Chablis challenge: scallops with Thai style green sauce and rice noodles

Scallops, noodles and Thai green sauce

Confession time. I got the wine mentioned here for free thanks to the lovely people at Sopexa. They asked me if I fancied creating an interesting dish to match two bottles of Chablis. “And it’s a bit of a competition”, they said. I like competitions. Where do I sign? After all, I do like free wine a challenge.

The question is, of course, what sort of interesting food can you create to go with wine? Yes, white wine goes with fish, with chicken yadda yadda yadda. But I wanted something a little different. A little less classic and more fun. And the first thing that popped into my mind was South East Asia. Continue reading