Smoked BBQ Frogs Legs

You might have seen on my blog I caught a bunch of bull frogs last weekend? http://theimpracticalfishermen.blogspot.com/2012/05/other-white-meat.html
Since I had no stove with my kitchen being in the middle of renovation I had to figure out another method of cooking them up.

Ribbit
I decided to smoke them in my electric smoker. I pulled the legs out of their lemon saltwater bath to dry and salted them with Kosher salt to help them dry out a bit to take to the smoke while I loaded the chip tray with some soaked apple wood chips.

Ready to go
I smoked them at about 225f and checked up on them every 30 minutes or so. After about 2 hours the meat looked like it had shrunk a bit and pulled away from the bone. I made a glaze out of Sweet Baby Rays, Chipotle pepper sauce from the can and some honey. I gave them a good dose to caramelize, I tasted one and it was not too dry so I brought them in to rest. After 10 minutes resting under some tin foil I sauced them with the rest of the glaze.

BBQ Smoked Chipotle Frogs Legs done
 My buddy and Marine loved them and my neighbor who grew up eating fried legs said they were better than most the frogs legs he had ever had. They lacked any swampy, muddy or fishy taste people talk about, the taste was chicken wings but the texture was more consistent than chicken wings, as they are white meat and not dark.

If you like frogs legs I recommend you try smoking them, and if you have never had frogs legs I urge you to try them.

Thanks for reading,
Dan

awesome!! if i fail on my rattlesnake hunt i definently got a frog spot!

looks great!

Yum yum. I've only had them fried up, but gotta try those now. How do u dress a frog? I've only eaten them @ chinese restaurants.
Btw, your post-processing on the photos is awesome- has a nice pop to it. What's your workflow? Just lightroom? Ps?

Peace!

Nice post and recipe, and you have an excellent blog, which I am now following. Great job. Thanks.

Ummmm... I'd try that 

Yum yum. I've only had them fried up, but gotta try those now. How do u dress a frog? I've only eaten them @ chinese restaurants.
Btw, your post-processing on the photos is awesome- has a nice pop to it. What's your workflow? Just lightroom? Ps?

Peace!

Thanks for the complements, I use CS3, mostly just Photo RAW. Here is a video on cleaning frogs, lots on Youtube. Some more demented than others...

LOL!!! brutal but educational! thanks for sharing

I marinate them with lemon pepper & garlic and fried them using butter.  Yum...yum...

A sharp ax will chop them footsies off real easy, my dad would eat the whole frog,chop off the head and skin it(pull its pants off) the chop the feet with a sharp ax,i have not  got any for a few years since i sold my boat,and hand catching them with a spot light is a lot of fun.