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.
Okay, Christy ~ got my chicken in the slow cooker right now! I’ll let y’all know how it works out … I used spicy BBQ sauce (’cause we’re spicy like that) and Ginger Beer (the only soda in the house). Can’t WAIT to try this! Thanks for offering the recipe to all of us.
I live on the South Carolina coast and am in need of some hands on cooking lessons from you Christy. So, I’m thinking that you could just plan a “cooking at the beach” vacation…LOL. That would be so awesome!
Can diet soda work for those of us that have to watch our sugars
Made this last night – everyone enjoyed and it was declared a “do over” by my daughter!
This was easy and delicious. I made mine with chicken breasts, boneless and skinless. Yummy : )
What is considered all day? I leave fore work at 8 and we would eat until around 6. Is that too long? I could get my dad to turn it on on his lunch break. That’s be about 8 hours. Better?
go ahead and put it on low and as long as you have a newer slow cooker it will work out just fine 🙂 The chicken will likely fall off the bone as you try to get it out and it will be DELICIOUS
Thanks! (Sorry about that last message, my grammar was horrible, looks like a five year old wrote it :/ )
Call me crazy, but I added a few squirts of Sriracha sauce, a little liquid smoke, and some dry mustard to the mix.