Five-Spice Smoked Chicken

Smoking foods does not always involve tea — smoked seafoods, for example, are infused with the fragrance of different materials such as barley grains, Sichuan peppercorns, aromatic woods and pungent spices. It is a blank canvas, and you can create your own flavours for different foods. My particular favourite smoking materials for chicken are Sichuan peppercorns, cloves, cinnamon and coriander seeds, which mirror the Chinese five-spice powder in the marinade. This combination is a personal