A variety of smoked foods, including chicken, is a gourmet favorite for most gourmets. She has a unique, long-term memorable taste and aroma, thanks to this she is often present on the tables of our fellow citizens. In fact, it is quite simple to cook smoked chicken at home, the main thing is to have a special device - a home smokehouse. And then you can please your guests with a new, incredibly tasty dish, cooked with your own hands.
It is necessary
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- Hen,
- Bay leaf,
- 0.5 tablespoon salt
- 2 cloves of garlic
- 1 tsp granulated sugar
- black peppercorns
- cinnamon
- ginger
- 5 juniper berries,
- 3 tbsp. l. 3% vinegar
- home smokehouse,
- alder branches.
Instructions
Step 1
Take a young fleshy chicken, rinse thoroughly under running water and cut in half along the sternum. Try hitting the chicken well with a kitchen hammer. This is necessary so that the joints and bones become a little softer and cerebral fluid comes out of them.
Step 2
Pour water into a saucepan and put on fire, we will need it to prepare the brine.
Step 3
Add a couple of bay leaves, 0.5 tablespoon of salt, two finely chopped cloves of garlic, 1 teaspoon of granulated sugar, black peppercorns, cinnamon, ginger, 5 juniper berries, 3 tablespoons of 3% vinegar to boiled, cooled water.
Step 4
Place the chicken in a deep, suitable dish and pour over the whole cooked brine. Leave the chicken to soak in the seasoning for two days.
Step 5
After this time, the chicken needs to be taken out, small cuts are made over the entire surface of the carcass and stuffed with small pieces of garlic and bacon. Hang the chicken to dry a little. After that, you can start the smoking procedure.
Step 6
For smoking chicken, you need to use alder branches and firewood. To begin with, you need to very much heat the smokehouse, so that a shiny film forms on the surface of the chicken. It will be on it that it will be possible to determine the degree of readiness of the chicken. When the film begins to lag easily, this will indicate that the meat is ready.
