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Smoked Spatchcock Chicken

Smoked Spatchcock Chicken

Course Main Course
Cuisine American

Equipment

  • Grill / Smoker

Ingredients
  

  • 1 ea Whole Chicken

BBQ Rubs

  • Recteq - Competition Blend BBQ Rub
  • Recteq - Rossarooski's Honey Rib Rub
  • Recteq - Mild Gourmet BBQ Sauce

Spritz

  • Mott’s White Apple Juice

Instructions
 

  • Spatchcock “Butterfly’ the whole chicken
  • Place the Spatchcock “Butterfly’ chicken in a pan on a wire rack inside a pan
  • Apply a liberal coat of Recteq - Competition Blend BBQ Rub & Recteq Honey Rib Rub to the back side of the Chicken
  • Flip the chicken over and apply a liberal coat of Recteq - Competition Blend BBQ Rub & Rossarooski's Honey Rib Rub to the Top side of the Chicken
  • Pre-heat your Recteq pellet smoker to 300°
  • Place the Spatchcock Chicken in the Pellet Smoker and cook until you reach an internal temperature of +165° in the Breast meat and +178° in the thigh meat
  • Spritz ever ~15-minutes to maintain a moist skin
  • In roughly 2-hrs, you should be able to remove the Spatchcock Chicken from the Pellet Smoker
  • Apply a liberal amount of the Mild Gourmet BBQ Sauce and return to the Pellet Smoker to set the sauce
  • Remove once the sauce is set and let is rest
  • Slice and Enjoy
  • Let us know how they turned out and Tag #EliteBBQSmokers in your social media post.

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