Description
Our amazing Dutch Oven Whole Chicken is a simple, comfort food recipe that your entire family will love!
Ingredients
Scale
Chicken
- (1) 4lb whole roasting chicken
- 3–4 tablespoons ghee, softened (sub butter)
- kosher salt and ground black pepper
Veggies + Potatoes
- 1 sweet yellow onion, quartered
- 3 stalks celery, cut into 1-inch chunks
- 3 medium carrots, peeled and cut into 1-inch chunks
- 3–4 Yukon Gold potatoes, quartered
Gravy
- 1 tablespoon ghee
- 1 tablespoon tapioca starch
- 1 cup drippings (from bottom of Dutch Oven)
- 1/2 cup chicken broth
- kosher salt and ground black pepper
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
- Remove the chicken from the packaging and place the chicken in an oven-safe Dutch Oven. Pat the chicken dry with clean paper towels and rub softened ghee all over, in every nook and cranny. Sprinkle generously with salt and pepper.
- Place onion, potato, celery, and carrots around chicken in the pot.
- Place in oven, uncovered, for 1 hour and 15 minutes or until chicken is fully cooked (use an internal meat thermometer to make sure the internal temperature is 165 degrees F at the thickest part of the meat).
- Remove from oven and let rest for 10 minutes.
- Remove veggies and chicken from Dutch Oven and place on a serving platter – cover with aluminum foil and set aside.
- Bring a large cast iron skillet to a medium-high heat and melt 1 tablespoon ghee. Add tapioca starch and whisk together. Slowly add the pan drippings, whisking to combine the entire time. It may get kind of chunky for a second, just keep whisking. It will smooth out and thicken.
- Slowly add chicken broth, continuing to whisk.
- Once gravy has thickened, taste, and add more salt and pepper, as desired.
- Serve chicken, potatoes and veggies covered in gravy.
Notes
- Gravy liquid amount: If you don’t have 1 cup of drippings on the bottom of the Dutch Oven, make sure that between the drippings and the chicken broth you have a total of 1.5 cups.
- Potatoes: option to skip the potatoes in the Dutch Oven and make some homemade mashed potatoes instead!
- Store-bought gravy: You can always make things easier and buy store-bought gravy as well! Whatever works best for you.
- Head of Garlic: Feel free to throw a head of garlic in the Dutch Oven along with the chicken. It adds flavor and roasted garlic tastes amazing with the chicken!
- Storage: leftover chicken can be stored in an airtight container in the fridge for up to 5 days.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 6 oz
- Calories: 460
- Sugar: 1.9 g
- Sodium: 256 mg
- Fat: 28 g
- Carbohydrates: 10.7 g
- Protein: 39.1 g
- Cholesterol: 138.1 mg
Keywords: Dutch Oven Whole Chicken, whole chicken dinner, dutch oven roast chicken, dinner recipe