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Smoked Garlic Chicken

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Smoked Garlic Chicken — a recipe imported from the Wikibooks Cookbook.

Ingredients

  • 4 whole chicken leg quarters, skin removed
  • ¼ cup paprika
  • 2 tbsp chili powder
  • 1 ½ tbsp cayenne pepper
  • 2 tbsp lemon pepper
  • 2 tbsp garlic powder
  • 1 tbsp salt
  • 1 tbsp black peppercorns, cracked
  • Forearm-sized mesquite wood chunks
  • Yellow mustard

Instructions

  1. 1
    Combine seasonings. Set aside.
  2. 2
    Brush chicken with mustard. This will help make a crust. Press seasoning mixture into both sides of meat. Refrigerate 30 minutes.
  3. 3
    Preheat smoker to 225°F with mesquite. Add chicken pieces and insert a probe thermometer into one of them. Cook, adding wood as needed, until internal temperature reaches 170°F.
  4. 4
    Move to a very very high grill and cook until charred and marked. Flip and repeat.
  5. 5
    Serve immediately with desired side dishes.
Category
Entree/Main

Recipe Attribution

Wikibooks Cookbook
en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook:Smoked_Garlic_Chicken