One of our favorite recipes to throw in the crock pot, this Coke Chicken is delicious for an easy, weeknight meal.

Coke chicken is easy and delicious! There is something about these flavors slow cooking with the meat that brings out a really unique and yummy flavor. Better yet, breaking out the slow cooker is perfect for busy weeknight meals as your prep work is mostly done in the morning! I like to serve this with stewed potatoes in butter sauce and a simple dinner roll. The chicken steals the show.

This recipe is super versatile and 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.

Serve with a side of Strawberry Salad With Zesty Honey Mustard Dressing and Stewed Potatoes and you will have the perfect meal.

Why You’ll Love Coke Chicken

Easy: The use of a slow cooker makes this a set-it-and-forget-it meal. Prep it in the morning and forget about it until you serve in the evening!
Versatile: You can use your favorite meat in this meal! Try pork, roast, boneless chicken breasts, whatever your family’s favorite is! You can also make this with a different carbonated beverage, as long as it is carbonated and has sugar in it.
Crowd-pleaser: Everyone loves this meal. Even the pickiest eaters love it every time!

Ingredients You Need to Make Coke Chicken:

A whole fryer chicken
Coca Cola
BBQ Sauce
an onion
a lemon

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How to Make Coke Chicken:

Peel your onion and cut onion and lemon into quarters. That’s all, just make yourself four wedges and you’re done!

Put your chicken in the crock pot.

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Toss that lemon and onion onto the chicken.

Pour whole bottle of BBQ Sauce over it.

Pour whole can of Coke over it.

Put the lid on and cook on low all day long or high for 3 to 4 hours. This is great to put on in the morning before you go to work. Your house will smell phenomenal when you come home.

Here is what your coke chicken will look like when it’s done. All cooked up and ready for your plates!

How to Serve Coke Chicken:

I like to serve this one of two ways. You can pull bits of chicken off and serve it with a more breast-like portion of chicken, like so:

OR you can shred the chicken and serve on a roll, like this:

I also like to serve this with a side stewed potatoes in butter sauce and a simple dinner roll. Also consider a side salad for a lighter feel. The chicken steals the show either way!

Slow Cooker Coke Chicken

Slow Cooker Coke Chicken : The flavor is so amazing! I like to serve it with stewed potatoes in butter sauce and a simple dinner roll.

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Prep Time: 8

Cook Time: 6

Total Time: 6 8

Course: Main Course

Cuisine: American

Keyword: chicken, coke

Servings:

Calories: 1087kcal

Ingredients

1 Chicken
1 Lemon
1 Onion
1 Bottle BBQ Sauce
1 Can Coca Cola

Instructions

Peel onion and cut into quarters. Cut lemon into Quarters. Place chicken 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.

Nutrition

Calories: 1087kcal

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174 Comments

Hot Garlic: Welcome to Southern Plate! Please do enter the apple recipe contest, I know you’d have something awesome to add!!!!

It is so great to have you here! I still have to send a thank you email to the leftover queen! Wasn’t that nice of her?

Bayou Belles: Welcome to Southern Plate!! I went to your blog and just absolutely loved loved loved it! I do hope you all fare well during Gustav, please keep us posted. I will have my fingers crossed and breath held for you and your lovely home!

Hey Bill! I use my favorite brand: Generic! hehe. In case y’all haven’t noticed, I rarely use a name brand anything. My generic is similar to Kraft regular bbq sauce.

Actually, my brother is getting ready to open his own BBQ restaurant and I have developed a signature bbq sauce for him. It has a very unique flavor and has been winning out on all of the other sauces we put it up against in taste tests, including one of the big ones in our state. I keep threatening to publish the recipe here!
It is killing me not being able to share it because as you can tell, I share ALL of my recipes!!!!

Leslie! Thank you so very much! I am awestruck that you would even look through my cookbook! You are such an AMAZING cook!!! Did you read about what happened to my camera, when I dropped it into the chocolate cake batter? I am holding out hope (against all odds) that I might finally get a camera suitable for food photography now, although I have no aspirations to being able to photograph like you do!

Love your blog … adding you to my cooking blogroll. Keep up those great recipes.

Hey Southern Plate! Congrats on being featured in the FFF. And from the looks of all of your delicious recipes you certainly deserve it. I love Southern food {who doesn’t?} and I will definitely be back for a second helping. Maybe I’ll even enter your Apple Recipe contest.

Have fun on your Disney Trip, I see you haven’t got long to wait, how exciting!

Oh yes missy,,I saw this in your cookbook! I got it yesterday!
GREAT JOB!! Oh my my…I gained 10 lbs just looking through it! Everything looks sooo yummy sooo easy and soooo southern..LOVE IT!
I even caught my husband peeking through it!