This week I’ve been busy getting creative in the kitchen with Coca-Cola Zero Sugar*. For those that don’t already know, Coca-Cola Zero Sugar launched this year to replace Coca-Cola Zero. The new and improved Coca-Cola Zero Sugar looks and tastes more like the classic version, but without the sugar.
Coca-Cola Zero Sugar challenged me to come up with a three-course dinner party menu incorporating Coca-Cola Zero Sugar into the recipes. I went all out and decided to add a Coca-Cola Zero Sugar twist to every course. We do, of course, indulge in sugary treats now and then but for my family, I really try and keep an eye on our sugar intake. Finding alternative ingredients to add to meals is brilliant, especially when it’s exciting ones like Coca-Cola Zero Sugar. My family were certainly looking forward to a cake for dessert that had Coca-Cola Zero Sugar as its star ingredient!
Watch the video below to see how I got on, and read on for the recipes in detail and your chance to win Coca-Cola Zero Sugar goodies!
Tricolore salad with pesto and Coca-Cola Zero Sugar reduction
Ingredients
For the salad
- 4 tomatoes
- 300g mozzarella
- a few basil leaves
For the pesto
- two large handfuls of basil, torn
- 50g pine nuts
- 2 cloves garlic, crushed
- drizzle of extra virgin olive oil
- salt and pepper to taste
For the Coca-Cola Zero Sugar reduction
- 330ml Coca-Cola Zero Sugar
- 2 tablespoons apple cider vinegar
- 2 tablespoons of honey
Method
Salad
- Slice tomatoes and mozzarella and arrange on a plate.
- Add a handful of basil leaves
Pesto
- Crush two cloves of garlic and add to pestle and mortar
- Add 50g pine nuts and grind
- Add two handfuls of torn basil and grind
- Add a drizzle of extra virgin olive oil, salt and pepper to taste, and grind
- Drizzle pesto over the top of the tricolore salad
Coca-Cola Zero Sugar reduction
- Pour 330ml Coca-Cola Zero Sugar into a small saucepan
- Add 2 tablespoons of apple cider vinegar
- Reduce down until there is a quarter of the liquid remaining
- Add two tablespoons of honey
- Reduce until you have a thick sauce
- Drizzle on top of the tricolore salad (reserve leftover sauce for dessert!)
Ham baked in Coca-Cola Zero Sugar with seasonal vegetables and new potatoes
Ingredients
- 330ml Coca-Cola Zero Sugar
- 2kg mild cure gammon joint
- 1.5kg new potatoes
- knob of butter
- 2 spring onions
- seasonal veg to serve
- salt and pepper to taste
Method
- Preheat oven to 170 degrees (gas mark 3)
- Place gammon into an ovenproof dish with a lid
- Pour over 330mls Coca-Cola Zero Sugar
- Cover and bake in the oven for 2 hours
- After two hours carefully drain any excess liquid, increase oven temp to 240 degrees (gas mark 9) return to oven for 10 minutes
- Boil new potatoes for 10-15 minutes
- Steam veg until tender
- Transfer boiled new potatoes to a heavy based pan, add a knob of butter and saute for 5 mins. Chop two spring onions and add to pan.
- Slice ham
- Plate up and serve with a drizzle of the Coca-Cola Zero Sugar reduction you made earlier.
No bake Coca-Cola Zero Sugar chocolate cakes with raspberries and pomegranate seeds
Ingredients
For the base
- 450g pitted dates
- 180g hazelnuts
- 2 heaped tablespoons raw cacao powder
- punnet of raspberries
- four tablespoons pomegranate seeds
For the frosting
- 2 avocados
- 2 tablespoons honey
- 2 heaped tablespoons raw cacao powder
- 2 tablespoons of the Coca-Cola Zero Sugar reduction you made earlier
Method
- Put the dates and hazelnuts in a bowl, cover with boiling water and leave to soak for 20-30 minutes
- Meanwhile add avocados, cacao powder, and honey to a blender (I used my nutribullet)
- Blend until creamy
- Set aside in a bowl, clean blender.
- Once dates and hazelnuts have soaked drain them and add to clean blender with cacao powder and blitz until smooth.
- Add to moulds and press into the bottom and sides, or if making one cake add to an 8-inch loose bottom cake tin.
- Chill for ten minutes in fridge
- Once chilled add a layer of raspberries and then a layer of frosting, remove from mould/tin carefully
- Decorate with raspberries and pomegranate seeds
As you can see the Coca-Cola Zero Sugar is an incredibly diverse ingredient to bake with. I loved the way the ham turned out, it was delicious and flavourful and the Coca-Cola Zero Sugar added such an interesting twist to the chocolate cake. Best of all this entire meal contained absolutely no refined sugar whatsoever!
We had such a lovely dinner party out on the terrace; eating, drinking and chatting the evening away.
Your chance to win with Coca-Cola Zero Sugar
This was just a few ideas to incorporate Coca-Cola Zero Sugar into a dinner party menu but we would love to hear yours!
For a chance to win the following:
- Two prizes to two competition winners
- Each prize includes: 2 x Riedel glasses, 4 x Coca-Cola Zero Sugar 330ml glass contour bottles, 1 x set of Coca-Cola branded coasters
we want you to post your Coca-Cola Zero Sugar recipe ideas and images on social media using #TastesMoreLikeCoke and including my Twitter handle @MrandMrsTPlus3 (so I can track entries!) we can’t wait to hear your ideas!
Don’t forget to enter on the rafflecopter below to register your entry so I can cross reference social participation and draw a winner. Good luck!
Coca-Cola Zero Sugar is available nationwide, in all major supermarkets.
*This is a commissioned post
Wow, this is seriously impressive! Well done you! Looks fab, which surprises me – I’d never thought to cook with their products. I’ll look at Coca Cola in a different way now. Xxxx
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Interesting post, lovely! I must say I’ve seen various recipes using Coke and have always been sceptical, never tempted to try. The food you have made looks amazing, and I particularly like the look of that dessert – chocolate, raspberries and pomegranates are three of my favourites! xxx #thelist
This is seriously impressive indeed! We have a coca cola cookbook but I have never used it. Maybe I should try – you have created far more exciting-looking dishes here than anything in our book though! #thelist
I love coca cola (full fat) was never a fan of the zero. But, I have never tried cooking with it. It all sounds delicious. Sarah #TheList
How interesting. Personally not a fan of coca cola, or fizzy drinks in general, but this sounds worth a go!
I think I’ll have to try the ham – that looks and sounds amazing! #thelist
I’ve heard of Beer Can Chicken and knew you could cook chicken in Coke but this is taking it all to another level! The salad is my all time fave so I may just give that a go! #TheList
Oh wow this is amazing. You are so creative! The dessert sounds spectacular! #thelist
Wow, brilliant ideas. I have cooked the ham before and it’s a great alternative for a Sunday lunch. This all looks yummy X #Thelist
You made my perfect 3 course dinner! What a talented lady you are, it all looks delicious. Bookmarking this Hun xx
Wow, these recipes are so inventive. Love the look of that salad with the homemade pesto and reduction x
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This really looks good. Mozzarella and tomatoes are one on my favourite starters, so this one really appeals.
This looks great especially the Mozzarella and tomatoes and of course the dessert! I would’ve never thought to use Coca-Cola as a cooking ingredient x #TheList
wow you learn something new every day… I did not know that coca cola was used for cooking!! very interesting!
Entered thank you ❤️
I have used coke zero in cupcakes it was so nice, also my sister loves coke zero chicken on her slimming world diet. Apparently it gives it a bbq taste!
I would cook a ham in coke in the slow cooker, yum!
I’d definitely try and make the ham. Looks delicious! Or is slow cook a bacon joint in Coke Zero and make pulled pork x
I would use Coca Cola Zero in my pork spare ribs. Used it before and they were heavenly
The desert looks yummy but I’d definitely have to try coke in food before I’m convinced it’d be nice… Very strange!
Such an awesome idea. Love it x
I can’t believe that you came up with so many recipes. They all look great too!
I’d just mix it with spiced rum and ring a takeout! #badcook
Wow I’m actually so impressed you got it into 3 different meals! I’ve always heard great things about coke chicken, so would love to try with the coke zero xx
Oh goodness, you’re so creative! I’d have never thought up all those recipes. Amazing what you can do with coke, isn’t it? Like someone else said, I’d probably just mix mine with whatever spirit we had in the house and head to the chippy! Ha ha.
I think I would try to make some kind of chicken wings with the Coca Cola Zero Sugar mixed with some soy sauce. In my head it sounds like it would work.
I use it in a cheats cake when I’m shorticultural of time. Packet mix chocolate cake and coke zero….mixed together and put in the slow cooker lol
I love Coca Cola so this is a genuis dinner for me!! I love Coke floats too!!
I would include coke in a really rich BBQ sauce for some pulled pork x
Such fab, unique recipes. I would never have though of them! Coca cola has taken too a whole new level
This is my favourite drink in the world so you’ve no idea how much this excites me! So trying these thanks for sharing xx
I think I’d make some sort of coca cola cake a la nigella lawson. I love coke zero!
id make everyone drink coke zero sugars in coctails on its own and maybe try one of your delicious sounding recipes xx
I would make a Redcurrant, Coca-Cola Zero Sugar & Mint Sauce to serve over lamb for my dinner party. I’ve tweeted also :-)
How very clever! Nice new ideas and so lush too! Will give it a try 1 day. Thank you for sharing x
I’m going to share this post with my brother in law, who is a massive fan of Coca Cola. I think I’d keep things simple by making a coca cola float with chocolate ice cream. It would make a nice drink or dessert.
I would used it in slow cooked pulled pork and then I would have it to drink too! Oooo and maybe a coke zero float!
Coca cola pulled pork, it is the best food I have ever eaten! It has to be full fat though.
I would use it in a dessert, it might work well in tiramasu
Ok fab question – I think I would maybe use it to slow cook some beef with as part of an epic sunday roast – I bet it would give the meat a lovely glaze and flavour.
I would use it in a chicken and spinach recipe. One pot – fry chicken and a large onion, add spinach, a carton of passatta, Worcestershire sauce and approx half a can of Coca Cola Zero sugar – yumny
i would make a chocolate cola cake
I use coke when making gammon.
I really love the new coke zero. In the past I’ve done a diet version of cola chicken which would be perfect with the new coke zero!
I’d make some coke can chicken – basically pop a raw chicken onto a coke can and cook in the oven. You get a lovely coke taste to it – really tasty!
On my slimming world healthy eating plan I make Diet coke chicken so I’m guessing Zero Sugar will be fab too
I’d marinade steak to BbQ in it, I’d also make an apple pie cooking the apple in coke first and serving with vanilla custard
Those cakes look amazing. I’ve never used Coke in desserts. Time to change that…
My mum always cooked our Christmas ham in coca-cola! Everyone I told thought she was mad but it was SOOOOO good! Love it <3 #thelist
Great idea for a post – the dessert is my favourite! #thelist
You are so creative, I would never have thought of using Coca-cola in any cooking, let alone in every course. You are a genius! xxx
It tasted lovely too, thank you I’ll take genius and run with it ;-) xxx