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’m making this tonight! I only had oranges instead of lemon so I used 2. I also increased the onions. I think this will turn out just delicious! 😀
Do you drain the sauce off afterwards or serve it in the sauce? I’m askeered to try this………..everything I make in a slow cooker tastes the same…………thin runny and blah!
this sounds so delicious I have chicken quarters defrosted. just gotta run to the store to get a can of coke. thanks for posting
My coworker & I both tried it this past weekend with fryer chickens. And both of our results were dry chicken. The meat did fall off the bone. But the white meat was cardboard. Cooked it on low for 8 hours. Would 6 hours on low get it to a safe internal temp w/o drying it out, you think? It was a smaller whole chicken, maybe 3.5 lbs.
Can you tell me a little about your slow cookers? It sounds like they’re cooking a little hot. How old are they?
Followed recipe to a T but disappointed by texture. Tasted good but everything fell apart except the breasts which were kind if dried out. Would like to have seen skin brown up a little from the sauce. Also, sauce was watery with chicken fat on top so couldn’t use for sauce!gravy on rice or potatoes. Any comments?
About how many calories per serving, and what is the serving size?
I have like 6 bottles of coke in the fridge due to one of our country’s holidays and I don’t know what to do with it. It’s not something we drink at all so this recipe would help get rid of some without wastage. 😉
Ooh also for a quick BBQ sauce mix one cup coke with one cup ketchup. Delicious!
I have a recipe for coca cola cake on here too!