Coca Cola Chicken

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Sweet, savory, and irresistibly sticky—Coca-Cola chickenhearted is made easy successful 1 pan.

Crispy chickenhearted thighs are slow-cooked successful a sticky-sweet cola condiment made pinch pantry ingredients and served complete veggies aliases rice.

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Flavor: Fried chickenhearted successful Coca-Cola creates a sweet, savory, and caramelized glaze that tenderizes and infuses nan nutrient pinch flavor.
Difficulty: Cook nan chickenhearted and nan condiment successful a azygous cookware for easy cleanup.
Prep Note: Serve Coca-Cola chickenhearted from a crock cookware pinch a broadside of rice truthful guests tin thief themselves.

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What’s successful Coca-Cola Chicken?

Chicken: This look uses chickenhearted thighs because they make cleanable azygous portions, but skin-on breasts, drumsticks, and chickenhearted wings will each activity perfectly.

Coca-Cola Sauce: Any cola merchandise (diet, Dr. Pepper, aliases guidelines beer) useful successful this recipe, nary request to bargain nan sanction brand.

Variations

Short connected time? Use stiff chickenhearted meatballs instead. Just flip them successful astatine Step 2. Perfect arsenic an appetizer.
Make a accepted Chinese type of Coca-Cola chicken, replacing nan Worcestershire condiment pinch soy condiment and nan barren mustard for crushed ginger.
Ketchup tin beryllium swapped retired for BBQ condiment aliases homemade chili sauce for a spicy kick.

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How to Make Coca-Cola Chicken

Brown seasoned chicken.
Whisk remaining ingredients (full look below) and move complete nan chicken.
Bring to a boil, trim heat, and simmer.
Serve pinch atom aliases veggies.

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Storing Leftovers

Keep leftover Coca-Cola chickenhearted successful a covered instrumentality successful nan refrigerator for up to 4 days. Reheat chickenhearted pinch condiment connected medium-low power connected nan stovetop aliases successful nan microwave. Freeze portions successful zippered bags for up to 1 period and thaw successful nan refrigerator earlier reheating.

Chop up leftovers pinch other atom aliases veggies and make a hearty wrap for schoolhouse aliases work, aliases operation leftovers into an Asian slaw for a ray and tangy salad.

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Coca Cola Chicken

This Coca-Cola chickenhearted is simply a simple, one-pan repast pinch tender, juicy chickenhearted simmered successful a saccharine and savory condiment for a deliciously sticky glaze.

Prep Time 25 minutes

Cook Time 30 minutes

Total Time 55 minutes

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▢ 1 tablespoon olive oil
▢ 2 pounds bone-in skin-on chickenhearted thighs or drumsticks
▢ ¼ teaspoon salt
▢ ¼ teaspoon black pepper
▢ ½ small yellow onion diced
▢ 12 ounces cola regular aliases diet
▢ ½ cup ketchup
▢ 1 clove garlic minced
▢ 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
▢ 1 tablespoon brown sugar
▢ ½ teaspoon dried oregano
▢ ½ teaspoon dry mustard powder

Heat oliva lipid successful a ample non-stick skillet complete mean heat. Season chickenhearted pinch brackish and pepper. Add chickenhearted tegument broadside down and navigator conscionable until browned connected each broadside (about 5 minutes). Drain immoderate excess fat.
Combine onions, cola, ketchup, garlic, worcesterchire sauce, brownish sugar, oregano, barren mustard powder successful a mini bowl. Pour complete nan chickenhearted and bring to a boil. Reduce power to mean debased and cover. Simmer 15 minutes.
Remove lid, and simmer an further 25 to 30 minutes turning chickenhearted occasionally until chickenhearted is cooked done and has reached 165°F.
Serve pinch atom and steamed veggies.

Note: If you’d for illustration a thicker sauce, erstwhile nan chickenhearted is cooked, region from nan cookware and group aside. Make a slurry of ⅓ cup h2o and 2 tablespoons cornstarch. Bring condiment to a boil and while whisking, move successful a spot of nan slurry astatine a clip to scope desired consistency (you whitethorn not request each of it). Allow to boil 1 infinitesimal and flip pinch chicken.

Keep leftovers successful an airtight instrumentality successful nan refrigerator for 4 days.

Nutrition accusation provided is an estimate and will alteration based connected cooking methods and brands of ingredients used.

Course Chicken, Dinner, Main Course

Cuisine American

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Holly Nilsson is nan creator of Spend With Pennies, wherever she creates easy, comforting recipes made for existent life. With a passion for nostalgic flavors and simplified techniques, Holly helps engaged location cooks create delicious meals that ever work. She is besides nan writer of “Everyday Comfort,” which promises to animate moreover much hearty, home-cooked meals.
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