Camp Dutch Oven Chicken
Here’s a chicken recipe that’s both flavorful and easy-to-follow.
Servings 6 people
Equipment
- Camp Dutch Oven
Ingredients
- 1 Whole chicken
- ½ cup butter
- ½ cup dry rub of your choice optional
- Vegetable selection of your choice optional
Homemade dry rub
- 2 tbsp. brown sugar
- 1 tbsp. onion powder
- 1 tbsp. garlic powder
- 1 tbsp. smoked paprika
- 1 tbsp. ground cumin
- 1 tbsp. ground black pepper
- ½ tbsp. cayenne pepper
Instructions
Dry rub
- The ingredients for the dry rub are interchangeable, but using some kind of sugar, pepper, and paprika will ensure good taste and color.
- Mix ingredients together and store in an airtight container.
- Spread rub evenly over chicken.
Chicken
- In the same way that you preheat an oven, you’ll want to make sure your pot is hot before you start cooking the chicken.
- Heat the camp Dutch oven over your coals and melt the butter inside.
- Cover your chicken with the (optional) dry rub and place it into the pot (breast side down). Alternatively, you could do this step at home and wrap your chicken so it’s ready to go straight in.
- Sear both sides of the chicken. While this is happening, cut your vegetables into fairly thick pieces. (If you don’t want any vegetables then skip this and steps 5-6.)
- Once chicken is well browned, remove from the pot and add vegetables into the pot, lining the base with them.
- Return the chicken to the pot, setting it on top of the vegetables.
- Cover with the lid, and place hot coals on top of the lid so the chicken cooks evenly.
- Check the chicken is cooked all the way through and remove from heat.
