35+ Smoker Christmas Recipes (Holiday Dinner Ideas) (2024)

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How to Smoke a Turkey in a Pellet Smoker

Never roast turkey again once you know how to smoke a turkey on a pellet grill. Juicy tender breast with crispy turkey skin is the perfect way to cook a turkey.

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Traeger Smoked Ham Recipe & Tips

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Sweet glaze and a smoky flavor combine to deliver a delicious bite that can feed any size crowd. Traeger Smoked Christmas ham is not just for special occasions or holiday meals, this simple glazed ham recipe creates incredible flavor with little effort.

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Smoked Pheasant Recipe (Easy Recipe & Tips!)

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Juicy and tender with the sweet flavors of cherry and apple wood make the best combination for this Smoked Pheasant Recipe a perfect option for an intimate dinner. There is something awesome about the presentation of a whole bird, that doesn't take a long time or a complicated cooking process to deliver great smoky flavor with every bit.

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Easy Butter Smoked Shrimp

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This Easy Smoked Shrimp recipe is a perfect appetizer made on the smoker!

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Smoked Hasselback Potatoes

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Learn how to make smoked baked potatoes using a technique maximizes the smoky flavor! These Smoked Hasselback Potatoes are the perfect side dish for your next cookout.

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Smoked Chuck Roast Recipe (Texas Style)

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This is the most tender, flavorful smoked chuck roast recipe you’ve ever had. This smoked chuck roast turns out tender, juicy, and oh-so flavorful. You’re going to want to make this recipe on repeat all year long.

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Smoked Duck Breast

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​If you haven’t tried Smoked Duck Breast, you don’t know what you are missing! The brine ensures the smoked duck is moist, juicy, and oh-so-flavourful. Cooked to a beautiful medium rare to medium, and sliced thin, it’s simply a perfect dish and holiday classic.

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Traeger Smoked Salmon

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​Learn how to make an easy Traeger smoked salmon with a delicious homemade dry brine. This fish can be made with any smoker or pellet grill. Full of flavor and such an easy recipe to make.

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Smoked Beef Short Ribs

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​Smoked beef short ribs is a simple recipe that results in the most flavorful and juicy meat. Smoking short ribs so they cook slowly is the key to having the beef fall apart and be fork-tender.

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Smoked Brisket

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A complete tutorial on how to make dry brined Smoked Beef Brisket, including everything you need to know about smoke times, how to dry brine a brisket for the best result, and tips on making amazing, perfect brisket each and every time. Put this in your arsenal of amazing smoker recipes.

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Smoked Prime Rib Roast

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Prime rib is delicious, but have you tasted a smoked prime rib roast?! We think that the perfect prime rib is created by cooking a rib roast in a smoker.

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The BEST Smoked Beef Tenderloin (Bacon-Wrapped)

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Smoked beef tenderloin wrapped in bacon is the stuff that dreams are made of. We make a lot of tasty beef recipes and a lot of grilled and smoked recipes but this one takes the cake as the best meat and perfect for Christmas Eve.

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Whole Smoked Chicken

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Smoked chicken seems intimidating, I get it, but one of my favorite ways to cook chicken is to smoke it. Smoking chicken is much, much easier than you might think.

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Smoked Sweet Onion Honey Glazed Ham

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Perfect for cooking on the Traeger spiral ham is usually a bone-in ham which is cut into one big spiral shape to make it easier to cut and serve.

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Smoked Brussels Sprouts

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This easy smoked side dish recipe is a winner in our house each time it's made. Between the hint of smoke, rich and salty bacon, and slight crunch of the sprouts, it's always the one that has the kids jockeying for the first (and last) scoop.

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Smoked Pork Loin

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This delicious smoked pork loin recipe will get you juicy, flavorful perfection! Whether you are using a pellet smoker, electric smoker, charcoal smoker or gas smoker, dry seasoning rub or brine, you have a perfect smoked pork loin roast in no time

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Pellet Grill Smoked Meatloaf

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Pellet Grill Smoked Meatloaf is an easy smoker recipe that's packed with extra special flavor! With only a handful of ingredients, it's ready to pop in your pellet grill in just minutes. Learn how to make this flavorful smoked meatloaf that's the best you'll ever taste.

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The Ultimate Easy Smoked Queso Dip

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The Ultimate Easy Smoked Queso Dip brings all the things you love about a great appetizer into a zesty, delicious, smoky, and cheesy dip. If the words spicy, queso, Tex-Mex, bacon, corn chips, sausage, and melted cheese send you into sensory overload, this best-ever smoked queso dip recipe is calling your name

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Smoked Ham with Cranberry Honey Compound Butter

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This is the most delicious and flavorful glazed smoked ham that is covered in a rich and creamy homemade cranberry honey butter. It's the perfect holiday ham that is smoked to perfection and ready to grace your Christmas table this holiday season!

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Smoked Crab Dip Recipe

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If you love a good dip that is easy and super flavorful then you have to make this Smoked Crab Dip Recipe. Minimal ingredients all smoked low and slow.

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Smoked Pork Tenderloin

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This smoked pork tenderloin recipe gives you flavorful and juicy pork every time. These tips and tricks for smoking pork tenderloin are so easy and require just a few minutes of prep time

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Smoked Pork Butt Recipe

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This Smoked Pork Butt Recipe is the perfect, easy main course for any time of the year gatherings. The best thing about smoking pork is enjoying it again the next day.

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Double Smoked Ham with Peach Glaze

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​This easy Double Smoked Ham with a Spicy Peach Glaze is outrageously delicious. It features a spiral-cut ham, topped with a smoked ham rub that infuses it with even more flavor to delight your taste buds.

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Smoked Ribeye

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Reverse searing ribeye after it's been slowly smoked on the grill creates a tender, juicy, and oh-so flavorful cut of meat that just can't be beaten.

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Traeger Smoked Turkey

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Traeger smoked turkey is a showstopper for any meal. Learn how to smoke an amazing Christmas or Thanksgiving turkey on your Traeger, pellet grill or electric smoker.

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Smoked Prime Rib with Garlic Herb Compound Butter

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When it comes to smoking a prime rib, it should be smoked low and slow. Heavily marbled, tender, and juicy, this one is seasoned with a simple dry rub and then lathered in a homemade compound butter that helps form the most delicious outer bark. We're talking the perfect prime rib recipe with amazing flavor.

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Smoked Rack of Lamb with Herb Paste

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Smoked rack of lamb or smoked lamb chops just can’t fail to impress. This recipe accents and accentuates the wonderful lamb taste with madeira wine, fresh herbs, and shallot, along with smoke, which is the magic ingredient! Everyone will love this Frenched rack with herb paste and there are plenty of tasty side dishes which would go perfectly alongside.

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The BEST Smoked Ribeye- Easy, Tender, and Juicy + Video

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Smoked Ribeye, for the tastiest, most tender ribeyes you will ever have! This delicious recipe is easy and perfect for Christmas time!

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The BEST Smoked Deviled Eggs - Easy, Smoky & Delicious

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Smoked Deviled Eggs are easy, full of smoky flavor, and extra delicious. These are the best deviled eggs and you will make them over and over again

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Smoked Turkey Breast with Herb Butter

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This Smoked Turkey Breast is juicy and flavorful with the perfect amount of crust. This cooks low and slow for the best smoked turkey

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Smoked Asparagus

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Smoking asparagus is such a great example. Not only is this a super easy smoked side dish, but tossing your asparagus on the Traeger also adds complex, rich flavor to this vegetable. If you're ever stuck in a veggie rut and need something delicious that takes minimal effort, this asparagus is it!

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Dry-Brined + Smoked Turkey {Step-by-Step}

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The ultimate guide to brining and smoking a perfect turkey. I have made (and eaten) many turkeys in my life, and this is my favorite turkey recipe by far. It takes what can often be boring and bland meat and turns it into something exceptional. Impress your family and guests on Thanksgiving or Christmas with this ultimate smoked turkey recipe

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Hot Pepper Jelly Smoked Meatballs

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These Hot Pepper Jelly Smoked Meatballs are where it’s at and will be your go to appetizer. With just a few ingredients, and a few minutes of hands-on time, you can have an easy and different snack that is sweet, savory, and a little spicy, too.

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Smoked Berry Cherry Pie

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This Smoked Berry Cherry Pie is easy to make, loaded with flavor, and baked to perfection on your pellet smoker. Yep, you read that right. If you are like us and enjoy cooking outside then you may want to try baking as well

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DOUBLE SMOKED HAM WITH ORANGE HONEY GLAZE

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​Make a twice smoked spiral cut ham just like a smokehouse pit boss. This holiday meal classic has an amazing smoky flavor with an apple cider orange juice honey glaze! The double smoking of this holiday ham is perfect for any big meal.

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Easy Smoked Salmon Recipe

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An easy smoked salmon recipe that requires no brining or curing ahead of time. This simple approach results in amazingly flavorful salmon with perfect texture. Serve it up with green beans or your choice of sides for a family favorite year round.

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Christmas Smoked Pork Loin Roast

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This Christmas Smoked Pork Loin Roast is an amazing combination of sweet and savory that will be a new holiday favorite, whether its Christmas or New Years. You will enjoy making this easy smoked pork loin roast recipe and will delight as it melts in your mouth.