To Homepage
YOU MAY LIKE:
Bacon Mozza Melt Bun Recipe
Crockpot Wedges with Meaty Bacon Bits
Crockpot recipes are easy and fun to make. Just add your ingredients to the Crockpot and choose your heat; low or high. Choose a wine to pair with your meal's ingredients.
Ingredients For This Recipe:
Skin-on raw potatoes cut into medium size wedges,(medium size potatoes are best for this),
A 1/4 cup of meaty bacon bits, (can buy pre made and already cooked),
Salt to season potato wedges once placed into the crockpot,
3/4 cup cold water poured into the crockpot - this keeps potatoes from sticking to crockpot and adds moisture to the cooking.
Slow Cook The Wedges:
The potato wedges will need to cook for about 2 hours on the high heat crockpot mode. Place them with the skin facing down into the crockpot. That way, they will all cook the same. If using a smaller crockpot, then you can just create a second row of wedges. I use a 5qt crockpot and I cooked 4 medium size potatoes, which is enough for two to three good portion servings, assuming that the potatoes is your meal.
Add a Sauce or Special Seasoning:
You can simply use salt to lightly season your wedges in the crockpot, and you can also add a variety of your own favourite seasonings; Some I like are: steak seasoning; the one that comes with Walmart's frozen sandwich steaks; thyme or sage - lightly sprinkled over the wedges; and for dipping or garnishing sauce I use the Korean Oigatsuo sauce (which is actually a soup base) and just dip the top or side of each wedge and then put them onto my serving plate.
Also good is the Ponsu Japanese dipping sauce; it has a lemonly citrusy flavour which goes well with fish, steak, and crockpot potato wedges. If you like hot or spicy; you can also try Cajun(spicy) seasoning or Sirrachi seasoning (very hot). Both of these are usually found in the baking/seasoning section of your grocery store. Ponsu sauce, Oigatsuo sauces can be purchased at your local Asian market.
Add some sweet or tangy pickles as a small side to contrast your hot n spicy seasoning.
Choose Your Wine:
Now add a glass of wine to compliment your meal. To choose a wine, you first consider the ingredients in your meal. Since our crockpot slow cooked potato wedges are a starchy food, we can use either a light dry white wine or a light or medium body red. And, for our meaty bacon bits, a light or medium red is usually the best match for cured meats like this. So, a light or medium red is probably a good choice for this meal.
A Greek red wine with a light and fruity body is our selection. It goes with the cooked wedges and also with the meaty cured bacon bits.
Apelia From Greece - $14 Canadian. This Light and Fruity red wine from Greece will taste of spicy, fruity plum and red fruit flavour. This wine is made from the Agiorgitiko grape. To learn more about this grape, browse to Common Wine Grapes -Agiorgitiko Grape From Greece
Wine Pairing: Spicy - Hot Food Seasoning
If you decide on any hot or hot n spicy seasoning for your potato wedges; you can also pair a white wine with a slightly sweet body - also known as off-dry body. Riesling would be a good choice. A few wine regions make off dry Rieslings. From Germany, look for one labelled as Riesling Spatlese, or a Black Tower Riesling(Apple,Citrus,Honey Flavours). Both are at $15 - $20 pricing.
From USA try a Roku Riesling(Citrus,Floral,Honeyed Fruit Flavours) at $20. And, from Canada, Copper Moon Riesling, with Citrus, Honey, Peach flavours sells at $14 Canadian. And lastly, from Hungary, a Jaszbery Etyek-Budai Riesling, with Citrus, Floral, Pear flavours; that sells for $11 Canadian.
These wines are off dry and/or have a medium body; that means they are slightly sweeter than a dry white wine. A dry white wine typically has up to 10g/L - residual sugar per litre of wine; whereas a Medium Dry body wine like a Riesling Spatlese or Riesling Medium Dry Body, can have up to 20g/L of residual sugar.
And, there is also a Medium body; which can have up to 50g/L(residual sugar per litre of wine). So, a Medium body wine is sweeter than a Medium Dry body wine. And, wines labelled as Sweet or Dessert wines, have more residual sugar than the Medium body or Medium Dry body styles; usually in the 50g/L to 110 g/L.
White wines that are slightly sweet pair well with hot and spicy seasoned foods; such as seasoned chicken, fish, pasta, sushi, or Asian noodles or cuisine.
Flavours In Wines
Wines typically have 3 tasting notes. These are the flavours you can expect to taste in the wine. The 1st named flavour is usually the more prominent, the other flavours are less prominent when drinking the wine. These tasting notes are easily found on store counter labels for a particular wine brand.
Enjoy!
Get our Free Android Wine App - About App & Download App
Click a link to learn more about the types of white and red wines, wine grapes, wine regions and winemaking.
Browse Additional Grape Varietals Click Here
Browse Recommended Wines Click Here
If you Liked - 'Recipe - Crockpot Wedges With Wine Selection', Give Us a Social Mention
You May Also Like:
Android App Making - Free Tutorials
Pro Tips For Amateur Photographers