How to cook smoked turkey legs

Turkey legs serve as a best alternative for chicken drumsticks. The soft, juicy and tender turkey might remind you of the fairs and those amazingly huge amusement parks. You know what you can treat your children and your family with these soft and amazing turkey legs. Turkey legs taste just perfect with the smoky way of cooking it. Smoky means not cooking your dish on direct flame. The flavors of the meat get enhanced when cooked in this style. Just arrange for a few ingredients and follow a few steps to get that amazingly delicious smoked turkey legs.

Complexity Level: Moderate
Estimated cost: $2-$5 per serving

Time required: 4-5 hours

Resources required:
1. 6 turkey legs of good size
2. Orange juice about 1 cup
3. Pineapple juice and pineapple chunks about ½ cup
4. Light brown sugar about ½ a cup
5. Soya sauce approximately 1 ½ oz
6. Worcestershire sauce about 1 ½ oz
7. Brown spicy prepared mustard ½ cup

Instructions:

1. Wash and arrange the turkey legs in a bowl

• First the turkey legs need to be washed with cold water. Use a big aluminum bowl to fit in 6 good size turkey legs.
• Make sure that the bowl is big enough.
• Arrange the turkey legs in a way that they are cooked properly.

2. Use of the ingredients on the turkey legs

• After you place the turkey legs in the bowl, pour the orange juice over the drumsticks properly and proportionately.
• Crush the pineapple chunks using your fingers over the turkey legs and pour the rest of the pineapple juice over it.
• Brown sugar needs to be sprinkled over the drumsticks. Then the mustard need to be put over it along with the Worcestershire sauce and the soya sauce.

3. The last ingredient to be added in

• Once you add all the seasonings to the turkey legs, Badia seasoning needs to be sprinkled over the drumsticks and the mixture needs to be rubbed over the turkey legs properly.

4. Inject the seasoning and marinate

• A needle needs to be used that is the injector type needle needs to be used to inject the mixture to the drumsticks.
• The turkey legs need to be marinated in the refrigerator for minimum 2 hours before you start smoking it up.

5. Smoking and before smoking the drumsticks

• Remove the marinated drumsticks from the refrigerator and allow the mixture to warm down to the room temperature before you start smoking it up.
• If you are using a wood smoker, it will hold the heat of about 250 to 275 degrees F for approximately 4 to 5 hours.
• Leave the turkey open in the smoker and cook for 3 hours continuously.
• Final step will be removing the bowl of the turkey legs from the smoker and covering it with a wrap tin foil and placing it back in the smoker for 1 to 1 ½ hour. A wonderful and simple process of cooking smoked turkey legs now gives a feast for your family now.

Frequently asked questions:

What other dish can best compliment the smoked turkey legs?
The best compliments can be a nice vegetable salad, bean salad and a wine also to accompany your smoked turkey legs.

Quick tips:

1. Using a toothpick to hold the turkey skin will be great as its skin will shrink when cooked.
2. To produce a different or a heavy smoke flavor, you can change the type of smoke chip of your smoker.
3. Keep the smoker ready before you are done with marinating the turkey legs.

Things to watch out for:

1. Wash the turkey properly before you start cooking it.
2. You should always have a fire extinguisher handy when you are working on flames inside or outside your house.
3. Don’t forget to bring the temperature of the turkey legs to the room temperature before you start smoking it up.
4. Use the smoker carefully to avoid accidental bunts.