Smoked Chicken Breast Rotini with a Mushroom Sauce

[xray]

Wow fowl! That chicken looks great, nice grill marks too!!

But besides it being pretty, I'm sure it ate pretty good. Congrats on the carousel ride.

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[fowldarr]

Thanks, it was really good. Next time, I would make more sauce...

 

[xray]

Thanks, it was really good. Next time, I would make more sauce...

Definitely, I always go overboard when making a sauce. If there's more left after drenching my dinner, you have a quick and easy pasta dish the next day for lunch or dinner.

 

[katemail13]

@fowldarr - Thanks for this thread! I am really interested in smoking some chicken breasts. Are you willing to share your exact brine recipe (measurements, etc), and what type of wood you used (or did I miss that above)? This looks fantastic!

 

[fowldarr]

Oak wood, and I can pull out the brine recipe when I get home. I wrote it down in my BBQ journal.

 

[gary s]

Nice Yard Bird, Looks Fantastic I would eat that in a heart beat

Great Job

Gary

 

[katemail13]

Did you have any luck finding that chicken brine recipe, @fowldarr ? I'd love to smoke some boneless chicken parts this week. Thanks, again, for posting this thread!

- Katie

 

[fowldarr]

Did you have any luck finding that chicken brine recipe, @fowldarr ? I'd love to smoke some boneless chicken parts this week. Thanks, again, for posting this thread!

- Katie

I totally forgot that I promised to get back to you.

3cups apple juice
2 cups water
2/3 cup kosher salt
rosemary sprigs (because I have it growing out my ears)
1/4 brown sugar
4 garlic cloves minced
1 bay leaf
1tsp of whole pepper corns

That's my basic recipe. I think in this case I went light on the garlic, left out the bay leaf and just used coarse black pepper.

Bring all of that to a boil, cook and stir to dissolve the salt and sugar, pull it off the heat add 4 cups of ice and bring it down to room temp before putting your chicken in for a bath. Let it brine for at least two hours or more.

I hope that helps.

 

[katemail13]

That's great! Thanks very much for that, @fowldarr !

Katie