This recipe was born from a simple craving: combining my two favorite things. Maple syrup and barbecue. We’re right between the end of sugar shack season and the first barbecues of summer, and I thought it was the perfect time to bring both together in a recipe that tastes like the best of what Quebec has to offer. It’s a collaboration with L’\u00c9picier, who provided me with beautiful vacuum-sealed chicken drumsticks for this recipe. The result is a homemade maple BBQ sauce that’s sticky, caramelized and impossible to resist.<\/p>\n
I already had plenty of thigh and wing recipes on my site, and I wanted to switch things up. Chicken drumsticks are a cut that’s often on sale at the grocery store, and yet people walk right past them. They’re like a big chicken wing. Fun to eat, lots of meat up top, and the natural fat means any marinade will stick to them perfectly. They’re practically impossible to mess up on the barbecue.<\/p>\n
The secret to this recipe is the combination of a smoked paprika and brown sugar dry rub with a homemade maple BBQ sauce. The dry rub caramelizes directly over high heat, and the sauce layers on top during indirect cooking. And the trick nobody tells you: split your sauce in two. One half for basting during cooking, the other half fresh for the final touch. It’s about food safety, but mostly about flavor. That last layer of fresh sauce is what makes all the difference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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