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.
I haven’t try this recipe yet, but it sounds good. I mix diet coke in my bbq sauce when I cook on the grill outside and it tastes great. Also, I noticed that many people asked if you can use a frozen fryer, but you never replied. Do you know if you can? It seems like it would water down the sauce too much. Going to try it this week, can’t wait. Thanks for the idea!
Can you use a frozen fryer if you are cooking it all day? Shopping on Friday for the week but not making it until Thursday (scout night) so I will have to freeze it so it won’t spoil.
Thanks.
This looks wonderfu but, with my husband being diabetic, we are unable to have regular pop. We have a 0 carb barbecue sauce. Any idea if that plus a Diet Coke would work?
Hi Pamela, I think it would work just fine. The taste is going to be a little bit different but with your husband being diabetic you sometimes have to do what you have to do. I would try using whatever his favorite diet cola is so that the taste is similar to what he is used to.
Try using seltzer instead; it’s the carbonation that makes the meat tender. I’d rather use a nice lemon seltzer to complement the lemon flavor than add that fake sugar flavor to the meat. I have used it before in other slow cooker recipes that call for soda.
Does it matter if I use a boneless whole chicken? Or even just several boneless-skinless breasts? This sounds yummy, and very easy… but the one thing we don’t “do” in this house is chicken bones.
Can lemon lime soda be used? I don’t usually keep soda in my house, however I do have some lemon lime. I really want to try but can’t get to store as I have a few sick kids at home.
Planning on trying this recipe this week. My only problem is the recipe doesn’t say what size bottle of BBQ sauce.
Just the regular size Mischa, the great thing about this recipe is it doesn’t have to be exact, just in the ballpark.
I tried this tonight, and unfortunately it was very bland and my chicken was dry. Maybe it was the BBQ sauce I used?? Bummer:(