Best Dry Rub for Chicken
Looking for the best dry rub for chicken? Look no further. This award-winning recipe is second to none when it comes to producing mouth-watering chicken.
The smell alone has been known to drive people to drool in public.
Of course, for the absolute best results, use in combination with one our high-quality gas smokers, smoking slow and low until the bird is perfectly done. However, grilling or baking while using chicken dry rub is perfectly acceptable too.
To start with, be sure to use fresh ingredients if you can get it. If not, a high quality spice from your grocery store will do just fine.
- 1/4 cup of sugar (we usually use brown sugar, but natural raw cane sugar is fine too)
- 1/4 cup sweet paprika (the freshest you can find)
- 3 tablespoon kosher salt
- 1 tablespoon ground pepper (fresh peppercorns recently ground!)
- 1 tablespoon garlic powder (do NOT use garlic salt)
- 1 tablespoon onion powder
- 1 tablespoon chile powder (no, it will not be “hot”)
- 1 tablespoon cayenne pepper
1. Start by mixing the ingredients of this dry rub together in a large mixing bowl (make sure the bowl is large enough to fit the chicken in too).
2. Then (as suggested in the previous step) set the entire chicken down into the dry rub mixture.
3. Roll the chicken around in the mixture for a bit.
4. Gently rub and work the spice mixture into the skin of the chicken. Also, lift up the skin of the chicken in places and get some of the dry rub under the skin of the bird and into the real meat of the chicken.
5. Place the chicken (and bowl) into the fridge and let sit for 1 to 3 hours.
6. Remove the chicken from the fridge.
7. Smoke, grill or bake the chicken and ENJOY!
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