Learn how to smoke a chicken, plus up to two weeks worth of recipes using leftover smoked chicken. Each of these smoked chicken recipes are expertly flavored to take a regular chicken from boring to wow!
Or if you are cooking hot and fast check out our roundup for our favorite grilled chicken recipes.
Smoking chicken, rather than baking or roasting it, adds an additional layer of flavor that turns any weeknight meal up a notch. We’ve got traditional low and slow BBQ chicken as well as a whole chicken recipe perfect for meal prepping. A Smoked Whole Chicken is one of the most common things we cook on our smokers. We typically smoke one or two on any given Sunday, then use the meat throughout the week for our meals, like buffalo chicken dip or smoked chicken tortilla soup. Read on for more recipes!
Modify any of our whole chicken recipes with the spatchcock, or butterflying technique. This technique speeds up the cooking process and is one of our favorite ways to roast whole chickens.
Chicken Temperature
While the USDA recommends cooking all chicken to 165 the real answer is a little more nuanced if you want perfectly cooked chicken.
If you are wondering what temperature to cook chicken too look no further than our entire article on chicken temperature.
Smoked Whole Chicken
A whole smoked chicken is incredibly versatile. Smoke one or two on the weekend and you’re set with tasty home-cooked meat for the week!
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Smoked Whole Chicken Recipe
Step by step guide for smoked whole chicken- including times, temps, dry rub recipes and pro tips.
Chicken is an inexpensive and delicious meat to practice your barbecuing techniques on.
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Dry Brine Smoked Chicken with a Carolina Glaze
How to dry brine a chicken for amazing flavor. The chicken starts with a dry brine, and is then smoked slow and finished with a Carolina style BBQ sauce as a glaze.
How make Pulled BBQ Chicken Sliders using smoked chicken. Perfect and easy way to feed a crowd with a Hawaiian style bun, grilled pineapple coleslaw and pulled chicken.
The best method for smoked chicken wings with crispy skin. This success of this recipe is ALL in the technique. Well, that, and the sauce. But seriously pay attention to the technique!
So you smoked your chicken and now you’re wondering what to put it in? We’ve got you covered.
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Smoked Salsa Verde Chicken Soup Recipe
Recipe for Smoked Chicken Salsa Verde Soup. A quick, easy, soul-soothing, cold-calming, smoky delicious soup for when you’re not feeling well. And three variations for this easy soup during cold season.
Slowly smoked chicken adds great flavor to a classic chicken tortilla soup. This soup starts with quality ingredients, like homemade chicken stock, chipotle and other flavorful ingredients.
How to add smoked flavor to a traditional Coq au Vin. Smoke the chicken on your smoker, then build your stew with the pre-smoked chicken pieces. Adds incredible flavor to this classic French dish. Recipe adapted by Ina Garten.
Recipe for Grilled Jalapeño Poppers stuffed with a Buffalo Chicken style filling. The perfect marriage of wings meets traditional poppers, grilled to perfection.
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I'm Mary, a wine/food/travel writer, Certified Sommelier, mom of twins, former vegetarian turned BBQ fanatic, runner, founder of Vindulge, and author of Fire + Wine cookbook. Thanks for stopping by!
