Camp Oven Smoked Chicken

Ingredients

• 1 Chicken
• 1tblsp Rum (optional)
• 1 tblsp Honey
• Coarse Salt
• Sawdust or small wood chips of strong aroma for flavor... eg Eucalypt or pine)

Method

• Step 1Place sawdust in camp oven to cover bottom, about 1cm deep.
• Step 2Place cake rack or wire trivet over sawdust so as not to touch sawdust.
• Step 3Rub chicken with salt and paint mixture of rum and honey all over chicken with a pastry brush.
• Step 4Put chicken on small aluminium pie plate (or folded foil) tucked around to keep from touching sawdust, and place on cake rack in camp oven, and cover with lid.
• Step 5Sit camp oven on hot fire/coals...do not lift lid for 15 minutes.
• Step 6After 15 minutes, baste chicken with remaining rum & honey, and cook for another 15 minutes, or until cooked and golden.
• Step 7Serve with roast vegies prepped and cooked in another camp oven, or on the hot-plate, or wrapped in foil and baked in the coals! Enjoy!

Created: 30 Mar 2015 - JJ
Updated: 01 Apr 2015 - JJ