Pork cooked in cherry coke - alternative

lickylonglips

Hi! I have a pork joint that I would love to cook in coke or cherry coke. Never tried it, but it sounds delicious. However, as a diabetic, I'm not allowed the levels of sugar that are in these drinks, and the recipe won't work with diet drinks. Has anyone got an alternative they can suggest? I was going to cook the pork in the slow cooker, but in the oven is also a possibility. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

Cruiksl

I used to have a recipe from Slimming world and it was chicken cooked in diet coke. I tried it and wasn't that impressed to be honest.

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Blackpool_Saver

ham in coke is good i hear, i dont eat meat myself, how about making a cherry sauce with canderel ?

lickylonglips

i might try that... only problem is cherries are well out of season... could use a tin of cherry pie filling, but the problem will be the sugar again.... i wonder if maybe a cooking liquid based on watered down reduced-sugar jam might work?

lickylonglips

Blackpool_Saver wrote: »

ham in coke is good i hear, i dont eat meat myself, how about making a cherry sauce with canderel ?

I'm in Blackpool, too! You enjoying this rare Blackpool snow??? Just the weather for something tasty from the slow cooker I think!

point3

You won't like hearing this, but it's precisely the high sugar content in Coke that makes this dish work. The Coke reduces down, leaving a sweet caramelized coating on the joint.

How about roasting the joint as normal and serving with caramelized onions instead? There's a natural sweetness in onions that doesn't come from sugar. Not quite the same I know...:undecided

lickylonglips

point3 wrote: »

You won't like hearing this, but it's precisely the high sugar content in Coke that makes this dish work. The Coke reduces down, leaving a sweet caramelized coating on the joint.

i know! i quote myself: "the recipe won't work with diet drinks"

might try it with a mixture of onions and some sweetening agent.....

Blackpool_Saver

Is it possible to get frozen cherries in iceland? don't know cos haven't been in there in years !
Yes it's a bit rare, I am in Thornton where are you?

NJW69

I used diet coke for the ham in coke and thought it was okay. I have had some morrello cherry sugar free (diabetic) jam that I have used with duck before. Think it's made by Stute.

Penelope_Penguin

I've nevger understood why Nigella of all people suggested to people that they cook a nice piece of meat in sugar, caramel and phosphoric acid

I'm cooking gammon at the weekend and it will have apple juice and fresh vegetables added to it Any stock left over after gravy is made will become the base of a bacon and lentil soup - you can't do that with the remains of cherry coke

Penny. x

thriftlady_2

Are you sure you don't mean a ham/gammon joint? I think cooking a piece of uncured pork in any kind of liquid will be a bit odd and a complete waste of crackling. The salt from the ham or gammon contributes to the flavour of the cooking liquid.

Last time I cooked a joint of ham I toyed with the idea of doing it in coke but then couldn't bring myself to buy the stuff (blerghh!) so I did it in cider. It was delicious And as Penny says you get lovely stock too.