Smoked BBQ Chicken Leg Quarters | Ash Kickin' BBQ

In today's video I will be showing you one of my favorite things to cook up as a quick weeknight meal on the smoker, smoked bbq chicken leg quarters! These are a great option if you have to feed a crowd on a budget! These chicken leg quarters came in a pack weighing almost 5lbs, and also cost about $5. Smoked BBQ chicken leg quarters are very unique in the fact you can pretty much use them in any recipe that you like from chicken salads to pulled BBQ chicken sandwiches! How do you like to use your smoked bbq chicken leg quarters? Let me know in the comments below!
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Full Recipe:
| Ingredients |
-Chicken leg quarters
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| Instructions |
Prep:
1. Remove the chicken leg quarters from the packaging, and trim per the instructions in the video
2. Pull back the skin on the chicken leg quarters and season the meat lightly with Honey Chipotle
3. Pull the skin back over the chicken leg quarters, and season the bottom of the quarters with a base layer of Party Rub, a light layer of Honey Chipotle, and a medium coating of Meat Candy.
4. Once the bottoms of the leg quarters are seasoned, put them on a wire rack, and repeat the seasoning process on the top (presentation) side. Allow the rub to sweat in while the smoker comes up to temperature.
| Cooking |
1. Set your smoker temperature for 300° F.
2. Put the chicken leg quarters on the smoker, and allow them to smoke for 45 minutes.
3. After 45 minutes, check the temperature of the smoked chicken leg quarters. I prefer to take dark meat chicken to 185-200º F internal. The reason for this is, dark meat has more fast that can be rendered, and you end up with a tender, juicy, and delicious final product, but take them to whatever temp you choose.
4. Once the smoked leg quarters are about to the temp you'd like, sauce them up per the video. The goal here is to have that saucy, messy, and delicious BBQ chicken that we all love.
5. After you sauce the chicken, allow the sauce to set for 3-4 minutes, you ideally want the sauce to still be wet on the smoked chicken.
6. After the sauce has set for a couple minutes, remove the smoked BBQ chicken leg quarters from the smoker and allow them to cool for 10 minutes.
7. After your BBQ chicken has cooled, eat and enjoy! This my friends is the taste of summer!
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[@MadPick]

I would LOVE to see a kettle series!

[@michaelsullivan2669]

Would love to see a kettle cook!

[@Lonewolf_1776]

Kettle series please

[@danielshuga4913]

Awesome video. Wife and I are just starting our journey with the pellet grill. Making your chicken right now.

[@jeffreyallen2778]

Quarters are one of my favorites for the grill or smoker. Very forgiving. Those look incredible.

[@chrisbarber1020]

Awesome video I'd love to see a kettle series I started on a pellet grill which I still use but I love cooking with fire

[@slideoff1]

BBQ chicken is one of my all time favorite's! Brings back memories and flavor of 1972 Saturday back~yard neighbor hood cookout fun!

[@beka4780]

Kettle series - fantastic👍👍👍 Greetings Bernd

[@yalefogarty2498]

A Drum series would be fantastic, so little content using drum smokers! These look fantastic … 🍻

[@robertbernal3180]

Wow the chicken looks so delicious. Liked the ingredients that you used makes it look fantastic. Great recipe like always. Have a great weekend and good luck in your competition.

[@mattvan2289]

Kettle series! Not many people own a $5K pellet smoke box.

[@dougellis2027]

Thank you so much for doing these. We love leg quarters!! Be sure to let me know when you roll out that apparel line we talked about a while back. T-shirts with the old and new logo would be awesome 👌!!!

[@shaunmcelrea6519]

I would love to see a kettle series. I would love to see a video of how you brine your chicken. As a matter of fact, I would love to see any video for how you do anything. My wife and I have taken some very good tips off of your techniques and methods and it has definitely elevated our BBQ. So, thank you for all of your great videos!!!

[@Hank_Scorpio13]

Recipe looks great! Unrelated to a lot of other comments, I would love to see a pulled chicken recipe!

[@seanboyd6076]

Id like to see kettle series.

[@davemaestas5014]

Yes kettle series! Look forward to it!

[@BLACKFLASH186]

Yes brine please

[@Mark.A.Waller]

Great cook! I need to start doing combo rubs, always been against it but you have convinced me to try! Thanks for a great vid.

[@kirbyparker4942]

Awesome results!

[@russellpennington2636]

Yes on kettle series! Love your videos

[@Mexigun]

Looks great!

[@christhomas3925]

Looks delicious!

[@ChilesandSmoke]

Dang man that's awesome color!

[@weekendwarriorfishing6836]

Awesome

[@wegottafishdude]

🤘🏻😎🤘🏻 Awesome stuff, dude

[@markowen7129]

Maaaan, I can't believe you had that much self-control holding back getting that first bite sooner!!! That looks amazing. I love doing chicken quarters, which is very inexpensive. You're talking about doing drum cooks right when my wife ok'd me to get the LSG 20x42 Pellet. I was getting intrigued about barrels until I got the go ahead. Now I've been trying to make a decision for the last 2 weeks. Lol. Nice video as always, sir!!

[@stevefulcher8031]

I would love a Santa Maria cook. Don't know if you have one or not....but that would be awesome

[@craigmose5898]

Looks grate... what flavor smoke did you use?

[@casper1995able]

Man it's torture watching you eat your finished result haha but man does it look good and I bet it tastes even better. Great job!

[@benwegner9373]

Would throwing the tray on a foil lined baking sheet to help keep the smoker clean affect the flavor of the chicken, opposed to the foil on the lower grate?

[@jessbpowers]

Could’ve used this video 2 days ago Made leg quarters and didn’t quite come out how I wanted

[@davew6969]

what kind of wood do you typically use for smoking chicken?

[@cotto22]

Looks delicious and great presentation. We're you using cherry wood for this cook

[@daveprice424]

In adding 3 different rubs, how do you keep it from being so salty?

[@AshKickinBBQ]

Controlled light layers. Plus, my rub and meat candy is easy on the sodium.

[@AMMOBBQ]

I love my pellet grill but there is just somthing extra cooking over live fire. Please do some kettle cooks.

[@lowdownone]

Kettle series and chicken brine

[@stevereisman6872]

I'm not seeing a lot of responses to comments but I'll toss out a few questions. Why 300F and not somewhere in the low 200's? I mean, we cook brisket at 225F and bring it up to 200F and with chicken we're only bringing it up to 165-190F so why are you pushing 300F? Also, without hitting the grill you aren't getting any maillard reaction, there's no sizzling of the fat to create that astounding flavor. I've not taken the time to 'perfect' it but smoking chicken often brings rubbery results, seems grilling is better and start with indirect heat/smoke and finish on the grill, paint to perfection, no?

[@AshKickinBBQ]

@stevereisman6872 I don't cook brisket at 225º and I think it's absolutely necessary to cook brisket at that low of a temperature. Generally speaking, most places may start briskets off at sub 200º but slowly ramp up throughout the cook, and indeed do finish at or around 300º. Cooking the chicken at 300º helps render the chicken fat better, and also promotes crispy skin. I'm not looking for a maillard reaction on chicken, this isn't a steak. Your getting rubbery results with smoking chicken because you're cooking at a low temp. Poultry is a sponge, cook it at a higher temp and you'll still get smoke flavor and better skin.

[@keith5223]

Weber kettle

[@AaronBunting-np4wu]

Can't wait to try this one... !!! 🔥 🔥

[@waldos9001]

Let’s see a pellet pro series please

[@AshKickinBBQ]

Unfortunately that isn’t going to happen. My buddy has my pellet pro now.