Dutch Oven Roasted Chicken

• Meat

  • 1 Chicken, whole
  • 1 Meat thermometer

• Produce

  • 1 lb Baby yellow potatoes
  • 4 Carrots, large
  • 1 Yellow onion

• Baking & Spices

  • 1/2 cup Seasoning rub, dry

• Dairy

  • 1/2 cup Butter

• Other

  • 24 40 charcoal briquets
  • Lid puller
  • 12 inch (6 quart lodge camping dutch oven

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Description

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup dry seasoning rub (I made my one spoon dry rub and used all of it)
• 1 whole chicken (mine was around 6 pounds)
• 1/2 cup (one cube) butter
• 1 pound baby yellow potatoes, quartered
• 4 large carrots, peeled and cut into bite sized chunks
• 1 yellow onion, peeled and quartered
• 24-40 charcoal briquets
• 12 inch (6 quart) Lodge camping dutch oven
• Lid puller
• meat thermometer

Directions

• Prior to cooking, coat chicken in dry rub and wrap tightly with plastic wrap. I did this at the house a couple days before the chicken was cooked and kept the wrapped chicken in tupperware.
• To prepare for cooking, heat up 24 coals. Place 8 of the hot coals evenly under dutch oven.
• When the cast iron is hot, melt the butter. Sear the breast side of the chicken for about 5 minutes in the hot butter. Remove the chicken and spread the vegetables in the pot, then return the chicken to the pot, breast side up with the meat thermometer inserted into the thickest part of the breast. You may need to redistribute the vegetables to get the chicken to fit. Ideally you want the chicken in the middle of the dutch oven and not touching the lid or the base.
• Cover with the lid and add remaining 16 coals to the lid. Rotate the lid a quarter turn every fifteen minutes or so. After about 45 minutes of cooking, you may need to add a few more hot coals. Just be sure to add twice as many to the top as you do the bottom. Continue cooking until the internal temp reads 165 degrees F and the drumsticks start to pull away from the body. This may take 1-1.5 hours.
• I personally enjoyed carving up the chicken and returning the meat to the dutch oven with all the liquid and vegetables prior to soaking. Enjoy!