Port Balsamic Sauce

INGREDIENTS

½   cup Emile’s Port wine

1    tablespoon aged Balsamic vinegar

METHOD

In a small bowl, mix the ingredients.

What you now have is an excellent salad dressing for salads with bitter ingredients such as spinach or arugula. (See the recipe for Chicken Spinach Salad.)  What is very nice about this dressing is that it contains no oil and is also good to drink.

It is also a marinade for beef or chicken and a great cooking sauce for small bites of chicken.

Simmer this sauce until it is reduced by half and use it as a glaze for pork roasts or as steak sauce.

The most important thing to remember is this: it ONLY works with Guglielmo Winery’s Emile’s Port. If you wish to use a ruby port for a sauce, there is a recipe on this blog for that also.

 RASPBERRY BALSAMIC DRESSING

INGREDIENTS

2          tablespoons Chaucers raspberry wine

1          tablespoon aged balsamic vinegar

METHOD

Mix the two ingredients together. Use on green salads as a raspberry vinaigrette