cooking with cider

mwa

Hello,

I just dropped some of my shopping bringing it into the house and a can of cider started hissing, I managed to salvage 400ml which is now sitting in a jug but I don't want to waste it (can't drink it as I'm 8 months pregnant, it was for the hubby when he gets home!)

Does anyone have any suggestions for what I can do with it, please? I guess I could always freeze it in ice cubes but have never cooked with cider before so really have no ideas.

Many thanks
MWA

Heelz

cider goes really well with sausages and pork, so maybe

sausage and cider casserole
pork stroganoff

or use it in place of white wine in a stronger tasting dish eg a frech style chicken casserole

zippychick

cooking in cider

more cooking with cider

Im sure you will find plenty there. Let us know how you get on. I have only ever cooked sausage casserole myself. (YUM)x

mrbadexample

Me drunk.

Aileen_Una

Here is a recipe I've used and loved for pork stew

http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/5575/irish-coddled-pork-with-cider

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

What can you make with 2 and a half litres of scrumpy?

Enough mistakes to keep your toes curling into old age...

hotcookie101

I love using cider for sauces and gravy, but usually use decent bottled stuff (I always find it hard to pour it in the pan cos I love it SOOO much). However I have a can of Strongbow, and a shoulder of pork roasting in the oven-do you reckon I can use it for gravy for pork? Or is it too full of rubbish?

Stephen_Leak

PORK IN CIDER

This recipe is little short of perfect. It uses just a few cheap yet wholesome ingredients. It is easy to do. It won’t burn to a crisp, if you leave it in the oven for few minutes too long. It even makes its own apple sauce. And the gravy, made from the cooking juices, goes with the dish perfectly and also means that absolutely nothing is wasted.

Serves 2

INGREDIENTS

250ml of cider
1 apple
1 onion
2 pork chops or steaks

METHOD

Pour the cider into a measuring jug. Peel and core the apple, cut it into thick slices and put them into the cider to stop them going brown. Peel the onion and chop it into tiny pieces.

Put the onion in the bottom of an ovenproof dish with a lid. Put the meat on top. Add the cider. Arrange the apple slices on top of the pork. Put the lid on the dish.

Cook in a preheated oven at 150°C, 300°F, gas mark 2 for about 2 hours. Check the liquid level from time to time and top it up if it starts to dry out.

ADDITIONS & ALTERNATIVES

Use a cooking apple for preference, bur an eating apple will do.

Stir 2 heaped teaspoons of gravy granules into the cider and onion left in the dish to make the most delicious gravy.

TIPS

Any cheap cider (that doesn’t have the word "white" in the name) will do. The long, slow cooking in the alcohol tenderises even the cheapest meat.

hotcookie101

Strongbow did work-maybe not as rich a flavour as a good scrumpy type but the slow roast shoulder of pork provided such scrummy savouriness it was lovely

daska

I substitute cider for milk when making pancakes - much better than beer for sweet pancakes