Coke Chicken Recipe

Coke Chicken Recipe or Coca-Cola Chicken recipe, is a popular dish loved by many as it creates a delicious tender and juicy chicken dish. Made of a whole chicken, seasoned with salt and pepper, filled with lemongrass, onions, garlic, and ginger. Simmered in Coca-Cola, oyster sauce, and soy sauce. A quick and easy coke chicken recipe that is absolutely finger lick’in good!

Coke Chicken Recipe :

Ingredients

• 1 kilo whole chicken
•  Salt and pepper to season
• 5 – 7 stalks lemongrass
• 2 medium onions ( 1 each chopped and minced )
• 7 cloves garlic ( crushed and minced )
• 2 thumbs ginger ( separated and sliced )
• 3 cups coca-cola ( Coke )
• 3 tablespoons oyster sauce
• 2 tablespoons soy sauce
• Oil for seasoning

Steps:

1. To prepare the chicken; season the whole chicken with salt and pepper. Pound the lemongrass stalks and tie this. 
2. Place this inside the chicken with the chopped onions, 4 crushed garlic, and 1 thumb sliced ginger. Seal with a toothpick. Heat some oil in a pan, and sear the chicken till all the sides have browned. Set aside.
3. In the same pan saute the minced garlic and onions. Add some lemongrass and 1 thumb sliced ginger cook till aromatic. Add back the seared chicken, pour in coca cola, oyster sauce, and soy sauce. Cover and simmer for 20 minutes at medium heat.
4. After, flip the chicken to cook evenly. Cover and simmer for another 20 minutes, at medium-low heat. Baste the chicken with the sauce, letting it cook uncovered till the sauce has thickened.
5. Slice before serving !

How to make the Best Coca Cola Chicken Recipe

Being one of many “Cooking with Coke Recipes” you can find on the internet. This deliciously glazed chicken is so easy and simple to make, you’ll be shocked to find out how flavor-packed it really is. An easy one pot dinner, or lunch meal prep dish, this and juicy chicken dish hits all the salty, savory, and sweet notes.

First; start with a clean whole chicken, if you like you can also use already cut out chicken, or certain parts of the chicken. It’s best to use chicken thighs if you want it more flavorful and ‘foolproof’ as thighs rarely get dry. The chicken is seasoned with a good amount of salt and pepper all around before adding in some stalks of pounded lemongrass- these are pounded to really bring out the aroma, some chopped ginger, onions and garlic that helps not only with the flavor but also help remove any foul smells the chicken might have. These are then tied with a toothpick before being seared in a pat with some oil, Browning all the sides till it has a nice sear. Setting this aside to rest while we make the Coca Cola Chicken Marinade; saute some onions, garlic, and ginger with some lemongrass till it smells amazing, then place back the chicken before pouring in a few cans of coke, some oyster sauce, and soy sauce. Give this a bit of a stir before covering and letting this simmer for a few minutes at medium heat. Flip the chicken after to let this cook evenly, simmer for a few more minutes now at low heat. Baste the chicken while letting it simmer till the sauce thickens. Serve immediately with a lot of freshly cooked white rice.

Questions ?

• Other soft drinks to use ?

While coke is a great drink to use for many savory dishes, you can also use your choice of soft drinks such as Pepsi for “Pepsi Chicken Recipe”, Sprite, RC cola, 7Up, or for those who want less sugar use diet Coke for a “Diet Coke Chicken Recipe” or any drinks that do say ‘less sugar’.  

• How to make Coke Chicken Recipe Chinese

This is a popular modernized chicken dish you can find some Chinese dramas or novels about. Called “Sticky Cola Chicken” or searched as “Coca Cola Chicken Recipe Chinese”, sometimes adding dried chili peppers in the marinade to spice it up, while this does not use lemongrass, it does make use of a lot of green onions, white pepper, star anise, bay leaves, and Shaoxing wine in the marinade. You can add or replace these ingredients with the recipe below if you’d like.

• Other Cooking methods
  • Coca Cola Chicken Wings Slow Cooker – to make this Coca Cola Chicken Slow Cooker style, simply place everything into the slow cooker and let this cook for 6 – 7 hours at low heat or 4 and a half hours to 5 hours at high heat. 
  • Pressure Cooker Coca Cola Chicken – which closely resembles the Coke Chicken Recipe Slow Cooker. Place everything in the instant pot, close the lid and seal the pressure valve. Cook at high for 12 – 15 minutes before carefully releasing for 5 minutes. Take the chicken out and check if it’s cooked before serving. Add 5 – 7 more minutes if it still needs to be cooked longer.
  • Coca Cola Roast Chicken – for a Coke Chicken Recipe in the Oven, mix all the marinade together before placing the chicken in a baking dish. Cover the chicken with the marinade and cover the pan with foil. Bake in a 350°F or 175°C preheated oven for 50 minutes, flipping in the middle or 3 times to make sure it’s fully cooked. Using a thermometer, poke the center of the chicken, the inner temperature should be around 165°F or 74°C.

• Additional ingredients
  • To make Spicy Coca Cola Chicken Wings; add in some chili, pepper flakes, sriracha or gochujang for some spice.
  • Add a rich vibrant red color with a strong savory taste by adding ¼  – ⅓ cup ketchup.
  • Like the example above, add seasonings like star anise, scoves, or bay leaves to have an almost 5 spice Chinese flavoring into the dish.
  • Make it a bit healthier by adding vegetables like carrots, potatoes, broccoli, mushrooms or some vegetables that need to be used up in the fridge.
  • Some like to add cured meats like sausage, hotdogs, or even chorizo.

Other Yummy Chicken Recipes!

• Butter Garlic Chicken Wings or Salted Egg Chicken WIngs Recipe
• Braised Chicken Recipe
• Creamy Tuscan Chicken
• Easy Fried Chicken and Gravy
• Chicken BBQ sa Kawali
• Crispy Chicken Nuggets with Spicy Dip
• For another soft-drink based recipe; try out this Sprite Chicken Wings

Coke Chicken Resipi: (Tagalog version)

Mga Sangkap :

• 1 kilo buong manok
•  Asin at paminta panlasa
• 5 – 7 tangkay ng tanglad
• 2 sibuyas ( 1 piraso hiniwa ng malalaki at isa na tinadtad )
• 7 butil ng bawang ( dinurog at tinadtad )
• 2 daliri ng luya ( hiwalay, at hiniwa )
• 3 tasa coca-cola ( Coke )
• 3 kutsarang oyster sauce
• 2 kutsarang soy sauce
• Mantika panluto

Paano Lutuin :

1. Ihanda ang manok; kuskusin ang manok ng asin at paminta. Durugin ang tanglad at taliin.
2. Ilagay ang tanglad sa loob ng manok kasama ng mga malalaking hiwa ng sibuyas, 4 na dinurog na bawang, 1 daliring luya. Isara gamit ang toothpick. Maginit ng mantika sa kawali at lutuin ang manok hanggang mag kayumanggi ang bawat gilid nito. Itabi.
3. Sa parehong kawali, lutuin ang tinadtad na bawang at sibuyas. Isama ng kaunting tanglad, at hiniwang luya at lutuin hanggang bumango. Ibalik ang manok at buhusan ng coca cola, oyster sauce, at soy sauce. Takpan at pakuluin ng 20 minuto sa katamtamang init.
4. Pagkatapos, pagkaliktarin para pumantay ang pagluto. Takpan at pakuluin muli ng 20 minuto sa mababaw na init. Ibaste ang manok at pakuluin na hindi nakatakip hanggang kumapal ang sarsa.
5. Ihiwa bago ihanda!