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The secret is out: My house is into watching sports and our favorite part is the FOOD!!! Like any busy mom, I have a limited amount of time to prep and cook the food, so my favorite appliance is — of course – my slow cooker! With my kids, they tend to get in a food rut with their favorites, so we make sure to change up their favorite dishes often. With the excitement of The Big Tournament coming up, Micheal and I brainstormed a new twist for sliders. We decided to make some Coca-Cola Zero™ Basketball Chicken BBQ Sliders in the slow cooker. Plus, making the buns into “basketballs” was a fun adventure in the kitchen as well. We had to add in our favorite cookie treat as well: OREOS!!
Coke Zero Basketball Chicken BBQ Sliders Ingredients:
- 3 to 4 boneless skinless chicken breasts
- 1 or 2 cans of Coke Zero
- 1 bottle BBQ sauce (we used honey BBQ sauce)
- Minced garlic, to taste
Coke Zero Basketball Chicken BBQ Sliders Directions:
Spray the inside of your slow cooker with a non-stick spray. I used my 8-quart crock pot to make my sliders. I love that it is big enough to cook a large amount of food at once! Plus you can order one on Amazon easily so you don’t even have to leave the house, order and bam UPS man is saving dinner time for you when you use Amazon Prime 2 day delivery! (Don’t have Prime?? You NEED this for easy online shopping!!)
Hamilton Beach
Slow Cooker, 8-Quart
Place the chicken breasts in the slow cooker and cover with minced garlic. I like to spread mine on like a paste.
Pour in the Coke Zero. I used two 8 oz. bottles! Be sure to base this on the amount of chicken you use. You want to make sure you are covering the bottom of the slow cooker with liquid to keep the meat nice and moist.
Cover your slow cooker with the lid and cook on low for 6 to 8 hours.
Use a meat thermometer to verify that your meat has reached a safe internal temperature of 160° F. Once you have verified that your chicken is finished cooking, carefully remove the meat from the slow cooker.
You can either place the chicken on a plate to shred using two forks or use gloves to pull the meat into shreds. My favorite option is to use a Kitchen Aid mixer with a paddle on low to slowly shred the chicken. This method beats burning your hands trying to shred the chicken, and it takes next to no time to get it done.
KitchenAid Professional 600 Series Bowl-Lift Stand Mixer, 6 Quart
Once the meat is shredded, place it into a bowl and mix with BBQ sauce. You can add your sauce to the bowl and mix with a fork or your hands, ensuring the sauce is distributed well. If you want, you can also pour in a bit more Coke Zero to give the meat more flavor.
Now you are ready to scoop and serve!
Basketball Bun Ingredients:
- Slider buns
- Yellow and red food coloring
- Food pen (We used a candy pen)
The food pen was hard to find in the store, but thank goodness for Amazon I don’t know how parents did it before!! Luckily you can find the supplies for this on Amazon for a great price and no running around to stores to find it. Plus you can order a set on Amazon so you don’t even have to leave the house, order and bam UPS man is saving dinner time for you when you use Amazon Prime 2 day delivery! (Don’t have Prime?? You NEED for easy online shopping!!)
McCormick Food Colors & Egg Dye, Four Assorted, 0.25-Ounce VialsBlack Edible Food Pen for Cake DecoratingGood Cook Classic Set of 2 Pastry / Basting Brush
Basketball Bun Directions:
Mix together yellow and red food coloring to make an orange.
Be sure to put on gloves or it will dye your hands like it did mine!
Use a pastry brush to lightly coat the bun with orange food coloring. Allow the buns about 5 minutes to dry. Use a food pen to draw on basketball lines
*Draw slow mine tore the buns a bit*
Place the pulled chicken onto your basketball buns. You can use other buns, but my kids just love the slider buns! They are the perfect size for their smaller hands. Serve with your favorite side dish, or, in our case, potato chips and OREOS!
After we ate our sliders, we had to have an OREO dunking contest! The kids were so excited to be allowed to play with their food, so they had a contest of dunking them in milk to make their own tournament!
Be sure to visit cokeplaytowin.com/tastethemadness for a chance to win NCAA prizes.
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- 3 to 4 boneless skinless chicken breasts
- 2 8oz bottles of Coke Zero
- 1 bottle BBQ sauce (we used honey BBQ sauce)
- Minced garlic, to taste
- Slider buns
- Yellow and red food coloring
- Food pen (We used a candy pen)
- Spray the inside of the slow cooker with a non-stick spray.
- Place the chicken breasts in the slow cooker and cover with minced garlic. I like to spread mine on like a paste.
- Pour in the Coke Zero. I used two 8 oz. bottles! Be sure to base this on the amount of chicken you use. You want to make sure you are covering the bottom of the slow cooker with liquid to keep the meat nice and moist.
- Cover your slow cooker with the lid and cook on low for 6 to 8 hours.
- Use a meat thermometer to verify that your meat has reached a safe internal temperature of 160° F. Once you have verified that your chicken is finished cooking, carefully remove the meat from the slow cooker.
- You can either place the chicken on a plate to shred using two forks or use gloves to pull the meat into shreds. My favorite option is to use a kitchen mixer with a paddle on low to slowly shred the chicken.
- Once the meat is shredded, place it into a bowl and mix with BBQ sauce. You can add your sauce to the bowl and mix with a fork or your hands, ensuring the sauce is distributed well. If you want, you can also pour in a bit more Coke Zero to give the meat more flavor.
- Now you are ready to scoop and serve!
- Mix together yellow and red food coloring to make an orange.
- Be sure to put on gloves or it will dye your hands!
- Use a pastry brush to lightly coat the bun with orange food coloring. Allow the buns about 5 minutes to dry. Use a food pen to draw on basketball lines
- Place the pulled chicken onto your basketball buns. You can use other buns, but my kids just love the slider buns! They are the perfect size for their smaller hands. Serve with your favorite side dish, or, in our case, potato chips and OREOS!
Plus be sure to check out our other great Coca Cola Recipes!
Coke Zero BBQ Crock Pot Chicken
Coca Cola Pulled Pork Sandwiches
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I am always looking for simple slow cooker recipes and this just looks delicious. I think my family would love it and the cute basketball buns too. Gotta love an OREO dunking contest, perfect to celebrate the basketball tournament! 🙂 #client
loved this article nice photos makes me want one
This looks like a lot of fun. A bit outside my diet but it would be great for that special game.
These looks soooo good! I’ve made a few things with coke but not with coke zero. I’m sure they taste as good as they look.
ohhh love bbq and using the crockpot is perfect! Hubby will grill out year round if the weather is nice but this would be great for those off days! Thanks for the coke zero bbq recipe!
Jenny, Looking so forward to trying your recipe! It really looks great and perfect for a gathering too. Thanks for sharing!
~Laurie
I absolutely love these colorful food! I’m sure that having food should be for fun. 🙂
These sliders look great and what a unique flavor combination. Sounds delicious!
What a FUN meal! One can never go wrong with BBQ and Oreos! 🙂 Thanks for sharing that you don’t add the bbq sauce to the crockpot — I always do, and it is always watering. Now I know…!
I love how the buns came out! I’ve never seen anything like that before. You’re so creative!!!
The Oreo dunk was a really good idea as was the painted buns. I’m looking forward to trying your recipe. This looks like it was a really fun shop!
Looks very tasty – Thank you for sharing with Pin-worthy Wednesday Jenny
Very creative! Thanks for joining us at From the Archives Friday!
Great idea to color the buns. Such a unique way to make a fun themed meal. Thanks for sharing on Merry Monday.
These look great. I’ve tried to make diet coke chicken in a pan before but it didn’t have much taste. I’ll have to try it in the slow cooker now I’ve seen this.
Are you able to add a link back to my link up so that others can find it please?
Sally @ Life Loving
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Sounds yummy!
These sandwiches look amazing! Definitely pinning this recipe for later!
Hi Jenny!
At first I thought you were going to put the oreos into the bbq sliders! 🙂 That’s fun that you made the buns into basketballs-how creative! Thanks for sharing and for partying with us at #TALENTEDTuesday.
Cheers,
AJ