Enjoy Tasty Smoked Chicken Breast Recipe for Dinner

Are you planning a barbeque dinner date with your family at home? The smoked Chicken Breast Recipe is a must to include in your menu! 

Filled with delicious juicy flavours, smoked chicken is an all-time favourite dinner item. No matter the type of audience you're cooking for, everyone loves eating smoked chicken. Whether for your children, parents, or grandparents, homemade smoked chicken breast makes your dinner a complete package!

Excited already? Read on to learn how you can cook tasty smoked chicken breast at home.

What's so good about Smoked Chicken Breast Recipe 

Smoked Chicken Breast is one of the best-selling items on every restaurant's menu. Packed with sweet and salty flavours, it doesn't take much time to prepare smoked chicken at home. 

The best part is that it is pretty easy to cook. You don't need special skills to try the smoked chicken breast recipe at home. Plus, smoked chicken tastes phenomenal with homemade seasoning. You can never get enough of the mouth-watering taste.

So without wasting more time, let's get started!

List of Ingredients

Since we are preparing smoked chicken, it needs thorough heat and less amount of ingredients. Only the slightest pinch of seasoning can go a long way!

Here’s a list of ingredients that you will need to prepare a tasty smoked chicken breast at home.

Smoked Chicken

For making smoked chicken, you need a boneless breast part in standard size. It should be uniform from all sides. It shouldn't be too small, nor too big, and definitely not too shabby. Make sure to remove its skin and use a rolling pin to flatten and distribute the meat evenly. 

Seasoning

Next, you need to prepare spice seasoning to add flavour to your chicken breast. For the smoke chicken breast recipe, you'll need a mix of dry ingredients that you can easily get from your nearest grocery store. Create homemade seasoning by mixing: 

• Brown sugar
• Smoked paprika
• Garlic powder
• Onion powder
• Cajun 
• Dried oregano
• Thyme
• Sea salt
• Freshly-crushed black and white pepper

Home Cooking Oil

For cooking your chicken, you'll need some cooking oil. Try to find a neutral oil that has no smell. We prefer using sunflower or canola oil. If you can't find it, you can use lard or any other type of home cooking oil that you have available. 

Dijon Mustard

It's not necessary, but mustard helps to stick the seasoning well with the dry chicken breast. Dijon mustard acts like a “glue” that makes the chicken sticky enough to hold the maximum amount of seasoning on top. This works like a charm to give delicious flavours to your smoked chicken breast.

Basic Tools Needed For Smoked Chicken Breast Recipe

When making a tasty dinner item like smoked chicken breast, you'll need some interesting choices of cooking utensils available at home. Such as:

• Smoker or Charcoal Grill
• 3-5 dry wood planks or wood chunks for smoking (we recommend using maple, hickory, apple, or cherry for best flavours)
• Charcoal
• A large bowl containing 2 quarts of water inside
• A small bowl for mixing the seasoning
• Basting brush
• A water pan lined with foils
• Kitchen thermometer or a Temperature Probe
• Chimney starter
• Knives 
• Kitchen tongs

• Spoons and dishes

5-Step Guide: How to Cook Smoked Chicken Breast at Home 

Here's a step-by-step guide for our smoked chicken breast recipe. Follow it through to cook a tasty chicken meal with homemade seasoning.

Step#1: Preheat Your Charcoal Grill Smoker

The first step is to get things heated! Prepare your smoker to cook the chicken perfectly. Turn the heat on and let the smoker preheat for a while on medium heat at about 225°F.

If using a charcoal grill or a propane gas smoker, you'll need lots and lots of wood chips and a large water pan. However, if you're using a pellet smoker, you must pay close attention to its chambers. They must be full of wood pellets at all times.

Step#2: Prepare the Dry Seasoning Mix

Before we move toward the chicken, let's prepare our special homemade seasoning. For making smoked chicken, you need to prepare a dry mix of different spices and herbs.

Take a small bowl and add light brown sugar in it as a base to add some sweet undertones. Now, add smoked paprika and Cajun, that majorly intensifies the flavours. To balance it accordingly, add onion powder, dried oregano, thyme, and some garlic powder. 

Lastly, add the remaining ingredients, i.e., seal salt, black pepper, and white peppers (freshly-crushed), to add a unique layer of flavour. 

Mix all the dry ingredients in a bowl and stir it thoroughly before setting it aside.

Step#3: Prep the Chicken Breast 

While your smoker is on medium heat, use this time to dry your chicken breast. You can use paper towels or butter papers to pat each piece of the chicken breast dry. This helps to remove any excess moisture that may disturb your cooking later.

After thoroughly drying your chicken, it's time to rub the seasoning. Use a brush or spoon to coat your chicken breast lightly with oil. Add a pinch of natural salt over it and spread it around for quick absorption. 

Now, it's time to make the chicken swampy with dijon mustard. Coat the breast with mustard and dip it in the bowl of seasoning. Move it around and cover each side generously with the dry seasoning putting slight pressure from all sides.

Step#4: Cooking Time 

Once seasoned to perfection, it's time to cook your chicken breast. Check if the smoker is nice and ready. Place your chicken breasts onto the charcoal grill. You'll see it simmering. 

Let it sit there being cooked to perfection before you move on to the next one. You don't necessarily need to flip it over and over again since you're smoking meat.

Step#5: Let it be Smoked! 

If you think the chicken is ready, check the internal temperature using the kitchen thermometer. Make sure to close the lid, or the smoke will get away. 

Once the internal temperature becomes 165°F, draw your chicken breasts out of the smoker and let them sit for 3-5 minutes.

Slice the chicken breast using a sharp knife into small strips and serve it hot to your guests.

Pair up the Smoked Chicken with Sides!

Adding more texture and taste to your smoked chicken breast recipe, you can pair it with tasty sides. Chop it into chunks and add them to a bowl of salads or try it hot with mashed potatoes.

Let us know how you like enjoying your smoked chicken breast recipe after all the hard work! 

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