Category: Chicken

One of the easiest and popular dinners in our family, and its delicious.

You can usually get quarters in the grocery store. It is more common to find the legs and thighs but sometimes you can find the breasts and wings as well.

You can cook chicken several ways on the Traeger. You can bake it at high heat or you can do a complete smoke, or you can do what I like to do is a mixture of both.

Smoke flavor on chicken is awesome, so the rule of thumb is to smoke it for as long as possible. You will get some smoke flavor with the high heat method but run the risk of drying out the meat especially the breasts.

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Smoked Chicken wings happen to my family’s favorite. They can be eaten right off of the smoker, or cooled and fried afterward for the iconic bar food.

Naked, Dry, Sauced, spicy, or mild it is all up to you.

There are two ways that I make wings, one version I finish them off or bring them to temp in the smoker, the second is to smoke them in the smoker first and then fully cook them in the fryer

Ingredients

• • Wing Sections
  • BBQ marinade
  • Your favorite wing sauce

Directions

• • Start smoker and set it to smoke
  • Place wings on grates and smoke for 1.2 to 2 hours
  • At this point you can pull the wings off of the smoker and fry them in a deep fryer -or-  you can turn the smoker to 375 and cook them until they reach an internal temp of 180.
  • Remove and enjoy

Sauce Options

• • Buffalo
    • Franks Redhot
      • Hot – Add hot wing and sauce in a metal or glass bowl and mix and serve
      • Mild – and equal parts of butter and franks red hot
    • Honey BBQ
      • Add a tablespoon of honey to your favorite BBQ sauce and mix with the wings
    • Sweet Siracha
      • Add Siracha, a diced clove of garlic, chives, and honey.
    • Sweet and Spicy Jalapeno
      • Add a jalapeno Pepper Jelly to the hot wings.

Accompany with:

• • Coleslaw
  • Carrot Sticks and Celery
  • Blue Cheese or Ranch Dressing.

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