33 Festive Christmas Smoker Recipes To Try This Holiday Season

The holiday season is upon us, and what better way to celebrate than by adding a smoky twist to your Christmas feast? While the traditional turkey and ham are always crowd-pleasers, why not surprise your guests with a menu that’s as bold and exciting with these Christmas smoker recipes?

The Best Christmas Smoker Recipes

This year, let your smoker take centre stage and infuse your holiday spread with rich, mouthwatering flavours that will have everyone coming back for seconds (and thirds). We have rounded up a collection of smoker Christmas recipes that cover all the bases—appetisers, mains, seafood and savoury smoked sides.

Smoked Christmas Appetisers

Start your festive feast with a bang by serving up some smoked Christmas appetisers that are sure to tantalise the taste buds. These delightful starters bring a touch of smoky sophistication to your holiday spread, setting the stage for a memorable holiday meal with family and friends. 

Smoked Potato Salad

This smoked potato salad with bacon is the perfect combination of smoked potatoes and hard-boiled eggs, crispy bacon, and a delicious homemade dressing making this a recipe side your Christmas dinner guests will love.

Smoked Egg Salad

This smoked egg salad recipe puts a smokey spin on the classic egg salad. This recipe creates a creamy salad with smoky flavours and a hint of spice.

Smoked Feta With Hot Honey

This smoked feta with hot honey is more of a smoked Christmas appetiser than a side dish, but I wouldn’t be sad about it on the table with the rest of Christmas dinner! It combines a mix of salty, sweet and spicy flavours.

Smoked Turkey and Cranberry Stuffed ABTs

If you love a bit of heat to your meal, these smoked turkey and cranberry stuffed ABTs are jalapeños stuffed with cream cheese, wrapped in bacon and smoked for about 3 hours, but with a festive twist with some leftover smoked Thanksgiving turkey and some cranberry relish.

Smoked Meat Dishes For Christmas

Transform your Christmas dinner into a feast to remember with these smoked meat dishes that will be the talk of the feast!

Spatchcock Smoked Turkey

This spatchcock smoked turkey is a great way to cook your Thanksgiving or Christmas turkey, made with a delicious maple whiskey brine.

Smoked Spiral Ham

With sweet and smoky flavours, this smoked spiral ham is smoked with applewood pellets and glazed with maple, making it a perfect choice for festive feasts. 

Smoked Whole Chicken

A home-style smoked whole chicken that turns out juicy, tender, and better than any rotisserie chicken that you can buy! Smoked slowly until perfection, infused with the best flavours.

Smoked Turkey

This smoked Thanksgiving turkey recipe is perfect for those who want that grilled/smokey flavour at their holiday dinner spread. Smokey, juicy and so tender, this turkey will be the star of the dinner table this holiday season!

Smoked Pork Tenderloin

This smoked pork tenderloin is a holiday showstopper with a juicy, flavourful interior complemented by a crispy, seasoned crust in a healthy and impressive holiday main course.

Smoked Beef Chuck Roast

Smoked chuck roast (aka poor man’s brisket) is a great alternative to smoked brisket for your Christmas day menu. Juicy, tender and melt-in-your-mouth meat.

Smoked Brisket

This braised and smoked brisket might steal the show when cooked to perfection (get tips on keeping your brisket moist after slicing)! Serve it up with one of these great brisket sides.

Smoked Turkey Breast

This succulent smoked turkey breast is seasoned with cumin, smoked paprika, and other spices for a mouthwatering flavour, resulting in a tender family dinner.

Smoked Beef Tenderloin on Pellet Grill

This tenderloin is perfectly seasoned, smoked, and then reverse-seared for a juicy, flavorful, and melt-in-your-mouth meal. Easy to prepare and perfect for any special occasion.

Smoked Leg Of Lamb

This smoked leg of lamb has a flavour-filled garlic and herb rub and is smoked low and slow, finished with a quick sear. A tasty dish that’s great for holiday meals.

Double Smoked Ham

This double-smoked ham is coated with a flavourful homemade honey glaze, creating the perfect combination of smokey, salty, and sweet and a great choice for preparing your next Christmas ham.

Vegetable Stuffed Smoked Turkey

For another take on the smoked turkey, this recipe has a dry rub and the turkey is stuffed with vegetables.

Pork Belly Burnt Ends

These smoked pork belly burnt ends are a family favourite no matter the occasion and never last long when served up for the holidays!

Smoked Filet Mignon

With this smoked filet mignon, you get a juicy and tender steak with a subtle smoke flavour and charred exterior by reverse searing it.

Smoked Rack of Lamb with Herb Paste

You can’t go wrong with this simple yet exquisite smoked rack of lamb. You only need ten ingredients along with smoker pellets to add an incredibly wood-smoke aroma and flavour.

Dry Rub Ribs

Is there ever a special occasion when ribs aren’t welcome? Never! These smoked ribs are simple to make with a homemade pork dry rub.

Pork Butt Roast

This oven-smoked pork butt is perfect for Christmas or New Year’s! Seasoned with a mixture of spices including brown sugar, smoked paprika and crushed red pepper, it’s got a sweet Smokey glaze that flavours the entire roast!

Smoked Prime Rib

With a herb paste made from rosemary, garlic, thyme and other seasoning, this smoked prime rib roast is a crowd-pleaser for Christmas dinner.

Ancho Chile Rubbed Smoked Beef Brisket

This Ancho Chile rubbed smoked beef brisket brings together the earthy, smoky flavour from the smoking process with the spicy, savoury rub to create a delicious and complex taste that is sure to satisfy any meat lover’s cravings.

Cranberry Braised Smoked Beef Short Ribs

These smoked beef short ribs are braised in a cranberry juice cocktail. It doesn’t give the ribs a cranberry flavour overall but the liquid helps to braise them to perfection and cranberry is perfectly festive for Christmas cooking.

Smoked Seafood Recipes For Christmas

This Christmas, bring a taste of the sea to your holiday table with smoked seafood recipes that will impress. Simon’s family are Polish and that means kicking off the festivities with a traditional Polish Wigilia feast on Christmas Eve, where seafood takes centre stage.

Brown Sugar Smoked Salmon

This brown sugar smoked salmon only has 6 ingredients and is ready in less than two hours on your smoker with this easy smoker recipe.

Buttery Smoked Lobster Tails

These buttery smoked lobster tails are delicious and will melt in your mouth. The smoke flavour along with the garlic chive butter take these tails to the next level for your Christmas entertaining!

Smoked Salmon

Hot smoked salmon that requires just over an hour to prepare! This impressive main dish turns out tender and flavorful with just the right amount of smoke.

Smoked Side Dishes

While the mains are the hero of your Christmas feast, like ever hero, they need some great sidekicks! That’s where these smoked side dishes come in! Especially if you’re in the Northern Hemisphere, with a winter Christmas, these smoked sides are the ultimate festive comfort foods.

Smoked Stuffing

Take your holiday menu to the next level with smoked stuffing – perfect to add extra comfort food to your festive table or for potlucks!

Smoked Mashed Potatoes

The ultimate comfort food for a winter feast, smoked mashed potatoes blend fluffy potatoes with classic mash ingredients for a smoky twist on the traditional side dish.

Smoker Mac And Cheese

This smoked mac and cheese is loaded with cheese and topped with a crispy panko topping with a subtle smoke flavour for your new favourite comfort side dish.

Smoked Stuffing

For another take on the smoked stuffing, try cooking your turkey stuffing in the smoker for a delicious accompaniment. This smoked stuffing is the ultimate comfort food.

Traeger Scalloped Potatoes

These Traeger scalloped potatoes are the ultimate smoked side dish, combining creamy potatoes with a rich, smoky flavour that is perfect for family barbecues or get-togethers with friends.

Smoked Cornbread With Bacon and Chipotle Peppers

You can bake this smoked cornbread on the grill, full of bacon, corn, chipotle peppers and cheddar, with a super crunchy crust, and lightly smoky flavour.

Let the smoky aromas of your Christmas feast create a meal to remember with family and friends this year by trying one or more of these smoked Christmas recipes. Honour family traditions by recreating a smoked version of your favourite holiday dish or start new ones by adding something new to your celebration menu. Make sure you check out these smoked desserts to finish your menu!