Renaissance Festival Turkey Legs

Submitted by Virginia Cherry Blo

"The title says it all. You can use any chicken seasoning, like McCormick Montreal Chicken Spice Grill Mates. I use a chicken barbecue spice rub that is local here. You can also replace the barbecue sauce with a grilling sauce like McCormick Mesquite Grilling Sauce Grill Mates. I just happen to prefer to use what I already have around. One more thing, it is probably best to finish the legs off in a smoker, but of course must of us only have a grill. You can always add wood chips to the grill and get the same effect. Either will do fine!"

 

• Ready In: 6hrs 55mins
• Ingredients: 5
• Serves: 4

ingredients

• 4 turkey legs (small to medium size)
• 4 tablespoons barbecue seasoning (chicken blend)
• 1⁄2 cup distilled white vinegar
• 3 cups water
• 2 tablespoons barbecue sauce

directions

1. Pat turkey legs dry with a paper towel. You can also remove the skin to cut back on the cholesterol and fat.
2. Mix 3 tbsp barbecue chicken spice blend, 1/2 cup vinegar, and 3 cups water in a pan or bag and marinate legs for 6 hours, turning once.
3. Drain off 1/2 liquid, and salt lightly with more barbecue chicken spice blend (about 1 tablespoons.).
4. Cover pan with aluminum foil and bake for 40 minutes at 350°F Turn legs over at 20 minutes.
5. Heat grill and and transfer turkey legs when bake time is done.
6. Brush on the barbecue sauce during the last 7 minutes of the grilling process; turn over legs and brush on the other side.
7. Cook until a desirable brown.

Reviews

[The Rock and Roll B]

It is interesting to note that the turkey legs served at Festivals are in no way authentic. Turkey is a new world food and nobody back then was eating turkey legs. They still are delicious though.

 

[Sarah in New York]

Really, really good. I made this with chicken legs and wings. Reduced cooking time to 30 minutes in oven and then grilled inside oven on a rack with sauce for about 10 more minutes. The meat just fell off the bones. I used our favorite barbeque seasoning "butt rub". It sounds weird, I know... but it is soooo good. For the sauce, I used a honey barbeque sauce. Yum! Made for ZWT6

 

[evewitch]

I didn't want to heat the kitchen up, so I cooked this entirely on the grill. I did the oven portion in a pan on the grill. It took about an hour for step 4, since I spent a lot of time messing with the burners to get a proper temperature. The legs turned out well, but were not as flavorful as I would have liked. However, I never marinated them due to lack of time. I just made up half of the ingredients (because the directions say to pour half out before cooking) and cooked without marinating. Next time I will try to get the marinade going the day before and see if that enhances the flavor.

 

[Dr. Jenny]

We liked these turkey legs. They were certainly easy to make and I liked that the prep was minimal. I used Montreal chicken seasoning and Dinosaur BBQ sauce. We smoked the turkey legs on the grill as suggested by adding a hickory chunk to the coals; DH suggested that if we made it again, he might use apple instead to smoke the meat. We served with roasted cauliflower and grilled chive potatoes. Thanks!

 

[WiGal]

Nice turkey legs recipe. I prefer my turkey skin to be crisp. We did not grill it later-just too tired-but that probably would do the trick. Served with roasted potatoes and carrots and for dessert had recipe#428200. Thank you Virginia for sharing. Made for ZWT6 Zingo for Unrulies Under the Influence.