It's time to tell you how to smoke chicken at home, hot smoked, which turns out to be simply amazing.
The only downside is that homemade hot-smoked chicken (recipe below) takes a lot longer than a regular kebab, but it's worth it.
Any chicken parts - wings, drumsticks, thighs, or breast - will do for this delicious dish. If you have a large smokehouse, you can smoke the whole chicken as well. Our family loves any part of the chicken, but since I have a small smokehouse, it does not fit entirely there, and even smaller parts are smoked faster.
When I said that homemade hot-smoked chicken will take a little more time, it means several days. Yes, yes, a few days! In order for our chicken to be juicy and tasty, smoked and cooked to the very bones, it must be marinated for several days.
I bought chilled chicken thighs in advance, washed them with clean water, removed excess fat and pulled out the rest of the feathers. We put them in a deep bowl and make the marinade.
Peel the garlic, rinse with water and cut into slices. Place the garlic in a bowl of chicken. Further, everything is according to your taste. We mix the salt and your favorite chicken-friendly spices and add them to the bowl with the chicken thighs. Thoroughly mix the chicken with seasonings and garlic. Fill with water so that it only covers the product.
By the way, you can put a plate on top, on which to put heavy oppression. Then the chicken is better saturated with the marinade.
Cooking hot smoked chicken thighs is a long process and most of the time we will spend on the marinating process.
Cover and refrigerate for three days. During this time, the meat is properly saturated with salt and spices, this will make it more tasty, juicy and speed up the hot smoking of chicken thighs.
So, the time is up and the day has come when we will smoke hot smoked chicken thighs. It is necessary to remove the chicken from the marinade in advance and place it on the wire rack so that the excess liquid is glass, otherwise it will pour sawdust. I think 35-45 minutes will be enough.
During this time, we will prepare sawdust. I use alder, but it's a matter of taste. Pour the required amount of sawdust into a bowl and fill them with warm water for 20 minutes. Next, we prepare the smokehouse, light a fire under it and pour wet sawdust into it. We wait until the sawdust starts to smoke a little and put a tray on them to collect the fat that will drain from the thighs during the smoking process. If this is not done, the fat will burn and the finished product will taste like burning.
Put the grill in the smoker and put the chicken on it. We close the lid of the smokehouse, now we will constantly keep the fire under it. The fire should not be very strong, otherwise the sawdust will quickly dry out and burn, and we need them to smolder slowly. The process will take from one hour to two.
While you smoke chicken at home, hot smoked chicken, you can start preparing a delicious side dish, for example. To be honest, the chicken took longer to cook than I thought. The potatoes cooked faster and we ate them very quickly with.
That's all. Hot smoked chicken thighs (homemade recipe) are completely ready. As a matter of fact, that's all the wisdom on how to cook hot smoked chicken in a smokehouse. Agree, not so difficult, just long.
Serve with vegetables and any side dish if you didn't eat it like we did while the chicken was being smoked. Bon Appetit!
Ingredients
- 8 pcs - chicken thigh;
- 1 tsp - salt;
- 2-3 tsp - spices to taste;
- Water;
- Sawdust - deciduous trees birch, alder, cherry, apple;
- Smokehouse.
