Dutch Oven Smokehouse Chicken is slow-cooked in a tenderizing sauce that causes the meat to become fork tender beneath a skin that is crisped and browned.
Course: Main Course
Cuisine: American
Keyword: chicken
Servings: 4
Calories: 409kcal
Ingredients
Bone-in skin-on chickenhowever much will fit in a single layer of a baking dish or Dutch oven
1tablespoonkosher salt
1teaspoonsmoked black peppercan use regular
1teaspoonsmoked paprika
3tablespoonsbrown sugardark or light
1tablespoonhot saucethe red kind in the glass bottle
1teaspooncrushed red pepper flakes
1+1/2 cups cider vinegar
Instructions
Combine all ingredients except for chicken in enamel Dutch Oven, or other baking dish. Stir well until sugar is dissolved.
Place chicken in pot, skin side down. Cover and place in 300 degree oven for 45 minutes. Remove pot from oven and flip chicken. Cover again and return to oven for another 45 minutes.
Remove lid and place oven on broil. Broil for 20 minutes, or until skin is nicely browned and somewhat crispy on top, watching carefully so that it does not burn (this may take significantly less time in your oven as they vary).