Master the Art of Wood-Fired Perfection in 2024
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Top 10 Overall Best Recipes
Discover top-rated Traeger recipes, ranging from turkey to pulled pork, and uncover the favorites within the Traeger community.
Texas-Style Smoked Beef Brisket by Doug Scheiding
This is the best way to smoke a brisket, worthy of any true Texan. This full packer is injected with Butcher’s Prime, sprayed down with apple juice, rubbed with a prime rib and coffee rub mix, topped with black pepper, and smoked over cherry wood to tender perfection.
Traeger Chicken Wings 3 Ways
Fire up your grill and make Traeger chicken wings 3 ways. Grilled chicken wings are sauced and tossed in a sweet and spicy sriracha sauce, a fiery buffalo sauce, and dry-rubbed with our signature Chicken Rub so that you get not one, but three wood-fired flavors for your next spread.
Smoked Spatchcock Turkey
Fresh & simple ingredients together with Traeger wood-fired flavor make this smoked spatchcock turkey stand out from the crowd. Simply spatchcock your bird for quicker cooking & more flavor exposure, cover it in an herb-packed compound butter, and let your grill do the rest. Recipe provided by Ronny Joseph of The Primal Gourmet.
Meat Church Pulled Pork
Don't skip out on Meat Church pulled pork. Matt Pittman’s method for smoking pork butt includes all the details that make the difference, from how to create a killer crust to the best ways to gauge tenderness. His method for adding even more flavor during shredding is easy yet genius.
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Best Appetizers & Sides
From delectable starters to savory accompaniments, we recommend serving at least one of these appetizers and sides with your main.
Korean-Inspired Pork Belly Burnt Ends
Give burnt ends an east Asian twist by cooking tender chunks of smoked pork belly in an aromatic barbecue sauce featuring ginger, garlic, and sesame oil plus two Korean pantry staples: gochujang (fermented hot pepper paste) and gochugaru (red chili pepper flakes). Once those ingredients are procured (check an Asian market if your supermarket doesn’t carry them), the sauce takes less than 30 minutes to make. (That said, you can save some time by substituting a good quality store-bought Korean barbecue sauce instead.) Serve the caramelized and sticky bites on their own as an appetizer, in tacos, on pizza, or in lettuce leaves with warm rice and kimchi for a fun make-your-own-wrap meal.
Cherry and Black Pepper Smoked Cream Cheese
If you have 5 minutes, you can get this festive, crowd-pleasing appetizer ready for the grill. Then forget about it for a couple hours while the wood fire does its thing, making the cheese deliciously gooey and adding a welcome smoky flavor. Feel free to experiment with whatever preserves you have on hand.
Traeger Smoked Beef Jerky
Traeger Chef Austen Granger knows a thing or two about making jerky. When he bartended, he used to make and sell a variety of flavors along with his cocktails. And he once had to make 400 pounds of jerky for a Traeger event. This easy recipe is one of his favorites and requires no special ingredients. Feel free to use another sweetner in place of the corn syrup. Agave, honey, and maple would all work.
Blackened Cheez-Its
Is it possible to make Cheez-It crackers even more savory and delicious? You bet! This easy-to-make wood-fired snack packs on the umami flavor with a little bit of Worcestershire and a sprinkling of our Blackened Saskatchewan Rub, which features garlic plus bold spices. Just try to stop eating these.
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Best Vegetables
Explore top-notch vegetable dishes, ranging from standout sides to creatively grilled or roasted creations that showcase the art of plant-based culinary excellence.
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Best Desserts
Enhance your culinary experience with a delectable dessert pairing, adding a sweet touch to round off your smoked feast.
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Best Smoked Recipes
Unlock the full potential of your Traeger by creating irresistibly smoked delicacies just the way it was meant to be.
Traeger Smoked Beef Jerky
Traeger Chef Austen Granger knows a thing or two about making jerky. When he bartended, he used to make and sell a variety of flavors along with his cocktails. And he once had to make 400 pounds of jerky for a Traeger event. This easy recipe is one of his favorites and requires no special ingredients. Feel free to use another sweetner in place of the corn syrup. Agave, honey, and maple would all work.
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Best Griddle Recipes
Explore the pinnacle of griddle cooking with our best recipes, from sizzling smash burgers to flavorful fried rice, unlocking a world of delicious possibilities.
Flat Top Pork Fried Rice
Forget takeout. Delicious fried rice is easy (and fun!) to make right on your flat top. Day-old refrigerated cooked rice makes the best fried rice because the individual grains have dried out and won’t clump. However, a shortcut would be to buy microwaveable jasmine rice, skip the microwaving and add it to the cooktop straight out of the bag. In our tests, this worked amazingly well. A ham steak works great in the fried rice, but for even more flavor, look for our Char Siu recipe and use that instead.
Flat Top Garlic-Butter Steak Bites
Quick and easy garlic butter steak bites cook in just a few minutes then get bathed in a garlic butter sauce that cooks alongside. We love a thick-cut marbled ribeye, but New York strip, sirloin, or even tenderloin also works well. Serve them with toothpicks for a fun party snack. Or serve them over baked potato as a main course being sure to include any of that butter sauce.
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Best Grilled Recipes
Explore the pinnacle of griddle cooking with our best recipes, from sizzling smash burgers to flavorful fried rice, unlocking a world of delicious possibilities.
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Best Seared Recipes
Searing, with its intense heat, locks in juices and creates a flavorful crust—explore the art with our best recipes for an unforgettable taste experience.
Maple Bourbon Reverse-Seared Pork Tenderloin
Simple pork tenderloin gets a triple hit of whiskey flavor--in the wood, the rub, and the BBQ sauce, the latter two courtesy of our new partnership with the Vermont-based WhistlePig distillery. Tangy mustard and sweet maple round out the flavor. For best results, season the tenderloin at least a few hours before smoking.
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Best Baked Recipes
Infuse your favorite baked dishes with a wood-fired touch as you explore the top recipes chosen by you.
Baked Chicken Cordon Bleu
Change up your chicken breast routine and make this classic French blue-ribbon recipe. We’re stuffing prosciutto and swiss cheese into a butterflied chicken breast, coating it in flour, eggs and breadcrumbs, then finishing it off by infusing it all with our signature wood-fired flavor.
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Best Braised Recipes
To get a flavorful cook, the low and slow approach is the way to go whether you're craving juicy brisket or rich veggies.
Braised Cochinitas
Make your next taco night chef-worthy with Eduardo Garcia's "Cochinitas." Inspired by his sister Indra, he combined two of Mexico's most iconic pork preparations, cochinita pibil and carnitas, to make the ultimate taco filling. The pork is seared, roasted, then fried up in its own braising liquid for an incredible flavor-packed crispy finish.
Brisket Birria Taquitos
Crispy, cheesy, and full of tender, fragrant beef—it’s hard to beat the pleasures of a birria taquito. And while birria tacos became all the rage on social media, we find that rolling everything up in a tight little package makes them perfect finger food and easier to dip in the aromatic braising liquid. This is a phenomenal way to feature leftover brisket cooked on your Traeger.
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Best Roasted Recipes
For unparalleled flavor and the perfect balance of tenderness and crispiness, explore the best roast recipes infused with wood-fired flavor.
Best of Traeger: How-Tos, Tips, & Grilling Essentials
Level up your grilling skills with expert insights. Explore top Traeger Grills, meat cuts, best pellets, and essential how-tos for you to elevate your Traeger experience in 2024.
Best Pellet Guides
Best Pellets for Brisket
Discover the secret to exceptional BBQ flavor: the best pellets for brisket.
Best Pellets for Brisket
Discover the secret to exceptional BBQ flavor: the best pellets for brisket.
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Best Meat Cuts
Discover the ultimate guides to your favorite meat cuts to transform your grill into a carnivore's paradise.
