Recipe - Lemon-Pepper Smoked Chicken

MARINADE
1 cup Wishbone Italian dressing

RUB
8 tablespoon Lemon pepper; (Tones brand)
2 tablespoon Willingham's W'ham regular
seasoning
2 teaspoon Thyme; ground

MOP
1 cup Apple juice
1 cup Vegetable oil
2 tablespoon Lemon pepper; (Tones brand)

Brine the chicken breasts (use recipe for Dan Gill's brine) for 2 hours.
Remove breasts from brine and rinse in cold running water.

Pat dry on paper towels. Marinate breasts in the Italian dressing for 2
hours.

Generously sprinkle on rub on both sides of breasts and under skin if
possible.

Smoke chicken breasts 240250F with strong to medium flavor wood. Mop every
30 minutes on both sides. Remove from smoker when internal temperature in
thickest part of breast reaches 155F.

Recipe by: Bill Wight

Posted to bbqdigest by wight@odc.net on May 3, 1998