Smoked Barbecue Chicken Recipe

If you enjoy barbecuing outside during the summertime, around holidays or just any old time, then you are probably on the lookout for a new recipe or method of smoking and grilling. Everyone has their own favorite barbecue sauce or methods. Some make their own barbecue sauces or rubs to use. Others like mesquite, hickory chips, regular charcoal or a combination of them.

Here is more of an idea, than a recipe, but I thought I would share it anyway. Get everything you need for your barbecue or grill. Fire up your charcoal, hickory or mesquite. Make your sauces or rubs for chicken, if you use them. The chicken can be a whole chicken, breasts or pieces. I prefer using the smallest whole chicken I can find. I believe that a really small chicken has better flavor than the larger ones. Here is the idea or recipe I use for the chicken itself:

Before putting your whole chicken or chicken breasts on the grill, try pinning strips of uncooked bacon to the chicken with toothpicks. I sometimes cover the whole chicken with strips of bacon and pin them where needed with a few toothpicks. Put it in the smoker for however many hours you usually cook it for. After the chicken is almost done, I just remove the bacon strips and toothpicks and start adding barbecue sauce for the last stage of cooking. I have found this gives the smoked chicken a wonderful flavor and texture that I don't quite get without it.