Orange Soda Slow Cooker Chicken
I am obsessed with this crockpot chicken recipe. It turns out an orange soda and chicken in a crockpot makes AMAZING orange soda slow cooker chicken! I seriously had no idea.
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To Make Orange Soda Slow Cooker Chicken You Need:
- 4-5 Chicken Breasts
- 1 Can Diet Orange Soda
- 1/3 Cup Soy Sauce
How To Make Orange Soda Slow Cooker Chicken:
Combine chicken, orange soda and soy sauce in a gallon freezer bag. Refrigerate overnight. Cook in a crockpot for 6-8 hours. Serve with rice. This crockpot chicken has a wonderful flavor!
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Orange Soda Slow Cooker Chicken
Ingredients
- 4-5 Chicken Breasts
- 1 Can Diet Orange Soda
- ⅓ Cup Soy Sauce
Instructions
- Combine chicken, orange soda and soy sauce in a gallon freezer bag. Refrigerate overnight. Cook in a crockpot for 6-8 hours. Serve with rice. It has a wonderful flavor!
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Not much flavor, and the photo has nothing to do with the recipe.
There are a lot of haters commenting. What on earth did y’all do to draw their wrath? I have made this recipe a few times for my picky eaters and we’ve liked it each time. No, it isn’t like the photo. Yes, it’s incredibly simple. That’s the point of cooking thrifty…
Thank you for sharing this recipe! Take care.
Recipe for the orange soda slow cooker chicken is decieving. Mine looked nothing like the pictures you posted and the taste was not that good. Either you left part of instructions off or you found a picture of another chicken dish. Very diasppointed.
Yeah I was gonna say… how on earth could just chicken, soy sauce and orange soda create chicken that looks like that.
So…….the original recipe was a bit bland, but a great idea! We added 2 cloves of garlic, smashed, used dark chinese soy sauce, added 1 T. toasted sesame oil, 1 piece star anise, and , after it finished cooking per the recipe, served it tossed with 4 green onions, skiced small, and a tablespoon on sesame seeds ( but I think you could use finely chopped cocktail peanuts just as well.). Pretty darned good, and dead easy!
Hi! This is your own recipe, not the recipe offered. Read the classic tale, “Stone Soup.”
Sounds great, but do you cook on high or low setting?
Wow, this must be the best example of recipe fraud I’ve come across. I clicked on it to see just how you could get the result in the photo from the slow cooker & by the comments below my suspicions were correct. The pic is of deep fried battered chicken with a sauce poured over it, this just sounds disgusting.
where is your print icon?
This was the most disgusting dish ever. No glaze, just orange tinged chicken and so dry and bland I wanted to vomit.
Why does it stipulate diet soda, can you use regular soda?
Seriously DO NOT TRY THIS. This might be one of the worst recipes I’ve ever tried. Like everyone else was saying, the chicken is dry and looks nothing like the photo. I’m not sure why I thought it would. It was very soupy and flavor is weird. Definitely the worst thing I’ve ever cooked!
Thank you for your warning. I was so tempted to make this, because ‘a wonderful flavor’ with such simple ingredients sounded too good to be true. And apparently it is.
This was GROSS…dry not at all like the picture.
I hardly ever comment on recipes. If I don’t like them, I just take them out of my recipe folder. But this one, I *have* to say something, so that others will be forewarned.
THAT PICTURE IS NOT WHAT YOU WILL GET IF YOU MAKE THIS RECIPE. That photo is a lie and there is no possible way you’ll get that with this method. That is a stock photo of orange chicken. It’s breaded and fried and coated with a syrupy orange sauce.
This sauce will be liquid. Even after I added two tablespoons of corn starch at the end, it was soupy. And I cooked it 9 hours (while I was at work). It will also be incredibly salty. Instead of diet soda, use regular soda and low-sodium soy sauce. Or up the amount of orange soda. Spice it up with a few shakes of red pepper flakes, and a dash of garlic powder (not salt, since you’re getting plenty of that in the soy sauce).
I would not recommend this recipe to anyone unless you want something very cheap (one can of soda and some soy sauce??) and very easy, but if you do make it, be advised that is it not going to look like or taste like any Orange Chicken you’ve ever had. Instead of it being Totally the Bomb, it was just a bomb.
Agree. A total disappointment. I tried adding cornstartch also and it was still like chicken soup. Don’t waste your time and money making this.
Made this tonight. Pay no attention to the picture attached to this recipe. That picture is what you expect from a regular Chinese food restaurant. This recipe was okay but I probably will not be doing it again. If you do decide to do this I suggest not cooking it for the full 8 hours. that gave it a burnt taste
Made this today and it looks nothing like the photo. It tastes ok, but not totally the bomb. It does not have the thick sauce as pictured.
can you make it i a pot if you dont have a slow cooker?
Is the chicken not breaded? It looks breaded.
why do you allow yourself to be such a cow?
That was rude
How much is “4-5 chicken breasts” in weight, please? I’ve some chopped chicken oieces in the freezer but don’t know how many breasts it would make!
I can’t wait to try this recipe! So easy and sounds delicious.
Thanks for sharing!
What part of this recipe sounds delicious?????????? The diet orange soda? Are you a friend of the chef? The picture shows sesame seeds. There are no sesame seeds in the recipe. Do you not lie to the public who’d waste its hard-earned money on such a crappy recipe. This sounds like fraud. I wonder.
Does it have to be diet soda or can it be regular? I can’t have aspartame & the Splenda stuff tastes weird.
This looks soooo good! Quick question, the picture looks like the chicken is cut up into bite size pieces. Does it do that naturally after it’s been cooking for 6-8 hours or do you cube it up at some point? Just wanted to ask before I attempt it 🙂 Thanks!!
I cut mine up. I also added some
Sesame seeds. I just like my chicken in pieces. I’m weird.
I’m the same way, Jamie! Thank you for replying back, I can’t wait to try the recipe 🙂
let me know how it goes!
Thank you. Its on the menu for dinner
Awesome! Let me know how it turns out!