Ways To Use Coca-Cola In The Kitchen That Will Surprise You

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

Ah, Coca-Cola! Who does not know the legendary soft drink? In addition to being a popular drink, it can also be a good ingredient in cooking.

Chef Aarón Sánchez, who has already told us his secrets in the kitchen and who famous for his restaurants, books and appearances in the Food Network with the Chopped program, wants to show us 5 surprising and delicious ways to use the drink in the kitchen.

The idea is not a coincidence, since the son of the famous Mexican chef Zarela Martínez has just been named as Coca Cola ambassador and will soon be presenting his novel soda-inspired recipes at the South Beach Wine & Food Festival to be held on 23 February in Miami.

"Since I was little, I remember, like many Latinos, growing up accompanying meals with a coke," Sánchez told People en Español. "It is a great honor for me to be a brand ambassador."

Here are his tips: Bon appetit!

Marinades

Roast canned onions, garlic, chipotle peppers and add a little Coca-Cola. Use the mixture to marinate pork chops and grill them. It is great to use with meats that have a lot of fat, all the sweetness of Coca-Cola goes very well and makes them lighter. You have to marinate less than an hour because otherwise the meat becomes a little bitter and the texture of the meat is also affected.

Desserts

I love making a caramel as a sweet type of milk and in the end add a splash of Coca-Cola and leave it as part of a tart for an apple cake. It tastes very good.

Icings

To glaze a bread or a cake, they are golden brown.

With cherries

I love to use Coca-Cola with fresh cherries. You can make a kind of compote to accompany pork ribs [rabbit meat].

To caramelize onions

Lots of caramelized onion and deglazed with Coca-Cola, garlic and enough guajillo chili. It is like a kind of relish.

Soon, Sánchez will share his new recipes with the public through different social platforms.

Meanwhile, he tells us that what will be his third book is nearing completion. "It is about my career in the kitchen, the history of my family in Mexico. It includes recipes from my family and chef friends," he explains.

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As if that wasn't enough to keep him busy, Sanchez says he is working to fund a scholarship to help an aspiring Hispanic chef pursue culinary studies.

"I am very happy," he says, "it is a scholarship with which we want to send a young Latino from New Orleans to study gastronomy at the ICA in New York."

“In May we are going to start looking for the candidates and we are going to choose one of them in the summer. It is very important to support the Latino community here. It is a great force in the kitchen because sometimes they do not have that opportunity to rise to the next level. It is very important to try to sow that for the new generations.” So everyone very outstanding!