Smoked Moroccan Chicken
Recipe: #10872
October 29, 2013
Categories: Chicken, One-Pot Meal, Christmas, Sunday Dinner, Thanksgiving, Smoker Gluten-Free, High Protein, Low Carbohydrate, No Eggs, Non-Dairy, Whole Chicken, Chicken Dinner, more
"I had some Moroccan spice mix leftover from Derf's http://www.recipezazz.com/recipe/moroccan-grilled-salmon-9641 so I used it to rub into a whole chicken I smoked. This turned out so tasty. I love the combination of the smoke and Moroccan spice."
Ingredients
Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (584.1 g)
- Calories 579.2
- Total Fat - 12.4 g
- Saturated Fat - 3.1 g
- Cholesterol - 1360.8 mg
- Sodium - 1268 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 10.7 g
- Dietary Fiber - 2.2 g
- Sugars - 6.8 g
- Protein - 101.2 g
- Calcium - 88.1 mg
- Iron - 15.5 mg
- Vitamin C - 21.3 mg
- Thiamin - 0.2 mg
Step by Step Method
Step 1
In a small bowl, mix together all the ingredients except for the chicken; set aside.
Step 2
Rinse the chicken and pat dry.
Step 3
Loosen the skin and rub some of the mixture under the skin and rub the remaining spice mixture outside the chicken.
Step 4
Place the chicken into the prepared smoker and smoke at 250 for approximately 4 hours or until meat thermometer reads 180 degrees in the thickest part of the breast.
Step 5
Your chicken will be nicely browned outside. The meat does stay pink around the bones but the juices will run clear inside the chicken.
Tips
- Smoker
- Wood chips