| Level: | Intermediate |
| Total: | 9 hr 45 min |
| Active: | 30 min |
| Yield: | 8 to 10 servings |
Ingredients
- 4 pounds boneless, skinless chicken thighs
- 4 ounces your favorite BBQ rub seasoning
- 1 cup low-sodium chicken stock
- 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
- 2 pounds fresh kielbasa (“white” kielbasa) links or fresh sausage links
- Your favorite BBQ sides, such as BBQ sauce, corn on the cob, sweet rolls, pickles, coleslaw, potato salad, chips and pretzels
Instructions
- In a large baking dish, arrange the chicken in a single layer and sprinkle with the BBQ seasoning. Toss to coat. Cover and refrigerate overnight or up to 24 hours.
- When ready to cook, position the oven racks in the top and bottom levels. Clip 2 medium metal binder clips 12 to 14 inches apart in the center of the top rack of the oven, positioning them so that the clips are facing each other and the handles of the binder clips are hanging downwards. Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F.
- Heat a small cast-iron skillet on the stove until searing hot. Add 2 cups dry cherry wood chips to the skillet and let the chips start to smolder and smoke.
- Remove the baking dish with the chicken from the refrigerator and drizzle the stock and olive oil over the chicken.
- Leaving the kielbasa connected in links, lightly prick each link with a skewer or the tip of a sharp knife. Drape the kielbasa links over a 16-inch-long, 1/4-inch-thick wooden dowel.
- Place the baking dish in the center of the bottom rack of the oven, directly underneath the binder clips. On the top rack, carefully slide the ends of the dowel through the handles of the binder clips so that the sausages are hanging above the baking dish. Note: You can also lay the sausages directly on the top oven rack, in the center.
- Place the skillet with the smoking wood chips on the bottom rack next to the baking dish.
- Bake until the chicken is very tender, about 1 hour and 15 minutes. Remove the sausage and the chicken from the oven. Use two forks to shred the chicken, and taste for seasoning. Transfer to a large bowl and drizzle with the remaining juices in the baking dish. Slice the kielbasa on the bias into 1-inch-thick pieces and transfer to a bowl.
- Build the meat tower with the chicken, kielbasa, BBQ sauce, corn, sweet rolls, pickles and your other favorite BBQ sides.
Reviews
Looks Great! but yeah a few concerns. A smoking wood chip pan in oven being one. How about instead of creating that whole hanging system just lay the Kielbasa sausage on the oven rack directly above the chicken pan? Either way here, your oven is going to be a mess. But laying the sausages on the oven rack just above seems little more easy.
I got so excited to make this . Simple, delicious. Most of alll I knew my husband would love it. It turned out amazing. The flavor was as if smoked in a smoker. I will make thisvagain
I have not tried this yet as I want to know for those who tried the oven smoking method….did it smoke up your whole house? I envision smoke alarms going off.
For those that are looking for Jeff’s bbq chip dust recipe, you won’t find it under that name as he has since bottled it and is selling it for $19.95 a bottle.
However he appeared on the Rachel Ray show and made salmon with the “dust”. Go to Rachel Ray with Jeff Mauro and look up the salmon recipe ( which I will be trying) the dust recipe us in the main recipe.
However he appeared on the Rachel Ray show and made salmon with the “dust”. Go to Rachel Ray with Jeff Mauro and look up the salmon recipe ( which I will be trying) the dust recipe us in the main recipe.
For those asking, you buy the individual portable grills of various sizes and stack them. You can get them at Walmart, Target, Home Depot, etc.
I’m assuming the clips are safe to use since that’s what he did, but isn’t the black part plastic?
Look under “BBQ Kale Chips”. Think that’s the one he was referring to. If not, it’s still really good!
I need the seasoning recipe
Where is Jeff’s “bbq chips seasoning “ recipe he used to season the chicken thighs? He said it was on Foodnetwork site but, not finding it . Anyone have luck with this?
I want that tower! Where can we get it?