Checking the weather earlier in the week, it claimed Saturday was going to be coolish. Cool weather makes me think of Fall, Fall makes me think of roasts so I bought a small roasting chicken while grocery shopping this week. Saturday came and it was stinkin hot outside, but the air conditioning was running so I pretended it was cold enough for roast chicken. I made Coca Cola Can Roast Chicken. The first time I have ever roasted a whole chicken on my own!
I saw people doing this with Beer and we don’t drink beer so I did Coke.
Can of coke
BBQ Sauce (I used our favourite President’s Choice Smokin Stampede Beer and Chipotle)
Garlic Powder
Paprika
Take out your middle oven rack and preheat Oven to 350 F.
Wash the outside of the can of Coke BEFORE you open it. Open the can and drain about half of the can out. You MUST OPEN THE CAN, or else it will blow up your oven. Reserve the Coke for later.
Place the can in the centre of a large roasting pan. (Don’t use a high edge pan, you want a crispy ass chicken. A cookie sheet may work but I wanted to prevent splatter in the oven).
Wash your hands and disinfect your sink. (I used my bare hands for this whole process so there aren’t many prep pictures, I know I suck as a blogger but meh.)
Rinse chicken with water.
Pry the skin up of the chicken and squirt BBQ sauce under the skin. I also poured some in the neck and butt holes. Maybe half a cup in total (I don’t measure when I do my own recipes!)
I took the reserved coke and poured it over the chicken. I thought I needed something moist to hold the rub on, but the chicken was moist from his water rinse. (I could have skipped this step but thought it was fun at the time.)
Liberally sprinkle the chicken with Garlic Powder and Paprika (If you are feeling crazy sprinkle a little cayenne as well.)
Gently place chicken’s butt hole over the can. He should slide down with no problem if he isn’t too small.
I use a meat thermometer on everything as I rather it do the work for me.
I checked on him periodically. It didn’t look super moist on the outside so I kept basting him to make sure he was moist. About half way through, I added about a cup of water to the pan to create more juice to baste. Part way through I realized his one wing and his top was getting darker then the rest so I placed a peace of tin foil on top so he wouldn’t char.
This bad boy took 1.5 hours to cook. (Size will reflect cooking time!)
When the meat thermometer went off, I pulled this guy out.
I used two forks and gently lifted the chicken up, (Only lift the chicken up about an inch or so at the most to start the sliding process, be gentle and don't spill the can as the pop is boiling hot!) the pop can slid gently out.
(It really was Coca Cola in there. I was too cheap to by a case of Coke for one can, a bottle was cheaper. So I filled a washed out generic pop can with Coca Cola. Regular Coke, not Diet.)
The bones literally fell right off. It was so moist and tasty, but it didn't taste like Coke! Not bad for my first roast chicken!
We froze the leftovers for chicken tacos later this week!
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