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Dry red wine Recipes

8 recipes with dry red wine for weeknights, meal prep, and quick ingredient searches. Choose by time, cuisine, and what is in your kitchen.

8 recipes

Pot Roast with beef, carrot and potato — USA recipe

🇺🇸USAAdvanced

Meat Dishes

Pot Roast

A classic American home-cooked dish — tender, juicy beef slowly braised with vegetables until softened. Cooked in its own juices with carrots, onions, potatoes and aromatic herbs for a rich, full flavor.

225 min600 kcal8 serves

💪High protein🌾Gluten-free

Spaghetti Bolognese with spaghetti, ground beef and tomato — Italy recipe

🇮🇹ItalyMedium

Cereal and Pasta Dishes

Spaghetti Bolognese

A slow-cooked meat ragù of ground beef, pancetta, tomatoes, and a splash of milk that simmers for hours until thick and deeply savory. The pasta is just a vehicle — the sauce is where all the patience pays off.

35 min900 kcal4 serves

⚡Quick💪High protein

Bigos (Polish Hunter's Stew) with sauerkraut, pork and smoked sausage — Poland recipe

🇵🇱PolandAdvanced

Vegetable and Mushroom Dishes

Bigos (Polish Hunter's Stew)

Poland's national dish — a slow-simmered stew of sauerkraut, fresh cabbage, mixed meats, smoked sausage and dried mushrooms. Deeply savory, rich and smoky. Famous for getting better with each reheating; Poles say the best bigos is on the third day.

210 min450 kcal8 serves

🌾Gluten-free💪High protein

Spanish Red Sangria with dry red wine, brandy and fresh orange juice — Spain recipe

🇪🇸SpainMedium

Beverages

Spanish Red Sangria

Red wine, fruit, brandy, and eight hours in the fridge. The ratio matters less than the resting time — sangria made two hours ahead tastes like wine with fruit floating in it; sangria made overnight tastes like something worth a second glass. Garnacha or Tempranillo, a cinnamon stick, orange and apple, a splash of brandy. No fancy liqueurs needed.

15 min185 kcal6 serves

🌱Vegan🌾Gluten-free⚡Quick

Mulled Wine with dry red wine, cinnamon sticks and whole cloves — Germany recipe

🇩🇪GermanyMedium

Beverages

Mulled Wine

Red wine slowly heated with whole spices and orange until the kitchen smells like a December market stall. The temperature is the only real skill involved: get it right and the wine stays bright and warming; boil it and you lose the alcohol and gain a flat, syrupy taste that no amount of cinnamon recovers. Twenty minutes of attention, and it holds on the lowest heat for hours.

30 min175 kcal6 serves

🌱Vegan🌾Gluten-free⚡Quick

Lentil Bolognese with red lentils, crushed tomatoes and tomato paste — Italy recipe

🇮🇹ItalyMedium

Cereal and Pasta Dishes

Lentil Bolognese

Red lentils simmered with soffritto, tomato paste, crushed tomatoes, and red wine into a thick, deeply savory pasta sauce. No meat, no substitutes — just lentils doing what they do best when you give them enough time and heat. The sauce works because red lentils dissolve into the tomato base, thickening it while adding body and protein. Walnuts, added near the end, give the sauce a slight richness and something to chew on. The whole thing takes about 40 minutes and tastes better the next day.

45 min480 kcal4 serves

🌿Vegetarian🌱Vegan🌾Gluten-free

Moussaka with eggplants, minced lamb and tomato paste — Greece recipe

🇬🇷GreeceAdvanced

Meat Dishes

Moussaka

Three components built and assembled: roasted eggplant, cinnamon-spiced lamb and beef sauce reduced until thick, and a Greek béchamel enriched with egg yolks that sets firm during baking so the slices hold. Moussaka in the form most people know — with that custard-like béchamel top — is a 1920s creation by chef Nikolaos Tselementes, who added a French béchamel to an older layered eggplant dish. The result became the benchmark for Greek home cooking. The work is real but most of it is waiting: the sauce reducing, the eggplant roasting, the assembled dish baking and then resting. The rest time after baking is not optional.

120 min520 kcal6 serves

💪High protein

Pastitsio with pasta, ground beef and tomato — Greece recipe

🇬🇷GreeceAdvanced

Cereal and Pasta Dishes

Pastitsio

Three layers baked in a deep dish: tubular pasta bound with egg whites, a cinnamon-and-clove spiced beef sauce cooked until very dry, and a thick Greek béchamel enriched with egg yolks that sets firm during baking. Pastitsio is sometimes called Greek lasagna but the comparison only goes so far — the warm spices in the meat sauce give it a depth that Italian ragù does not have, and the Greek béchamel is deliberately thicker and richer than anything on a lasagna. The dish requires time but all three components can be made separately and assembled the same day or the next.

120 min550 kcal6 serves

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carrot ground beef tomato tomato paste potato onion spaghetti sauerkraut pork brandy cinnamon sticks whole cloves