Cooking With Coca Cola Food

COCA-COLA BRISKET

Steps:

• Season brisket with garlic powder, salt and pepper.
• Mix ketchup, Worcestershire Sauce, and Kitchen Bouquet and spread over beef.
• Place in covered roaster and cover with onion slices, then coca-cola.
• Cover and roast at 350°F until almost done, about 3 hours.
• Remove meat and slice.
• Thicken gravy with cornstarch (about 2 tbs in 1/4 cup cold water) and adjust seasonings.
• Return meat to gravy and continue cooking 1 hour.
• Serve over mashed potatoes or rice.
• This can also be prepared using a crockpot. Use same ingredients and cook according to your crockpot manufacturers directions for roasting meat.

COCA COLA MEATBALLS

Steps:

• preheat oven to 180 Celsius spray a baking dish with cooking spray.
• in a large bowl, mix all the meatball ingredients together then roll into golf ball sized balls.
• place balls in a single layer into the baking dish.
• in a small bowl, mix together all the sauce ingredients then pour over the meatballs.
• cook for 50 - 60 minutes until sauce is bubbly and meatballs are cooked. turn the balls once during cooking.
• when the meatballs are almost ready to serve, remove from oven and mix 2 tablespoons of cornflour with enough water to make a thin paste and stir through the meatballs to thicken the sauce. return to oven for 5 minutes then serve.
• serve with mashed potato and vegetables of choice.

HAM IN COCA COLA

Steps:

• Put ham in a pan, add onion and pour over the Coke.
• Bring to the boil, reduce to a simmer, put the lid on and cook for around 2 1/2 hours or around one hour per kilo of meat.
• Preheat oven to 240 C degrees.
• When ham is cooked, take it out of pan and let cool.
• Remove skin, leaving a thin layer of fat.
• Use a sharp knife to make large diamond shapes in the fat.
• Put a clove in each diamond and spread treacle over skin.
• Pat mustard and sugar onto the sticky fat.
• Bake in a foil-lined pan for around 10 minutes, or until crispy and bubbly.