Best Dutch Oven Roast Chicken
The Best Dutch Oven Roast Chicken recipe. The perfect whole chicken for dinner that comes out tender, juicy and moist and full of flavor.
- Prep Time: 20 min
- Cook Time: 1 hour
- Total Time: 1 hour 20 min
- Yield: 4-6
- Category: dinner
- Method: Oven cook and baking
Ingredients
Scale
- 1 Whole Chicken, approximately 3-4lbs.
- 1/2 cup Butter
- 1 Tablespoon Italian Seasoning
- Salt and Pepper, to taste
- 1 Head of Garlic
- 1 Large Onion
- 1/2 cup Water
- Olive Oil, optional, as needed
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 230 deg .C (450 deg. F)
- Place the butter in a microwave-safe container and heat for about 1 minute in the microwave, until melted. Or use room temperature melted butter, it works well.
- Remove 4 cloves of garlic from the head, peel and mince. Cut the top off of the rest of the head of garlic and place in the dutch oven.
- Peel and cut the onion into quarters or eighths, then add to the bottom of the dutch oven. Set aside.
- Add the Italian seasoning, salt, pepper and minced garlic to the melted butter.
- Use a spoon to separate the skin from the breast of the chicken from the flesh by inserting in between and moving the spoon around.
- Place butter mixture between the skin and meat of the chicken breasts, spreading around to coat the inside as best you can.
- Place the chicken in the dutch oven pot, over the garlic and onion. Pour the remaining butter mixture over the chicken and use your hands or a pastry brush to ensure the butter mixture covers the majority of the chicken. (You can add additional olive oil or melted butter, as needed.)
- Pour 1/2 cup of water into the bottom of the dutch oven.
- Place the cover on the dutch oven and place in the preheated oven.
- Roast, covered, for 35 minutes, then remove the lid and continue to roast for 15-25 minutes, until cooked or measures with an inserted meat thermometer reads 165F.
- (Add more olive oil to coat the chicken if it appears dry or is browning too quickly.)
- Allow the chicken to rest for 10 minutes after removing it from the oven.
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