Smoked Lemon-Chipotle Chickens

Name: Smoked Lemon-Chipotle Chickens
Prep time: 4 h 45 min
Cook time: 4 h 45 min
Total time: 4 h 45 min
Yield: 12
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 2 Tbsps adobo sauce from can; 3 chicken bouillon cubes; 6 kilograms whole chickens; 3 canned chipotle peppers in adobo sauce; 8 larges garlic cloves, peeled; 177 milliliters fresh lemon juice; 59 milliliters olive oil; 591 milliliters hickory or oak wood chips; 2 teaspoons salt, divided; 12 servings Kitchen string; 1 small sweet onion, quartered; 3 Tbsps white vinegar

Smoked Lemon-Chipotle Chickens might be just the main course you are searching for. This recipe covers 38% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. One portion of this dish contains around 98g of protein, 88g of fat, and a total of 1276 calories. This recipe serves 12. If you have onion, vinegar, kitchen string, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. To use up the lemon juice you could follow this main course with the Lemon Shortbread Cookies with Lemon Icing It is a good option if you're following a gluten free and dairy free diet. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes about 4 hours and 45 minutes.

Instructions

Process sweet onion, next 7 ingredients, and 3/4 tsp. salt in a food processor or blender until smooth, stopping to scrape down sides. Set mixture aside.

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Sweet Onion

Salt

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Remove excess skin from necks and cavities of chickens, if desired. Starting at large cavities, loosen skin from breasts and legs by inserting fingers and gently pushing between skin and meat. (Do not completely detach skin.)

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Meat

Place chickens in a large roasting pan. Using a bulb baster, squeeze lemon-chipotle mixture evenly into chicken cavities and under skin on breasts and legs.

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Whole Chicken

Chipotle Chiles

Lemon

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Roasting Pan

Baster

Sprinkle chickens evenly with remaining 1 1/4 tsp. salt. Tuck wings under, if desired. Position the center of a 3-foot piece of kitchen string under back of one chicken near tail. Wrap string around legs and around body of chicken. Tie securely at neck. Repeat with remaining chickens.

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Whole Chicken

Chicken Wings

Salt

Wrap

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Kitchen Twine

Soak wood chips in water for at least 30 minutes. Set aside.

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French Fries

Water

Prepare smoker according to manufacturer's directions. Bring internal temperature to 225 to 250, and maintain temperature for 15 to 20 minutes.

Place chickens on upper cooking grate; cover with smoker lid.

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Chicken

Cook chickens, maintaining the temperature inside the smoker between 225 and 250, for 1 hour and 30 minutes.

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Chicken

Drain reserved wood chips, and place on coals. Cover with smoker lid; smoke chickens 2 hours to 2 hours and 30 minutes more or until a meat thermometer inserted into thighs registers 17

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Meat

French Fries

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