Ever tried sparkling red beads with strawberries?

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This week, head to the Loire Valley to discover one of the few sparkling red wines of quality produced in France (we know mainly the Italian Lambrusco, probably the most consumed in the world in that category). It is precisely on the 25 ha of his estate in Thoré-La-Rochette (Loir-et-Cher), in the Vendômois hillsides along the Loir, that Patrice Colin, an independent winemaker, produces in an ancestral and organic way this “sparkling red beads” 2018, 100% Gamay, tender and tasty.

With strawberries! Thomas describes it as a "stimulus wine", the one we drink at the end of the meal because we want the evening to continue on a festive note but "light as a feather". A sparkling red beads 2018 that can nevertheless be drunk as an aperitif or on dishes but that will accompany the fresh red berries of spring and especially strawberries in salad, which taste and fragrance it will sublimate.

A recipe from Normandy, the land of apples, cider and Calvados

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Recipe! Cooked apples with quinoa and black pudding (boudin noir)

Preparation time: 25 minutes
Cooking time: 35 minutes

Ingredients for 4:

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  • 4 big apples suited for cooking (Golden Delicious, Braeburn…)

  • 3 oz (90 g) of white quinoa, uncooked

  • 6 oz (180 g) of black pudding

  • 1 tbsp (15 g) of half-salted butter, softened

  • Salt and Pepper

    Instructions

  • Preheat the oven to 350° F (180 ° C).

  • Rinse the quinoa. In a saucepan, pour twice its volume of water and bring to a boil. Add salt and quinoa and cook for 10 minutes. Out of the heat, cover and let swell up for 5 minutes. Drain.

  • Wash the apples, cut a hat. Empty them with a Parisian spoon in order to make small balls which you will keep in a salad bowl.

  • Remove the black pudding skin.

  • In the salad bowl, combine the apple balls with the pudding, softened butter and quinoa. Add salt and pepper.

On a baking sheet, arrange the cored apples. Garnish them with stuffing. Cover with hat.

Cook in the oven for 25 minutes.

Tips

The Parisian spoon (often called melon baller) is essential to present your vegetables or fruits such as melon, watermelon, apples ... in the form of marbles.

Serve this recipe with a green salad.

Nutritional facts : For 1 portion = 6 oz = 573 Kcal