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.
This is such a great recipe, but I dont have a crock pot big enough for a chicken to feed to whole family so I cook it in the oven at 325 in my roaster until it is done. And i never seem to have lemons but always have oranges so i end up using oranges and it adds a tangy to the BBQ sauce!
I read all the comments before making this. Some said it was terrific, some said the chicken breasts came out dry and lacked flavor. I hoped it would taste terrific because it’s so easy to put together. The bad news is mine came out dry but I think it is because my bird was small and I let it cook on low for too long. I will try it again and next time cook it on low for 5-6 hrs. Seven and 8 hrs is too long. For those who want it saucy, sauce is easy to make. Flour and some of the liquid in a saucepan can turn it into a nice gravy. If yours was dry, was it a small bird (like 2 lbs) and cooked it for a long time?
Great question! Hoping we’ll get some answers on it.
Another thing I wonder is the age of slow cookers as the ones more than ten years old (experts have said five even) aren’t as regulated in cooking temps as the new ones.
I’m so glad you posted this!
I made this today and It was delish! A word of warning though….I must have had a pretty big chicken in a normal size crockpot.. I went and did some errands and when I got back, the pot was sputtering like crazy. There was so much juice! I had just cleaned my kitchen from Ceiling to Floor and as I was moving the pot to a nearby location, the juice leaked out and made a puddle on my clean floor. The worst thing was that it dripped on my brand new Tom’s that I was wearing! I yanked that shoe off so fast and got the carpet stain remover to work it’s magic. Now I am wearing one shoe and the other is drying. Why don’t I just take the other one off? That would be too easy….
you ar the best cook i have ever heard about
What size chicken do you recommend?
I made this today and it took almost seven hours on high for me (I did open it once between five and six hours to temp it and remove some liquid because it was about to overflow). It fell apart when I took it out and was tasty except, because it was in for so long, the lemons (rind and pith) imparted a bitter taste to it. So next time I will just squeeze the juice of the lemon over the chicken and discard the rest. As I mentioned, I had to take several cups of liquid out with a turkey baster because it was about overflowing my 6 quart crock pot between the soda, the BBQ sauce and the juices it made. Definitely will get a smaller bird next time!
I am trying this tonight! Sounds like everyone loves it! cant wait!! =)