Smoked Bucket Chicken (Native American Style Chicken)
- Ready In:
- 3hrs 35mins
- Ingredients:
- 4
- Serves:
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6
ingredients
- 3 whole chickens
- butter (spray butter)
- 2 cups hickory chips (2 cups/2 handfuls)
- 4 tablespoons garlic seasoned pepper, season to liking or 4 tablespoons seasoning, of choice season to liking
directions
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Well, you're going to need as well:
- A 5 gallon metal bucket (paint burned off).
- 3 wooden stakes.
- Tin foil (15x15).
- 8 lb. bag of matchlight charcoal.
- Cotton string (about 3-4 ft.).
- Make or acquire 3 sturdy wooden stakes. Drive them into ground after laying down foil.
- Place the stakes close enough together so that you can fit the three chickens on them and still fit bucket over them].
- Place seasoned chickens, breasts outwards, on stakes, and tie string around them tightly so that when cooking, nothing falls off.
- Once chickens are placed and tied, spray a lot of butter all around the chickens and season them some more.
- You're almost there!
- Place hickory chips around and underneath the chickens.
- Put bucket over chickens and pour all the charcoal around the bucket.
- Light it up!
- The chickens should cook for at least 3-3 1/2 hours.
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Reviews
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What a great sounding camping or picnic recipe! Yum! I think I'll go track down an large oblong, metal "party bucket" that is used to put ice and beer in. (Or small washtub??) You're basically making a rough dutch oven. (If you want to do the dutch oven, put some hickory chips in a piece of heavy duty foil, and poke a hole in it. You can do it on a charcoal grill that way too- but it won't be as fun!) I cook for Civil War reenactors. Sounds like a good recipe for them!
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