Pellet Grill Recipes
Looking for inspiration for your next meal? Explore the best pellet grill recipes that let you grill, smoke, braise, bake, roast, and BBQ.
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New Recipes
Take your grilling to the next level with bold new Traeger recipes added every week. Explore fresh ideas from our Traeger Kitchen and brand ambassadors, ranging from smoked meats to flavorful sides. We've got everything you need to fire up the ultimate backyard feast and impress your guests.
Crispy Smoke Fried Ribs
When crispy fried chicken texture meets juicy, smoky pork perfection, you’ve got smoke fried ribs. Each bite is rich, savory, and totally indulgent—balanced out by a zippy, acidic dipping sauce that cuts through the richness like a pro. Warning: these might ruin regular ribs for you forever.
Cornbread Chili Casserole
Whether you're feeding a crowd or craving comfort food, this chili casserole is a delicious twist on classic chili pie. Made in a single skillet, it layers rich, savory chili with a golden, slightly sweet cornbread topping for the ultimate cozy meal. Prepare the chili filling ahead of time or use your favorite homemade or store-bought chili to save time.
Flatrock Grilled Cheese
This isn’t your average grilled cheese—it’s a crispy, gooey griddle masterpiece. Dijon mustard adds a tangy kick, while melty gouda and mozzarella bring the cheese pull dreams are made of. Plus, it’s all sandwiched together between two slices of toasty bread with a crispy parmesan crust.
Roasted Tomato Soup
Leave the canned stuff in the past with Dennis the Prescott’s from-scratch roasted tomato soup recipe. Roasting the veggies on the Traeger gives this dish a smoky, wood-fired flavor base. Then blend it all into a rich, velvety soup and top with homemade rosemary croutons for the ultimate cozy combo—especially next to a killer grilled cheese.
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Top Recipes
Give our most popular Traeger pellet grill recipes a try.
321 Ribs
Our famously easy 321 ribs will make your rib game the envy of the neighborhood. This super simple recipe takes all the confusion out of making baby back ribs without sacrificing any of the flavor. You'll begin this method by smoking your ribs for 3 hours, then cooking inside foil for 2 hours. Finish by removing your ribs from the foil, brushing on BBQ sauce, and then cook for another hour.
Traeger Smoked Turkey
With a crispy outside and a juicy inside, this Traeger smoked turkey calls for simple spices and primal wood-fired flavor. Garlic, butter, thyme, rosemary, salt, and pepper combine to create an herbal rub to maximize flavor while you smoke the meat for 3-4 hours. Make sure to get an early start to begin smoking your smoked whole turkey.
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Top Traeger Thanksgiving Turkey Recipes
Discover the ultimate Traeger turkey experience with our mouthwatering recipes. From succulent smoked turkey thighs to perfectly spatchcocked birds, we'll show you how to transform your turkey into a masterpiece.
Traeger Smoked Turkey
With a crispy outside and a juicy inside, this Traeger smoked turkey calls for simple spices and primal wood-fired flavor. Garlic, butter, thyme, rosemary, salt, and pepper combine to create an herbal rub to maximize flavor while you smoke the meat for 3-4 hours. Make sure to get an early start to begin smoking your smoked whole turkey.
Easy Smoked Turkey Recipe For Thanksgiving
Enjoy this easy smoked turkey recipe for Thanksgiving or other special occasions. This bird is brined in our signature citrus brine kit, rubbed down with a smoked turkey rub, and smoked over none other than our Turkey Blend wood pellets for flavor inside and out.
Best Brined Pellet Grill Turkey
Elevate your Thanksgiving feast by smoking a turkey on a pellet grill. Brined to perfection and seasoned just right, this bird boasts irresistibly crispy skin and juicy, flavorful meat. This pellet grill turkey is the ultimate showstopper that will have your guests raving long after the plates are cleared.
Traeger Smoked Turkey Breast
Get ready for turkey day with this epic Traeger smoked turkey breast. Brine your turkey breast to lock in juices and flavor, then slow smoke and roast for a memorable meal that's flavorfully rewarding. Plan ahead! This brined smoked turkey breast recipe requires an overnight brine.
Mayo Coated Turkey with Whiskey Spritz
Chef Tim Hollingsworth's secret to the most tender turkey? Mayonnaise. Unlike oil and butter, the high-fat coating stays put when he slathers his turkey with it, basting the bird as it cooks and keeping it moist and tender. It also encourages the Maillard reaction, which is a fancy way of saying it turns the turkey a gorgeous deep brown color. (For the best results you will want to start ahead, coat the turkey, and then let it chill in the fridge for at least 12 hours.) Does the coating make the turkey taste like mayonnaise? Nope. All you taste is delicious turkey goodness.
Traeger Spatchcock Turkey
This Traeger spatchcock turkey kicks tradition to the curb with a wood-fired twist. It gets a double hit of flavor from Traeger Rub and an aromatic herb paste, resulting in a roasted spatchcock turkey on a pellet grill that comes out gorgeously golden, tender, and incredibly juicy.
Easy Smoked Turkey Recipe For Thanksgiving
Enjoy this easy smoked turkey recipe for Thanksgiving or other special occasions. This bird is brined in our signature citrus brine kit, rubbed down with a smoked turkey rub, and smoked over none other than our Turkey Blend wood pellets for flavor inside and out.
Herby 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.
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How To Cook On The Traeger
Learn all the different ways to cook on the Traeger from smoking and grilling, to baking and roasting.
How to Smoke Turkey
Smoking a turkey on a pellet grill is the game-changer you didn't know you needed. If you're looking to make epic smoked turkey this year, check out our guide that walks you through step-by-step - from buying, to brining, to smoking and serving it like a pro. Discover the best tools, turkey cook times, and smoked turkey recipe. Get ready to impress the dinner table this year.
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Flatrock Griddle Recipes
Braised Chicken Tacos with Cracklins
Inspired by birria tacos, these braised chicken tacos get dipped in a spicy enchilada sauce before a turn on the griddle. Crisped chicken skin (aka cracklins) adds welcome crunch to the filling. Serve these up with some rice, beans, and Mexican beer for the full cantina experience at home.
Flat Top Stuffed French Toast
Chef JRob describes his sweet brunch dish as a cross between French toast and cheesecake. Yet the cream cheese and blueberry filling could not be easier to make, and the large surface area of the flat top lets you cook all the brioche at once so everyone can eat at the same time.
Flat Top Porcini-Dusted Smashed Burger
We’re taking the classic smashed burger up a notch with porcini powder and a special sauce. The dried mushroom powder, sometimes called dust, gives the meat an even deeper savory flavor. If your supermarket carries dried porcinis but not powder, simply grind the whole dried mushrooms in a spice grinder. Spreading a little mayo on the buns before toasting them makes them nicely browned and crisped.
Flat Top Cinnamon-Sugar Crepe Cake
Diva Q makes this fantastical, many-layered cake for her kids, who request it often for breakfast (and just about any other time of day). Once you try it, you will know why. For best results, let the crepe batter rest for at least a couple of hours but preferably overnight.
Flat Top Spicy Chicken Fajitas
Boneless, skinless chicken thighs are a great choice for cooking on the griddle. As convenient and quick cooking as chicken breast, they have a deeper flavor and are more forgiving so they’re almost guaranteed to stay juicy after cooking. We like the heat the jalapeño ribs provide. If that’s not your thing, cut the seeds ribs out of the slices. Depending on how filled you like your fajitas, you may have extra vegetables; if so, save them to use in omelets or on pizza.