Lemon-pepper Smoked Chicken

poultry

***MARINADE***
1 cup Wishbone Italian dressing
***RUB***
8 tablespoons lemon pepper (the fake kind Tones b
2 tablespoons Willingham's W'ham regular seasonin
***MOP***
1 cup apple juice
1 cup vegetable oil
2 tablespoons lemon pepper

Brine the chicken breasts (use recipe for Dan Gill's poultry brine) for 30-60 minutes (longer will make the meat mushy). Remove breasts from brine and rinse in cold running water. Pat dry on paper towels. Marinate breasts in the Italian dressing for 2 hours. Generously sprinkle on rub on both sides of breasts and under skin if possible. Smoke chicken breasts 240-250F with strong to medium flavor wood. Mop every 30 minutes on both sides. Remove from smoker when internal temperature in thickest part of breast reaches 155F.