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Smoked Turkey Breast

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Sliced smoked turkey breast on a cutting board.
Photo by Andrew Thomas Lee

Turkey does not play a starring role in the great Southern barbecue traditions, but it is in fact a pretty common BBQ meat there—and elsewhere—both because there have always been plenty of wild turkeys to hunt and because turkey traditionally has been an inexpensive meat to buy from the supermarket. Three pounds (1 kg) is the size of a typical one-half (one side) boneless turkey breast; if you need to feed more people—perhaps for a Thanksgiving meal—just buy both sides and double the rub quantities in this smoked turkey breast recipe.

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