Recipe: Perfect Ham in coke

Ham in coke. These useful spices can be used to cook so many different meals! This ham in cola is fabulous. What to do with the incredible ham/cola juice?

Coca-Cola Ham is a very southern preparation born in the heart of Georgia. Ham in coke might not sound delicious, but trust us it is! The addition of the sweet fizzy drink brings out the flavour of the ham joint. You can have Ham in coke using 8 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Ham in coke

1. It's 2 kg of gammon, mild cure.
2. Prepare 1 of onion, peeled and halved.
3. It's 2 litres of cola.
4. It's of Glaze.
5. It's 1 handful of Cloves.
6. You need 1 tbsp of golden syrup.
7. You need 2 tsp of English mustard powder.
8. You need 2 tbsp of demerara sugar.

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Ham in coke step by step

1. Put the gammon in a pan, skin side down if it fits like, add the onion then pour over the cola..
2. Bring to the boil, reduce to a good simmer, put the lid on, though not tightly, and cook for 1 hour a kilo. If gammon is straight from fridge add 15mins to cooking time..
3. Preheat oven to 240°C/gas 9.
4. Take the ham out of the pan and let the ham cool a little for ease of handling. (You can let it cool completely then finish off the cooking at some later stage if you want)..
5. Remove skin, leaving a thin layer of fat. Score the fat with a sharp knife to make fairly large diamond shapes, and stud each diamond with a clove. Then carefully spread the golden syrup over the fat. Then gently pat the mustard and sugar onto the sticky fat..
6. Cook for approximately 10 minutes or till the glaze is dark and bubbly. If you left the ham after the simmering, cook for 30-40 minutes at 180°C instead.

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