I made smoked chicken lollipops today. They are a bit of effort but so worth it. Quickly they have become a family favourite. Thinking doing these up with turkey drumsticks would be very fun.

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        I dunno, really, it’s the skin and tendons… I try to minimise good waste as best I can, but the bits cut off and removed would be the part you hold the drum and likely didn’t eat. I’d say it feels like waste but really no one eats that bit. Plus, this way if you have pets, they get a treat and that skin and 5mm of tendon gets eaten 🙂

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    Sorry, are these fancy lollipops dressed up to look like chicken or actual smoked chicken in the shape of a lollipop?

    If they are actual smoked chicken, how?

    They look great either way haha

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      It is a chicken drumstick, you cut and peel the skin/tendons from the drumstick where it starts to narrow. It is a bit of work doing that bit, then you simply push the meat down into a ball. I then seasoned it, smoked it, when they were done smoking I filled a coffee cup with BBQ sauce and dipped the meat into it and caramelized it on the BBQ.YouTube link This is where I saw them done. Seen a version where there were deep fried, going to give that a try sometime

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      Unless they’ve done it differently tly from how I’ve always seen it, you literally just remove some of the meat on it

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    1 year ago

    Is this mostly for presentation or does it change the flavor in some way?

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      Presentation… but it also gets the extra bone and the tendons out of the way. Makes it fun and easy to eat

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      Very good, plus making them into lollipops you remove a bunch of the tendons so eating them is more pleasant.

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    1 year ago

    For those who said this is a wasteful recipe… that is the skin and tendons removed. It’s not much really and no meat is removed.

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      No, just a Sunday cook for the family and I don’t know seeing the bone as bone white… Seems like that might be a bit weird haha