Coke Chicken
"This recipe is meant as a 'suit to taste' recipe. Please feel free to use spices you enjoy with ketchup-based sauces. Or feel free to brine your chicken PRIOR to placing this coke sauce on it. The sauce is great on the chicken, but a few people have complained that the flavor does not penetrate the skin, so all I can say is, You're a chef now, EXPERIMENT! *smile*"
- Ready In:
- 1hr 35mins
- Ingredients:
- 4
- Yields:
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1 baking dish of chicken
ingredients
- bone-in skin-on chicken piece, enough to cover the bottom of your baking dish (use whatever pieces you enjoy eating)
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SAUCE
- 1 cup Coca-Cola (or any brand of cola flavoured soda)
- 1 cup ketchup
- some barbecue sauce, to suit your tastes (optional)
directions
- Stir together your sauce ingredients, and pour over your chicken pieces in the baking dish.
- (you can choose to leave this in the fridge to marinate a few hours, or go ahead and put it in the oven right away).
- Bake at 375 degrees for 1 hour to 1 hour 30-mins depending on the size of pieces you used. (I've never had this burn on to the bottom of a casserole dish.. Around the sides of the pan, the sauce will bubble up a little and carmelize, but everything should come clean with a regular hot water and soap soaking). Feel free to spritz your baking dish with cooking spray though if you've had trouble with things burning on to your pans.
- This recipe offers possibilities to add spices to suit your taste, so please, experiment!
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Reviews
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Mini. R, as I am a newbie and don't know how to respond specifically to you, I'm posting here, hope you find it.. I don't grease my pan, but I use a Corningware casserole dish when I make this, and I've never had trouble with anything sticking on that won't come off with a lil' soak in hot water. The bit of sauce that kinda bubbles up on the upper edge of the pan does 'carmelize' (or burn) a lil' bit, but not too bad, and nothing has stuck on to the bottom in my experience. Thanks for your inquiry! -
I was in search of something different to make with the chicken leg quarters that I had pulled from the freezer and I decided to try this. I used 7 chicken leg quarters and increased the measurements to 1 1/2 cups of each--our family likes sauce.I added 1/3 cup of "Kraft Onion" bar-b-que sauce, 1 tsp of garlic powder, 1 tsp of celery salt and I also sprinkled each piece of chicken with chili powder. I did end up baking it for about 2 hours because my chicken had not fully defrosted when I put it in the oven. The results were surprisingly good.(Who would have thought of Coke and Chicken??) The chicken was very moist and the sauce was tasty.It was a real hit with my 4 year old as she ate as much of it as I did!! -
Doesnt this require greasing of dish or adding some kind of fat/oil/butter etc. as the ingredients might just stick to the bottom while in the oven and might burn considering the time and temperature you have mentioned for the recipe. Please share your views on this. I wonder if you have tried this yourself. [Editor's Note: recipe updated as a result of these comments 3/24/03]
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My best friend's family, when I was a kid, always used equal parts coke and ketchup to make their BBQ sauce for grilled chicken. I loved it! So easy and yet very tasty. I don't remember what brand ketchup they used but I'm sure that might make a difference since some are sweeter than others. Thanks for the stroll down memory lane! -
I wish I had paid attention to "Pamela in Winnepeg's" comments before I fixed this. Preparing it as it's given wasn't very good to me. The ketchup made the dish too sweet (unless you love-e-e ketchup) and the coke altered the texture of the chicken without giving it any real "taste" that I could tell. Maybe if I'd doctored it up a bit with some seasonings it would've been better. I won't fix this again. I don't think Coke goes so well on chicken as it does on other meats like pot roast or brisket 'cause I don't like what it does to the texture of the meat.
RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
MapleLeafLili Hill
Athens, Georgia
As a recent Immigrant to the U.S. of A., I'm passing my time baking and doing crafts,
I came here from Alberta, Canada in August of 2002. When I lived in Alberta, I spent my afternoons/evenings working the later shift in an Oat and Barley Flour mill owned and operated by ConAgra Foods. My interest in baking peaked while I worked at this mill. Many oatmeal and/or barley inclusive recipes have worked their way into my collection over time. And Quaker oats, are NOTHING compared to ConAgra Oats. Keep an eye out for my baked good recipes, coming soon, and as often as I make them. I come from a german-canadian background, with a little polish, irish, ukranian thrown in... I also took an interest in trying ethnic dishes, so a few of those recipes are lying around too.
In my spare time I do crafts as well, basically including balloon-twisting, face-painting, tatted lace making, parchment card making, sewing, and scrapbooking.
My hubby builds computers, so due to our abundance of the machines, I also spend time surfing the net, and playing computer games.
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