🍗 3-Ingredient Church Supper Chicken
Ingredients
- 3–3½ lb (1.4–1.6 kg) bone-in, skin-on chicken pieces
- 16 oz (about 475 ml) thick tomato-based barbecue sauce
- 12 oz (355 ml) lemon-lime soda, such as 7UP or Sprite — not diet (Cooktop Cove)
👩🍳 Method
- Heat the oven to 350°F (175°C).
- Arrange the chicken in a single layer in a 9×13-inch baking dish.
- Mix the barbecue sauce and lemon-lime soda until smooth.
- Pour the mixture over the chicken, making sure it’s well coated.
- Cover tightly with foil and bake for 45 minutes.
- Remove the foil, baste the chicken with the sauce, and bake uncovered for another 30–40 minutes, until the sauce is thick and glossy.
- Check that the thickest piece reaches 165°F (74°C) internally.
- Let it rest for 5–10 minutes before serving. (Cooktop Cove)
The soda helps create a sweet, glossy glaze as the sauce reduces. It’s especially good with mashed potatoes, rice, green beans, corn, or dinner rolls. (Cooktop Cove)
One caution: the recipe page calls this a traditional “church supper” recipe, but that historical claim isn’t independently established by the source; I’d treat that part as storytelling rather than documented culinary history.
