Buccaneer Chicken - Barbecuebible.com

By Rander9576

Ingredients

• For the marinade:
• 1 chickens or 4 Cornish game hens, spatchcocked
• 1/2 tablespoon coarse salt (kosher or sea)
• 1/2 tablespoon cracked or freshly ground black peppercorns
• 3 cloves garlic, peeled and crushed with the side of a knife
• 1/2 bunch of chives or 4 scallions, thinly sliced crosswise
• 3 scotch bonnet or habanero chiles, halved, seeded, and thinly sliced (for spicier chicken, leave the seeds in)
• 1 medium onions, thinly sliced crosswise
• 1 1/2 branches of thyme (or 1/4 teaspoon dried)
• 1/4 teaspoon allspice berries
• 1/2 cup fresh lime juice
• 1/2 cup white rum
• 1/2 cup vegetable oil

Details

Servings 4
Adapted from barbecuebible.com

Preparation

Step 1

Yield:

Serves 4

Make the marinade: Place the garlic, chives, chiles, onions, thyme, and allspice in a large bowl and stir to mix. Arrange half this mixture over the bottom of a baking dish just large enough to hold the chicken. Arrange the birds on top and top with the remaining garlic-chive-onion mixture. Pour the lime juice, rum, and vegetable oil over the chicken. (Alternatively, marinate the birds in a large resealable plastic bag.) Marinate, covered, in the refrigerator for 8 to 12 hours, turning the birds a couple times so they marinate evenly.

Set up your smoker following the manufacturer’s instructions and preheat to 275 degrees F. If using a charcoal-fired smoker, place 1 sugar cane section on the coals. Arrange the remaining sugar cane sticks on the grate in parallel rows (3 rows). You’ll smoke the chicken on top of them.

Remove the chickens from the marinade and drain well. Arrange them on the sugar cane sticks on your smoker. Strain the marinade into a saucepan and boil for 3 minutes.

Smoke-roast the hens until bronzed with smoke on the outside and cooked through (to an internal temperature of 165 to 170 degrees F). This will take about 2 hours. Start basting the hens with the boiled marinade after 30 minutes; continue basting every 10 minutes.

Serve with

Big Cuts

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