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.
Sounds good. What size bottle of BBQ sauce do you use?
Hi wanting to try this at home just a few questions, how big of bottle of sauce? Could i use a smokey bbq sauce? And could i throw in a few garlice cloves?
Kind regards kristy
This was really good, and was a lifesaver on a busy day! I threw everything in the crockpot around 6:00 in the morning, and when I got home at 5:00, the house smelled great! Got ready for a meeting that night and ate around 6:00 before heading out. The chicken was fall-apart tender and it had good flavor. I do add garlic to everything, so 2 garlic cloves went in with the onion and lemon, and I did season the bird with salt, pepper, and garlic powder before cooking. Also, the timing was perfect for me, as my bird was still a teensy bit frozen when I put it in. Leftovers were great shredded, with more bbq sauce, for sandwiches later! Thanks for a great recipe!
P.S. good response to the negative health nut. Any meal, even those with high fat or sodium or calories, are acceptable for 90% of people if they’re an every-now-and-then thing. Sometimes, you just gotta throw caution to the wind and EAT YUMMY FOOD!!!
I like you Mandy!!! Yummy food is the best and we all need a treat now and again!