Bacon wrapped brined stuffed chicken breasts

[NoobNoob]

i was at Menards today aimlessly walking around looking at lots of different home improvement project stuff I should be buying and working on. Instead I just kept thinking about Sunday dinner. It finally hit me that I have some brine made up in the fridge - leftovers from the last chicken I did. So I decided to do chicken breast. Then I thought, I should stuff them. So I hit up the local grocery store, got some really good looking breasts, they had cloverdale thick cut bacon on sale which I really enjoy. I just made bacon and should have used my own but I wasn’t confident how this would turn out so I just bought the store stuff. I brined the breasts for about 6hrs. My base brine recipe is a gallon of water, 1C brown sug, 1/2C pickling salt, 1/2C of ACV. Like I said I had left overs that I kept in pint jars so I just used a pint for 3 good sized breasts and put in a gallon bag. Decided to go hickory on the smoker, 250F for a couple hours til we hit 165. I stuffed the breasts with stuffing. After we ate I just kept thinking that this needs to be the new staple for thanksgiving. It was tasty. Pictures included. I decided to tie everything up just to keep form and from the bacon detaching. Worked great.

 

[dannylang]

Great looking chicken breast.
dannylang

 

[SmokinAl]

Looks delicious!!
Al

 

[SmokinVOLfan]

Those looks great! You gotta get a sliced open shot down the middle next time though that looks too good not to!

 

[Steve H]

Looks great! Question though. Was this extra brine that wasn't used. Or are you reusing brine?

 

[NoobNoob]

extra, unused, never touched anything but a glass jar brine. Reusing brine sounds like a recipe for disaster.

 

[Steve H]

extra, unused, never touched anything but a glass jar brine. Reusing brine sounds like a recipe for disaster.

Yup, It could be. The chicken looks very good.

 

[SouthernSmoked]

Just showed your pic to my wife.
She had two words for me, "Make It".
I had two letters for her, OK.
Thanks for the pic.

 

[Hawging It]

Very nice!

 

[Miss Piggy]

Oh my! These look good! So going to do this.