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Chicken Lollipops

Chicken Lollipops

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  • Author: The BBQ Brothers
  • Prep Time: 1 hour
  • Cook Time: 3 hours
  • Total Time: 4 hours
  • Category: Appetizer
  • Method: Smoked
  • Cuisine: American

Description

Impress your guests by stepping up your smoked chicken leg game with these chicken lollipops!


Ingredients

Meat Used: 12 chicken legs

Seasoning: Montreal Chicken Seasoning and The BBQ Brothers All-purpose BBQ rub

Wood Used: Apple

Grill Temperature: 275-300 degrees

Meat Temperature: 175 degrees

Smoke Time: 2 hours then 30 minutes post saucing, all indirect heat


Instructions

  1. For this round of lollipops we used 12 chicken legs. The first part is quite challenging but at least you can get the hard part out of the way. We want to take a chicken leg and make a cut completely around the lower part of the leg, just below the knuckle, cutting through the skin and tendons. I found it easier to actually take a sharp knife and cut off the knuckle which allowed me to pull the meat off a lot easier.
  2. Once you have done that you will want to pull that meat off the bottom of the leg and remove it. This process will take all of the tendons out which leaves us with a big ball of meat at the top.
  3. You will also want to remove the second bone in the leg with your shears, but be careful, as this bone may be very sharp.
  4. Finally, we want to push the meat towards the top to make a round ball to make it look more like a lollipop. This was my first time doing this and it took me about 45 min to go through 12 legs so try not to get too frustrated, as it can be challenging.
  5. Next, we want to take a two-step rub process on our chicken. I put Montreal chicken seasoning on first and then our all-purpose BBQ rub on second. This process will give your chicken a dynamic flavor as they will contrast with each other.
  6. The last step of our prep is easy as we want the legs to rest at room temperature for at least 30 minutes, which gives us time to get the grill going.
  7. We want to get our grill/smoker at 275-300 degrees and place the legs in for about 2 hours on indirect heat with some apple wood chips.
  8. At 2 hours my legs were at an internal temp of 169; dark meat chicken is done at 175 so sauce the legs up and put them in for about another 30 min. (We used Sticky Fingers Sweet Southern Heat BBQ sauce.) This will allow that BBQ sauce to glaze on the legs which should be at about 177 by then so take them off and enjoy!

Notes

*Warning* Please do not attempt without a very sharp knife and some good shears!

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