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 in my crock pot now, smells so good. 😀 I’m using chicken breasts instead of a whole chicken, so I hope it turns out ok, I’ve heard that breasts dry out in a slow cooker.
Thanks for the recipe.
I hope you liked it Jennifer, but it does turn out differently when using chicken breasts versus a whole chicken.
Sounds and looks amazing! Do u think I could use 2 small cornish hens instead of a fryer?
I don’t see why not Linda, I think they would work just fine.
Cooking 101 question – How do you serve the chicken after you take it out of the crockpot? – Do you cut it up, shred it? Do you remove the skin?
When you take it out of the slow cooker it is going to fall completely apart. So I just scoop up the pieces and put them on a plate.
Annie, yes you can put frozen meat in a crock pot. Cook on low. Butter stewed potatoes: https://southernplatecom.bigscoots-staging.com/2010/03/butter-stewed-potatoes.html
Hope this helps!
How do you make stewed potatoes in butter sauce? Sounds yummy!
Hi, Does anyone know if you can put frozen chicken or any other frozen meat right into a crock pot and cook all day?
Made this tonight and my husband ate almost the entire chicken! Even my picky 3 year old had a few pieces. Thanks for this super easy recipe. We’ll definitely be hving it again.