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: 1 hr 35 mins
• Yields: 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)

• SAUCE

• 1  cup  Coca-Cola (or any brand of cola flavoured soda)
• 1  cup ketchup
•  some barbecue sauce, to suit your tastes (optional)

Directions

1. Stir together your sauce ingredients, and pour over your chicken pieces in the baking dish.
2. (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).
3. 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.
4. This recipe offers possibilities to add spices to suit your taste, so please, experiment!