Stove-Top Smoked Whole Chicken

Smoked Whole Chicken

This is my second try at smoking chicken in the stove-top smoker.  The last time was good: Smoked Chicken with Mac & Cheese but this was definitely Better!

Smoked Whole Chicken

Spatchcock‘d the chicken (which means cutting out the backbone & ribs and flattening out the chicken). Turned out ok!  I thought this would be easier for smoking but I ended up cutting it entirely in half so that it would fit in the container I had for brining the chicken.  Brined the chicken: approximately 3Tbsp kosher salt for every quart of water.  Nothing complicated, although I think I will try to make a more flavorful brining mixture next time.  Found some amazingly complicated but delicious sounding recipes.

Bleu Cheese Slaw

While the chicken brined, made the Blue Cheese Cole Slaw – Pre-packaged cole slaw mix, low fat Blue Cheese Salad dressing, crumbled gorgonzola – combined and put in the fridge to “marinade”.

 

 

Smoked Whole Chicken

Brined the chicken for 3 hours, rinsed off the chicken and patted dry.  Rubbed in LOTS of minced garlic and equally Lots of freshly ground black pepper.  Set up pan with 2 Tbsp hickory smoking chips.  Put pan over medium-high heat, once smoked started to appear, closed cover tightly and smoked for 60 minutes (internal temperature of 170-degrees with thermometer inserted in the thickest part of the thigh).

Smoked Whole Chicken

 

Perfect.  The skin could probably be slightly crisper but it was still tasty.

 

 

 

Smoked Whole Chicken

Plated: slices of both white and dark meat.  Both were equally moist and tender, which says a lot for the white meat.  Leaving the skin on definitely helps keep the moisture in during the process.  The cole slaw was a good side, lots of flavor to match the smokey flavor of the chicken.

Pirouettes with Amaretto Whipped cream

This was technically a “Sunday Roast”.  My kids were visiting their Dad for the weekend so it was just my Heart and I for dinner but what is Sunday Roast without dessert. Packaged pirouettes with Amaretto Whipped Cream – simple but absolutely delicious.

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