Slow Cooker Coke Chicken ~#1 On My List Of “Things I like to toss in the crock pot.”
Get ready to enjoy this Slow Cooker Coke Chicken but first…
I’m getting ready for Apple Week this weekend, preparing some last minute apple recipe tutorials and getting posts written up and queued for this and my other blog for al.com, so we’re having a bit of a slow weekend. I wanted to post my mother’s tutorial on Buttermilk Cornbread, but she isn’t home right now and I’m missing a few photographs I need.
So, in honor of our Slow Cooker Giveaway (Congrats again, Beverly!), I am going to post this recipe. I hesitate to call this a recipe as it really is so very easy that there doesn’t seem to be any real cooking involved. The outcome though, is wonderful.
This works with pork chops, boneless breasts, ribs, and even roast. I ask that you first try it with a fryer if at all possible, though. There is a magic that takes place when you cook a fryer like this that just doesn’t happen with other cuts of meat, even boneless skinless breasts. The fryer, after slow cooking all day in this amazing blend of flavors, becomes completely permeated with the flavor and literally falls off of the bone. Every shred of chicken, even the inside meat, is tinted the color of your sauce, proving that it has completely saturated the bird.
The flavor is so amazing! I like to serve this with stewed potatoes in butter sauce and a simple dinner roll. The chicken steals the show.
*Yes, you can make this with another carbonated beverage, it just needs to be carbonated and have sugar in it.
Ingredients
- 1 Fryer
- 1 Lemon
- 1 Onion
- 1 Bottle BBQ Sauce
- 1 Can Coca Cola
Instructions
- Peel onion and cut into quarters. Cut lemon into Quarters. Place fryer in crock pot. Toss in onion quarters and lemon quarters. Pour in entire bottle of BBQ Sauce and entire can of Coke. Cover and cook on low all day or high 3 to four hours.
Can you use a frozen chicken? If so, is it the standard 8 hours?
Trying this for the first time. Hubby had to work so I put it on at his job before church. Waiting for it to finish. It smells amazing! Thanks for the recipe!
I hope you enjoyed it Keya!!
Trying this today…. did everything your recipe said to do. Cant wait to try it tonight 🙂 gonna make instant potatoes and pea & carrots and rolls for sides. 🙂
I hope you enjoyed it Tanja!
I made this a few weeks ago and my kids LOVED it as did some friends that came over. I feed 11 people at a time so I made 2 crocks of chicken. In one I used a can of Dr Pepper and in the other a can of Rootbeer bc that’s all I had. OMG it was sooo good! I’m making it again today…I’m wondering what would happen if I used the bottle of flat soda I have stored in the office???
Hmmm, I am not sure JoLynn. I have never used a flat soda. If you try it let me know how it turns out. I am so glad to hear that everyone loved it!!
I made the crock-pot chicken tonight. I left the breast up and it dried out terribly. The underside did cook very well and we pulled what we could off the bone. It smelled great as it was cooking but turned out bland. We added more BBQ sauce on the plate. I think the bird was too large and should have been rotated to get the juices throughout. Unfortunately I had to throw most of the good part away. I would recommend adding more sauce the last hour in the crockpot also.
Can you use split chicken breast instead of whole chicken. We don’t care for dark meat. Also, do you leave the skin on?
Tried this and wanted to love it, but I didn’t think it was good. It had no flavor at all. Maybe if you added more bbq sauce to at the end it would have been OK. It was very bland…