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Patrick’s Day is coming, and the spirits will surely movement. But heads-up, y’all: Whiskey is good for much more than simply drinking and deserves a place in your kitchen as well as bar.

This week we’ve cooked up a full meal of appetizer, entree, facet and dessert that each demonstrates the numerous reasons to include whiskey into your common cooking. Be at liberty to use your bourbon, Scotch or other whiskey of selection. And bonus, no Jameson required here. None of them are terribly sophisticated or time consuming, and they result in a properly-rounded menu of bold flavors.

Alcohol’s most important superpower is the flexibility to bind with each fats and water molecules, enhancing the aroma and taste of many elements. We’ve put that principle to activity in a boozy twist on the traditional British appetizer called potted shrimp, wherein shellfish are preserved beneath a fatty cap of butter much like the French pork dish rillettes.

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The whiskey marries with a substantial amount of butter and in addition punches up the briny shrimp and aromatic shallots to make an appetizer spread that’s a terrific complement to grilled steak.

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So, our predominant course is a whiskey-marinated rib-eye steak flavored with a sweet dose of hoisin sauce. On this case, the alcohol helps the other marinade elements including ginger and garlic penetrate into the meat, and it adds a pleasant oaky style of its own that holds up effectively after a fast sear over a charcoal fireplace.

Sauces and glazes normally have a considerable quantity of fat and aromatics, too, in order that they get a boost from booze additionally. A sweet whiskey glaze poured over pan-seared carrots picks up the sweet flavors of the foundation vegetable and make this a extremely craveable dish.

Alcohol lengthy has been used as a preservative for fruits, which has a twofold benefit in making both a scrumptious sweet deal with and also a fruit-infused liquor that can be utilized to make fascinating cocktails.

We’ve taken some liberties with boozy peaches by including guajillo chile to the combo and utilizing whiskey instead of the classic brandy. The outcomes have loads of Lone Star perspective and are simply at house as dessert with a dish of ice cream or as a candy counter-punch to grilled or roasted meat.

Recipe: Potted Shrimp with Whiskey

Recipe: Whiskey-Marinated Rib-eye Steak

Recipe: Whiskey-Glazed Carrots

Recipe: Whiskey Peaches with Chile

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Paul Stephen is a meals and drink reporter and restaurant critic within the San Antonio and Bexar County space. Read him on our free site, mySA.com, and on our subscriber site, ExpressNews.com.