Diet Coke Ham Recipe
If you have a small 500g joint of gammon and a small slow cooker then this recipe will still work with 750ml of diet coke.
Diet coke ham recipe. I then drained the water and added enough coke to fully cover the ham and stove top it at a high simmer or low boil for about 2 hours until it fell apart when forked. When ham is cooked take it out of pan and let cool. This saved me from having to stay in the kitchen to frequently baste it.
I used a 2 liter bottle of vanilla coke for a 12 pound bone in smoked ham. Put ham in a pan add onion and pour over the coke. I bought a butt shank ham and cut most all of the fat off.
Place the ham in a large pan of water and bring to boil for 5 minutes to get rid of any salt on the meat. Once this gammon is cooked it is so tender and melts in the mouth. Remove the ham from the oven after it has cooked for 15 minutes per lb.
Slow cooked diet coke gammon. But if cooking your cola gammon in a pressure cooker you only need 500ml. Combine bread crumbs brown sugar dried mustard and pepper in a medium bowl.
While coca cola based recipes are often associated with southern american cuisine british chef nigella lawson popularized a recipe for ham basted in coke in 2007 though versions from as. Place the ham cut side down in a foil lined baking pan. A lot of people have tried either this or diet coke chicken if you ve not tried either then you are sure in for a treat.
Carefully press the crumb mixture onto the outer skin of the ham. Remove ham from refrigerator 1 hour before baking. Pre heat oven to 325f degrees.