Royal Paella and Fleurs de Guarrigue wine, a suggestion from Délices d’Annie

This is a new suggestion of dish/wine marriage proposed by Delices d’Annie. This pairing would certainly easily convince the gourmet within you and gain the approval of your friends and family. This delicious royal paella is accompanied by a Côtes du Rhone white wine.

The royal paella of Delices d’Annie

The royal paella of Delices d’Annie is both a friendly and a nourishing dish. Chicken, mussels, seafood and spices give this paella a perfect mix of land and sea products and scents. It’s a real delight for the senses of the greedy and the gourmets.

If you can afford it, serve the paella well warmed in a big pan or one of those frying pans with two stoves especially made for serving paella. This will allow everybody to serve themselves directly in the dish for a better friendly atmosphere.

Fleurs de Garrigue wine, a Côtes du Rhône from Delices and Gourmandises’ cellar

Fleurs de Garrigue is a white wine of exception that has been chosen by the wine stewards of Delices and Gourmandises. Its smoothness and lightness are unique. For this subtle mix, the grapes are collected only when they are perfectly mature and botrytised grapes are kept to make the wine. The wine fermenting process is particularly long as it lasts almost 4 weeks. The fermentation is made at cold; the temperature must not exceed 15°C.

The color is typical of the young white wines, pale yellow with some green reflects. At nose, it exhales delicious scents of red berries, peach and apricots and flowers. At taste, it is perfectly round and smooth. This white wine must be served fresh and can be kept for at least 5 years with good conditions.

A harmonious dish/wine marriage

A white wine is just the perfect beverage to accompany this dish of chicken, spices and seafood. The royal paella of Delices d’Annie just deserves the best: the Fleurs de Garrigue is not too dry nor to soft; the one as the other would have wasted the taste of the dish. This Delices and Gourmandises Côtes du Rhône is the best wine for this tasteful, spicy and sunny family dish.

Try and enjoy this new dish/wine pairing of Délices d’Annie

Les Delices d’Annie offers you a good moment with your friends or family with a dinner composed by a braised tender hand of pork with lentils, a dish that is accompanied with a Cabernet Sauvignon Les Estampilles, a delicious wine chosen by the wine specialists of Delices and Gourmandises.

The braised tender hand of pork with lentils of Delices d’Annie

A hand of pork is not just a piece of meat. It is a perfect choice for a family dinner on Sundays or for a special occasion. Well-cooked and well-accompanied, this traditionally made dish can make a simple dinner a great moment with your beloved ones.

This dish proposed by Delices d’Annie may remind you some childhood memories if you had the chance to try you grandma’s cooking, especially if you lived in the countryside. You will find in it the delicate taste of the slightly salted ham and the inevitable green lentils from the Puy. The dish also contains delicious smoked lardoons that give it a delicate scent of earthly flavor.

Les Estampilles, a Cabernet Sauvignon suggested by Delices et Gourmandises

Les Estampilles is a strong red wine with fruits scents made from grape varieties growed in the Bordeaux wineyards, more precisely in the area called « Entre-Deux-Mers ». It has a deep dark red color with some brown or purple reflects. At nose, it has a smooth blackcurrant aroma, a spicy scent that reminds the pepper and some red berries and flower fragrance. At taste, it is supple and round. You can easily keep it for 3 or 5 years in the right conditions.

Why choose this dish/meat pairing?

The strong but really supple tannins of this wine offer it a great roundness and a lightness that would perfectly marry with the braised tender hand of pork with lentils that can be considered as a little bit heavy dish. The fruity fragrance of the wine makes the strong taste of the braised meat a good counterweight. The harmony and the accuracy if this dish/wine marriage proposed by Delices d’Annie and Delices and Gourmandises would certainly surprise your guests.

The gift basket of Delices D’Annie

This basket is filled of some best traditional and local products of France. You can order it on the online boutique of Delices D’Annie.

What does contains this gift basket of Delices D’Annie?

This greedy gift of Delices D’Annie is composed of a beautiful basket made of bamboo fibers which contains two jars of terrines which each weighs 180g, one terrine of cep and one terrine of chestnut. The pack also includes a bottle of red wine Bergerac (Protected Designation of Origin) and 60g of fruit jellies. It could make a beautiful gift for a friend or a member of your family, but that you could also buy for you.

The terrines are made of fresh and high quality ingredients, from the country that have been carefully selected among producers. All our dishes are prepared by the best French cooking craftsmen for insuring that all the tastes and the aromas of the food are kept. This allows us to offer most of the refined and well-known specialty-foods from our countries. The customers can discover their grandfathers’ recipes or try the food of another part of the Hexagon they always wanted to taste.

Delices D’Annie: How to enjoy the products offered in this basket?

All the food included in this gift basket of Delices d’Annie can be served at the aperitif or for the starter. The terrines would be best spread on fresh or toasted country or whole bread slices.

The terrine of cep, which softly melts in the mouth exhale a delicate woody perfume, will perfectly accompany a green salad in which you can put some grinded nuts for a crispy touch. The terrine of chestnut and its refined aroma of nuts would be best served with an Arugula Salad or a lamb’s lettuce salad with vinaigrette flavored with nut oil.

As beverage, the Protected Designation of Origin Bergerac wine provided in the basket has been specially chosen for its perfect adequacy with the terrines. This supple wine with fruity aromas would be best served chilled and help you benefit from the delicate taste of the terrines.

You can end your tasting with the sweet note of the fruit jellies. These candies have all kept the natural taste and aromas of the fruits they have been made with.

Delices d’Annie mussels with garlic recipe

Want to impress your guests with an original starter? Why not try the mussels with garlic? This is one of the new dishes offered by, a specialty appreciated by kids and adults. If you want to prepare it on your own, here’s the recipe.

Ingredients

To successfully prepare this dish the “Delices d’Annie “way, you must choose very fresh mussels. So here are all the ingredients you need:

– 2 kg of molds (the quantity can be increased or decreased according to the number of guests).

– 3 garlic cloves

– 3 sprigs of parsley

– 1 onion

– 100 g of fresh cream

– ½ glass of dry white wine

– 4 tbsp of extra virgin olive oil

– Salt and pepper

Preparing Delices d’Annie mussels with garlic

– Clean the mussels.

– In a pan, fry the chopped onion in olive oil. Add the white wine, parsley and some pepper and let boil. Place the mussels, cover and let simmer until they open.

– Drain the mussels and keep only the flesh. Reserve the cooking juices.

– Mix the garlic with cream and then stir the mussels’ juice in the sauce.

– Boil down this mixture for a few minutes. Salt and pepper.

– Pour the hot cream over the garlic mussels previously pitched in a shallow dish. Mix until everything is well coated with the sauce.

– Decorate with chopped parsley sprigs and serve immediately.

Tasting advice by Delices d’Annie

This dish is usually served hot appetizer with slices of fresh bread. You can also offer it as the main course with chips (as do the Belgians).

If you do not have time to prepare mussels with garlic, do not worry. Delices d’Annie can deliver you a cooked dish prepared following this recipe. You will only have to warm it up by adding a splash of white wine. This will help to raise its taste and reveal the aromas of garlic. You can also broil it for a few minutes in the oven.

The Baeckeoffe dish as proposed by Delices d’Annie

This dish from the Alsatian gastronomy and marketed by Delices d’Annie‘s website subtly combines meat, vegetables and potatoes with savory spices. Prepared following the tradition of eastern France, it will delight young and adults during the long winter evenings.

 

Delices d’Annie: Quality ingredients for a successful dish

To succeed this dish, the key is in the quality of the ingredients used and the respect of maceration time. Baeckeoffe is long to prepare, but will satisfy your taste buds with a medley of flavor. This recipe delivered by Delices d’Annie respects Alsace’s traditions. For 4 people, you will need:

• 8 Duck wings
• 750 g pork (loin or neck)
• 250 g Leek
• 200 g Carots
• 2 kg Potatoes
• 2 yellow oinons
• 2 garlic cloves
• 3 bay leaves
• 2 cloves
• 5 juniper berries
• 1 liter of Riesling white wine
• 30 g Salt
• 15 g Pepper

Method to cook the Baeckeoffe of Delices d’Annie

 

Here are the different stages of the preparation of this delicious dish proposed by Delices d’Annie:

– Cut the pork into 2 cm pieces.
– Cut the leek into 2 cm pieces and have the carrots sliced into 4 mm.
– Peel the garlic.
– Prepare a marinade in a large bowl with the white wine, meat, vegetables, garlic, cloves, juniper berries and bay leaves.
– Then let macerate in the fridge for 24 h.
– The next day, peel the potatoes and cut them into 4 mm thick slices.
– Peel and chop the onions.
– Mix the potatoes, onions, salt and pepper in a bowl.
– At the bottom of a clay pot, place a layer of potatoes, then a layer of marinade. Repeat the process taking care to end with potato layer.

– Then, bake at 180 ° C (gas mark 6) for 4 h.

You should enjoy this dish when it’s right out of the oven. It can be accompanied with green salad.