Smoked Turkey Legs Recipe – Disneyland Smoked Turkey Legs
This smoked turkey legs recipe is a favorite snack at Disneyland, so I decided to make my own version at home! Today I’m going to show you how to make smoked turkey legs using a simple brine and delicious dry rub. If you want the style of Disneyland’s smoked turkey legs, be sure to ask your butcher for Tom turkey legs. The ones used at the park are 1 1/2 pound legs from 40-50 pound turkeys! The park sells over a million and a half of their Disneyland smoked turkey legs every year!
Here’s our recipe for smoked turkey legs:
4-6 turkey legs (ask your butcher for the largest size he can get)
Brine:
2 cups warm water
1/2 cup (scant) seasoned meat tenderizer
2 tablespoons liquid smoke
1/2 tablespoon red Hawaiian clay sea salt (or regular kosher or sea salt)
1/4 cup soft brown sugar
4 bay leaves
Peppercorns, as desired
8 cups cold water
Mix together all of the brine ingredients, add the 8 cups of cold water last. Put two turkey legs each in a large Ziploc bag and cover with the brine. You will have enough brine to make about 6 turkey legs.
Zip tight and place in a large casserole dish and let sit overnight in the refrigerator, up to 12 hours or so. Be sure the brine is touching the legs, and you can turn them around once in a while during the brining stage to ensure complete coverage.
The next day, set your smoker to about 220 F. Drain the legs from the brine, rinse the legs lightly under cool running water, and pat dry.
Season with your favorite dry rub. I used my BBQ dry rub, which tasted amazing on the turkey legs. You can find the video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7A8VGfGHel0
Smoke for about 4 hours at 225 F. Bring it down to 180F for the last hour, or until the meat reaches an internal temperature of 160 F. When you remove the turkey legs, it will continue to cook up to the proper 165 F.
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This is not a smoke but a bbq 😊
Those really look tender and tasty. 😋
Those look awesome bud
Where am I going to get those ingredients in this quarantine
GOSH, DANG, Jason! Those big, fat turkey legs looked so good, I just wanted to jump thru this screen and chow down like a piranha when you pulled them off the smoker. Your little doggie is lucky I wasn't there to fight him/her for a bite! So, with that tiny nibble you took, could you even taste it? Well, I'm ALL IN! You get "thumbs up" & a subscription from me. KEEP UP THE EXCELLENT WORK — OUTSTANDING VIDEO! THANK YOU!
Lolh good video!
Great job and video. I could clearly see the glands in your mouth were watering before you took that bite lol!
Love your recipe! Can’t wait to make them!
Thank you for your time Mr.
Got your self a new subscriber.
good luck finding kosher salt in europe
I gotta do that some day
My God I love him he is such a cutie by the doggy dog I love him yes give me some turkey leg💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽💋💋💋💋💋
I'd pull that skin all the way down the leg if I was doing it.
Everything looks great! 💕
Where's the rest of the leg?
Disneyland legs suck.. Six flags are much better less geasey..
seriously that was a great video, got some legs in the smoker right now, hope they turn out as good as your looked.
24,000 MG of salt.. lol
That was awesome.
What if we do the whole turkey? Or Is that not possible
Thank you for the video, I'm going to make these this Thanksgiving.
Why rinse the turkey legs and remove that delicious brine? That doesn't make any sense.
Why rinse?
I think they look better than Disneyland's!
Red Hawaiian salt
1 pound
$15.00
Morton's salt
1 pound
like $1 or so
Christ…. it's salt
Why brine if your gonna rinse it off?