Name: Recipes for Smoked Turkey Legs
Prep time: 1440 min
Cook time: 105 min
Ingredients: 4 Turkey Legs; 1 tbsp Olive oil; 4 Cups Water; 1/2 Cups Sugar; 1/4 Cups AP Seasoning

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You’ll able to find number of smoked turkey legs at fairs, festival and treats. But it is hard to find full with naturel flavors, tender, juicy and good Smoked Legs recipe. Recipes for Smoked Turkey Legs show how quick and easy to make Turkey Legs.

Sometimes though the appearance is attractive the recipe is tame. But sometimes though the recipe is tasteful the appearance is not good and unable to stimulate the digestive system. So, through this we introduce you the best Recipes for Smoked Turkey Legs.

Tips for Buy Best Turkey Legs for Perfect Smoke?

You can buy good, fresh looking turkey legs from any meat shop in nearby your area. Before you buy the Turkey legs consider these tips.

Buy well rounded Leg with thighs or meat; it will full with the juicy.
Buy correct size of the Turkey leg for smoke. Specially can weigh 1.75-2 pounds each. Best one is buy smaller size turkey legs because it can easily smoke or cook and eat.
Buy your turkey legs early to smoke. Need time to Brine the legs. At least just let them rest overnight in the fridge or you want at least six hours after the brine.
Before you buy check how many legs you need. One leg per person can easily serve no one want to share the legs. Some times per person eat more than one. Therefore you need to make sure enough food for everyone. Also best way is put extra guests into your calculation

How to Ready Turkey Legs

Let your bought turkey legs to hang out in the refrigerator for a day to thaw. Then it is time to get them in brine. This brine recipe is very simple.

Half a cup of sugar

1/4 cup of AP seasoning (salt, pepper and garlic and three bay leaves)

Mix all this up with a quart of water and then put the turkey legs inside big bowl and get them submerged. Add one more quart of water just to make sure.

Every thing’s covered. Then just let them rest overnight in the fridge or you want at least six hours after the brine.

Smoked Turkey Breast is most popular recipe among everyone. Smoking and Grilling not bad among dark meat lovers. Turkey legs more full of consist natural flavors and meat than chicken legs.

How to Smoke Turkey Leg

After time duration, you have to remove each Turkey legs from the brine solution after it soaked well. Then let them to drain on wire rack over a paper towel.

It will help them to dry properly and want the skin to turn out just perfect. I want it to golden up and want it to be bite through. If you get all that moisture off it’s really help to get good finish meal.

Also it is better and important the removal of all moisture from turkey legs that have already prepared. So you can use a paper towel to blot off any excess to speed up the process.

Time to Seasoning Turkey Legs

After preparing your turkey legs in above procedure, next step is seasoning. Most of the time people really enjoy this section as they can alter the taste of meat by applying different seasoning methods as your wish.

Start with a little bit of olive oil or cooking spray and, yes it’s adding a little bit more moisture back but this is going to help the skin brown up. Because it’s a fat it’s not just liquid. Need to get both sides a good spray and then season them. This layer helps to adhere the seasoning firmly on the turkey leg flesh.

Start with some AP rub the same seasoning that we put in the brine salt, pepper ,garlic a little bit of herb in it to give it some flavor and on top of that.

Also add some Barbecue Rub. These are smoked turkey legs. I’m doing a barbecue style. I’ve got my barbecue rub going on them. But you could put any kind of seasoning you want on smoked turkey legs. You don’t have to go real heavy just give them a good dose now.

Then flip them over and get the backside of these turkey legs. Let’s get cooking spray back out give other side a good coat.

Which Wood is Best for Smoked Turkey Legs?

You can use different types of wood chips, Recipes for Smoked Turkey Legs such as Apple, Pecan, Cheery or Oak.

Smoking is stronger flavor to the meat. Always smoke add sweet smokiness and beautiful golden dark color to the meat and different wood add different flavors. Depend on your taste you can use best wood to Smoke Turkey Legs.

In smoking your so prepared Turkey Legs you can use any kind of grill as your wish and conveniences.

These Perfect Season Turkey legs on around our grills up to 275 got a little bit of that light pecan smoke. I’m just going to place these turkey legs right on the smoker with three or four on each side and spread them out well.

How long need to Smoke Turkey Legs?

There are different things depend how long it take to smoke turkey legs.

Sizes of the Turkey legs and coldness of the Legs
Outside weather condition
Smoker sizes and the work condition
Which kind of wood use for smoke

Specially need steady temperature throughout the smoking process. I use pecan pellets on it, so it’s got a nice mild smoke. We’re going to start them out about 275 degrees and hold them. Can get the skin done and that’s the important part when you’re cooking poultry cook. It a little bit higher temp but you can bite through. We don’t want rubbery turkey skin.

Grilling

What is the Best Temperature for Smoked Turkey Leg?

The temperature of grill should be induced up to 275 degrees for better experience of smoking. However any smoker will work for turkey legs just run it in the 275-300 to get the skin bite through.

Place with three or four on each side and spread legs well and they got good circulation space. To check the temperature, you can use Javelin Digital Instant Read Meat Thermometer. Smoke until the legs internal temperature maintains in the range 155- 160 Degrees. To reach that level needs smoke for about an hour and 45 minutes.

You have to continue smoking procedure around 1hours turkey legs starting to look good. Internal the big ones running about 150 degrees. I want them to go to about 175 internal temperatures.

Best Time to Glazing Smoke Turkey Legs

This is good time to glazing, an interesting session of the preparation process. For this best one is vinegar barbecue sauce. You could use any kind of glaze. It is because the acidity balance out the flavors and it has just a touch of heat to go with the flavors in the rub.

I don’t want anything heavy though, just need something that’s need to get the outside little more flavor. This glaze adds taste great that smoked turkey legs.

No need to really brushing them, just kind of putting a light little coat on the outside of the turkey legs. Then after five minutes flip them over and give little coat other side.

After you finished glazing, you should allow the legs again to smoke until the internal temperature reaches 175 at least each leg.

Now our Turkey legs are looking good. I’m just going to hit them with a little bit extra rub.

Check some internal temperatures and see what they’re looking like turkey legs done at 175 internal in the dark meat.

I’m going to take them up in here and try to arrange them. These were some fun looking turkey legs.

Resting Time of Smoked Turkey Legs

After preparation process you can remove legs from smoker and it is better time to allowing them to be somewhat cool within few minutes before serving. I just let the Turkey Legs hang out here for about five minutes on the board; I know they’re still very hot.

You can see Jumbo Smoked Turkey leg juicy running out from the leg. And you can see we got a smoke ring going the meats tender skin is perfectly bite through that’s just a good turkey leg come out. Smoked turkey is so good, all the spices from the barbecue.

Best way to Serve Smoked Turkey Legs

I know it is hard fact manages your tongue and belly until it, but you have to tolerate if you want better experience of Smoke Turkey legs.

This Recipes for Smoked Turkey Legs is very good experience in your back yard; you can serve this smoked turkey legs with roasted vegetables or with smoked Brussels sprouts.