Coca Cola Chicken Legs Recipe! Plus Coca Cola Brine!
These Coca Cola Chicken legs were a hit with the whole family! I know growing up I loved to get the drumstick aka chicken leg to eat! With age has come finer tastes and while I still enjoy a good chicken leg, nowadays I gravitate to chicken thighs.
Now I love to use Coca Cola to brine and flavor my meat! Weird looks are normally the reactions that I get when I tell someone I put Coca Cola in the brine! But if you have tough meat like a roast the soda really helps to tenderize the meat. Plus the flavor that Coca Cola adds a nice sweet taste to the meat as well.
Coca Cola Chicken Legs Recipe Ingredients:
- 5 Cans Of Coca Cola
- 2 Tbsp Worcestershire Sauce
- 1/2 Cup Brown Sugar
- 4 Tbsp Minced Garlic
- 4 Tbsp Salt
- Ice
- Chicken Legs
How To Make Coca Cola Chicken Legs Recipe Directions:
I started by mixing up a batch of my Coca Cola Brine.
Be sure that you are starting with a container or bag large enough to hold the liquid and meat, as well as ice.
I did this batch with five cans of Coca Cola.
Add the chicken legs to the container or bag.Mix in the other ingredients and whisk with a whisk if you can.
Add ice to keep cold or top with more Coca Cola if your meat is not covered.
Allow the legs to brine for at least four hours.
Now, I did decide to add just smoke to the chicken legs and I used Apple Pellets to smoke my meat but you could use any flavor.
I put the chicken legs on my Pit Boss around 1:20 and allowed them to cold smoke for four hours.
Then I turned up the grill and let them cook!!
Don’t worry if you chose not to smoke them they will turn out great still.
Serve and enjoy!
Coca Cola Chicken Legs Recipe! Plus Coca Cola Brine!
Recipe details
- 6 Pieces
- Prep time: 5 Minutes Cook time: 20 Minutes Total time: 25 min
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Did you also make a sauce to baste them with? Or did you just cold smoke and then turn up the heat to grill?