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.
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Going to try this tonight for a few friends coming over. Looks great! Wish me luck!
Thank you for a recipe guaranteed for beginners…I might just be allowed to cook in the kitchen without adult supervision now! My usual supervisor (mom ;>) and I were wondering how this dish would turn out if we made the lemon taste more of the star. Could we use something like Sprite or 7UP? And, what if…I’m so afraid to even write this…what if we left out the BBQ sauce to add stock or another kind of liquid? Have no doubt, we LOVE our BBQ and we ARE southern…we just wondered if we could make variations to get a 2-for-1 recipe…? Thanks so much!
Absolutely, Jane! The crock pot is a great place to experiment! Keep in mind with the lemon that you put it in with the peel on so you’re getting a lot more POW from your lemon than you would if you just used juice. Any type of carbonated beverage would be great. What you generally want to do in crock pot cooking is add a thicker as well, such as gravy or bbq sauce.
However, I can pretty much guarantee that all experiments will be successful, just steer clear of water. Anytime you want to use water, I’d definitely opt for chicken broth instead. Cream soups are also amazing in the crock pot also.
If it were me, I’d try it out with lemon, seven up, and bbq sauce. BUT if you want to leave out the bbq sauce, I bet it will still be awfully good.
Wow, i’m long winded tonight, aren’t I?
Hope I made sense!
Gratefully,
Christy 🙂
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Hi thanks for sharing that I’ll definitely will try it. I always like to find new recipes…looks and sounds easy enough to do. Would you mind if I add this recipe to my blog?
Bill You did all that and STILL didn’t invite me to supper?!?!?! ~hangs her head in sorrow~
Tina You’re absolutely right about the chicken! your son is such a cutie!!
Matthews I had to laugh when I read this! We are the same way here! My kids see me putting the ingredients in and turn up their noses but by the time they get home from school its like we are all being tortured having to smell that wondrous aroma and wait to eat it!!!
I do hope y’all enjoy it, but I just know you will! It is sooooooo good!!!!! Let me know what they say!! Have a good supper!!
Christy 🙂
We having this brewing in our crock pot right now. At first the kids were shocked/grossed out by the ingredients. But now they are home from school and the smell is driving us all mad with hunger! Six O’clock can’t come soon enough!
Umm there is something about a whole chicken that is just simply the best. I am going to try this I love whole chickens in the slow cooker the meat just falls apart. The flavors of the sauce sound so good. My son told me to make it after he saw the picture.
I just finished the Cola chicken.. It was awesome!
I also put some pork ribs on the smoker with pecan wood from my neighbors pecan tree that continually drops limbs in my yard. (ain’t complaining, free wood!)
What a great day!