealed that it’s quick, easy, and delicious. She explained it’s also important when making a dish like this to let it simmer, “If you’re making a sauce, you want to put it in and give it enough time to burn off the alcohol flavor and to get into the taste of the wine.”

To create this particular recipe, once the scallops are fully cooked in olive oil and butter, place them onto a separate plate. Following this, add a touch of chardonnay and lemon to the brown butter, stirring the sauce until it reduces by half. The final step is to drizzle this delightful wine-infused sauce over your seafood meal and savour it.

On the other hand, if red wine is more to your liking, Biegel recommends adding your favourite dry variant to mushroom Bolognese. For this recipe, ½ cup of alcohol is incorporated into the sauce and reduced for 30 minutes. She claims the result is rich and hearty, making it an ideal choice “if you’re wanting something this time of year that feels very warming.”

You can order Katie Lee Biegel’s organic wine by visiting kindofwildwines.com. The new season of “The Kitchen” will start Saturday, January 13 at 11:00 a.m. ET on Food Network.

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