Recipe - Tea Smoked Chicken

1 teaspoon Black peppercorns
1 teaspoon Green peppercorns
3 tablespoon Dry sherry
3 Cloves garlic; peeled,
minced
3 tablespoon Soy sauce
1 tablespoon Granulated sugar
10 Thin slices pared fresh
ginger
3 Green onions; cut into 2
inch pieces
2 teaspoon Kosher salt
1 Whole broiler/fryer chicken;
(34 Lbs)
One half cup Black tea leaves
5 tablespoon Brown sugar
1/3 cup Longgrain rice
1 Strip tangerine peel; (about
4 inches long)
1 tablespoon Grated orange peel
1 tablespoon Grated lemon peel

For Marinade, Crush peppercorns. Use Motar and pestle or use a household
hammer with peppercorns between a paper towel. Combine the peppercorns,
sherry, soy sauce, granulated sugar, ginger, Garlic, onion pieces and salt.

Rub chicken inside and out with marinade. Cover and refridgerate a min of 8
hours best left overnight.

Place Chicken breast side up on a rack in a large stock pot. Pour in 2
inches water. Cover, bring to a boil, and steam until meat near the thigh
is no longer pink, About 50 to 60 minutes. Let stand until cooled enough to
handle. Lift chicken from rack and drain juices from cavity.

Line a large wokand it's lid with foil. ( Do not use a electric wok with
non stick finish) For smoking place tea leaves, brown sugar, rice, and
tangerine,orange, lemon peel in bottom of foil lined wok. Mix well. Set
rack on top of mixture in wok. Place Chicken breast side up on rack. Cover
with foil lined lid.

Cook over high heat for 2One half 3 minutes. Turn off heat and leave covered 7
minutes. Repeat 3 more times. After final smoking, let stand, covered to
allow smoke to subside, about 3045 minutes. Do not uncover during this
period, this is very important for two reasons first smoke is heavy and is
needed to penatrate the bird second is this smoke will set off your smoke
alarm in your house. Discard smoking mixture.

Slice Chicken from the bones and arrange on serving plate. You may top with
a Store prepaired Chinese Plum Sauce.

Enjoy this smoked treat. This is one of my families favorite dishes, I make
this all the time when my wives family is in town also. This past christmas
I even smoked a 19# turkey with this same method. Of course I had to alter
the receipe to accomadate this bird and used a large roasting pan instead
of a wok. Turned out great use your own imagination on what to smoke next.

Posted to bbqdigest Volume 98 Issue 023 by "William S. Cooper"
WCooper5@compuserve.com on Jan 9, 1998