Description
This smoked chicken breast recipe is for you. If you don’t have time or a busy lifestyle. This smoked chicken recipe is delicious with minimum effort. You can create it flavorful with a variety of dishes and salads.
Let’s jump to the recipe.
Ingredients
Scale
- 4 chicken breasts
- 2 cups of hot water
- 2 tablespoons of kosher salt
- 1 tablespoon of brown sugar
- Olive oil
- Chicken seasoning
Instructions
- Prepare the Brine: For brine take four cups of hot water. Add kosher salt, and brown sugar, and whisk until salt and sugar completely dissolve in hot water and let it cool. Now our brine is ready.
- Brine the Chicken Breasts: Now add chicken breast to the prepared brine for 2-4 hours in the refrigerator. Brine helps the chicken enhance its flavor and texture and makes the chicken breast juicier.
- Remove and Dry: Now after four hours, our chicken is brined, now prepare the baking sheet with a paper towel to dry out excess brine from our chicken breasts before we season. Pat off the top of our chicken breast to remove extra brine.
- Seasoning: Once dry, now drizzle both sides of the chicken breast with olive oil before seasoning. The olive oil is going to help keep the exterior of our chicken breast. Now season both sides of the chicken breasts with chicken seasoning and any type of chicken seasoning you want. You can also use classic salt and pepper.
- Preheat Your Smoker: Preheat your smoker to 225°F (107°C).
- Smoke the Chicken: Now our oiled, seasoned, and brined chicken breasts are going on the smoker at 225 degrees. They will take about an hour to cook or until the internal temperature of the chicken is about 163-165 degrees Fahrenheit.
- Rest and Serve: Now rest your smoked chicken breast for 2-3 minutes and cut them into slices according to your desired thickness. Now our delectable, juicy, and tender smoked chicken breasts are ready to serve.
Notes
- Use high-quality chicken boneless breasts.
- The wood you chose here really is going to impact the end flavor of your smoked chicken breast. The wood I recommend is something mild like Apple, Cherry, Alder, or Pecan if you want a mellow smoked flavor.
- If you take large size chicken breasts, then it will take more time to cook.
- For proper cooking check the internal temperature of chicken breasts. The internal temperature must be 163-165 degrees Fahrenheit.
- For brine don’t use normal salt, use kosher or sea salt.
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 1 hour
- Category: Main Course
- Cuisine: American