BBQ Dutch Oven Chicken and Potatoes Recipe
If you are looking for the best camping food recipe, look no further! This BBQ Dutch Oven Chicken and Potatoes recipe couldn’t be easier, and it will absolutely be a big hit on your next camping trip. Soooo yummy! Don’t have a dutch oven? You can easily make this on the stove or in a slow cooker as well!
Dutch Oven BBQ Chicken
When we went camping a few weeks ago, I was particularly excited about the food we were going to make. My dad always says that everything tastes better in the mountains, and that is a sentiment I agree with wholeheartedly.
I knew that I wanted to make a dutch oven meal that my dad is famous (at least, in my family) for making. We only ever had it when we went camping, and it was something I looked forward to every time. It’s a very simple meal, but it’s full of lots of flavor! This is guaranteed to be one of the best dutch oven chicken recipes out there.
Since we don’t have a camping dutch oven (something I hope to change soon), we borrowed one of my dads and picked up some charcoal from the store before we set out. The hardest part about this dish was getting our coals going well enough so we could actually cook the food. And then, of course, waiting the 50-60 minutes it took to cook. It was torture!
It’s basically bacon, chicken breasts, onions, potatoes, and BBQ sauce. Simple, simple, simple! I found out later that my dad actually puts butter in as well, but we didn’t (because we didn’t know about it), and it still tasted great. It really made me want to do more dutch oven cooking, because it turned out so well.
Here’s a little photo demonstration!
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Ingredients
- 3-4 large chicken breasts
- 1 package of bacon
- 5 small potatoes, sliced into 1/4 – 1/2 inch slices
- 1 red onion, chopped
- 1 lb butter, optional
- 1 bottle of your favorite BBQ sauce
- 26 coals
Instructions
- Make sure your coals are burning nicely. Place dutch oven on top and put bacon in dutch oven.
- Cook bacon until cooked. Drain most of the excess grease (you want to keep probably 1/4 cup in the dutch oven)
- Add onions, potatoes, chicken breasts, onion, butter, and BBQ sauce into the dutch oven.
- Cover with lid and make sure there are 14 coals underneath the the dutch oven and 12 on top.
- Cook about 35-50 minutes, or until the chicken is done.
Notes
This can be made in a slow cooker. Just precook the bacon and onions, and then throw everything in the slow cooker until the chicken is done – about 3-4 hours on high, 4-5 on low.
BBQ Dutch Oven Chicken and Potatoes Recipe
Ingredients
- 3-4 large chicken breasts
- 1 package of bacon
- 5 small potatoes, sliced into 1/4 - 1/2 inch slices
- 1 red onion, chopped
- 1 lb butter, optional
- 1 bottle of your favorite BBQ sauce
- 26 coals
Instructions
- Make sure your coals are burning nicely. Place dutch oven on top and put bacon in dutch oven.
- Cook bacon until cooked. Drain most of the excess grease (you want to keep probably 1/4 cup in the dutch oven)
- Add onions, potatoes, chicken breasts, onion, butter, and BBQ sauce into the dutch oven.
- Cover with lid and make sure there are 14 coals underneath the the dutch oven and 12 on top.
- Cook about 35-50 minutes, or until the chicken is done.
Notes
This can be made in a slow cooker. Just precook the bacon and onions, and then throw everything in the slow cooker until the chicken is done - about 3-4 hours on high, 4-5 on low.
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Random question, have you ever tried this with chicken thighs? Going to try it with thighs and less butter, but just wanted to know if it’s been tried before.
I have not, but I think it would still turn out well!
18 ounces is 500 ml which seems like a loottt of bbq sauce?
This recipe goes big!
Tried it today. It would have been nice to know to cut up the chicken in advance. Cooked using charcoal for over an hour and still couldn’t get the potatoes down. Moved to the oven for another 30 minutes @ 350. Still wasn’t done. Flavor was good but because of the potatoes I am disappointed. I don’t think enough charcoal was specified in the recipe Next time I will use more and use canned sliced potatoes
Sorry to hear you had trouble! We don’t cut the chicken up before putting it in – I am sure it’s frustrating with the potatoes not getting done. I hope it will turn out better next time! This is the recipe and amount of charcoal we have used for many years without trouble, but it doesn’t hurt to try more on your next attempt 🙂 good luck!
I added a little more chicken and chunks of kielbasa and used 1 stick of butter and it was enough to feed 10 people. I served it with a side salad and everybody loved it. Thanks for the recipe! I’l definitely be making it again…and again!!!
Yummy! So glad you enjoyed it!
Dumb question do you leave the bacon in with the recipe or just cook it for the grease then remove it ?
Thanks from a backyard, camping, hunting dutch oven fool from Wyoming
Not a dumb question – keep the bacon in 🙂
Found this recipe before going camping last summer, bought a dutch oven just for this recipe. I used the full recipe with the 1 pound of butter and it was absolutely amazing! It fed 10 people and we were all full. Getting ready to go camping again, so I had to come and find it again for this camping trip. I hope it becomes a camping tradition!
I’m so glad you loved it! Thanks for sharing your experience!
am i the only one that cannot get to the recipe with the amounts?!?!
Hi, Aimee! What do you mean?
This looks delicious but I can’t find the recipe link to get the correct amounts. Where should I look?
So sorry about this! We’ve been having issues with our recipe card. You should be able to see the recipe now 🙂
It worked. Thanks!
So glad <3 I hope you enjoy!
I got it. It may have been the device i was using. It didnt show the amounts of ingredients. But i got it now. 🙂
We were having issues with our recipe card, so I’m glad it’s working now!
Was there enough room to perhaps double the recipe?
I think so!
Is the “1 lb butter” ingredient a misprint? Just wondering if it was meant to say 1 stick of butter, as 1 pounds seems like a LOT of butter for this dish.
Actually, it’s not! It is a lot of butter, but you can certainly cut down on it. It’s part of why it’s the best dutch oven chicken 😉
Was there room for more in the dutch oven? Like another commenter, we need to feed many people, and would like to fit as much as possible in our oven.
Yes, there definitely was!
The regular recipe with “1 Stick” of butter filled my 12” deep about 1/3. So, you could definitely double it.
Thanks!
This looks great! What size dutch oven did you use?
I think it’s a 12″!
I know the butter is optional, but a whole pound?
No one ever said this was healthy 🙂 Definitely omit or lessen if you want.
This looks so great! We are going camping this week and are definitely going to try it. One question, in the pictures the chicken looks like it is cut up into chunks, did you cook the breasts whole or cut them up? Thanks!
Hi! We cut it up before putting it in 🙂
do you cut the chicken first or not? as you have stated that you do and you don’t on this same thread??
haha, whoops! I guess that means I do both and it turns out either way 🙂 This is a pretty “do as you please” type recipe 🙂
Hey, I was just wondering about how many people this would feed. We’re going to go camping and wonder how many dutch ovens we would need to feed 20 or so people. Thanks!
Hey, Kevin. I would suggest having probably 3 dutch ovens going!
We are actually going camping tomorrow, so this is super helpful! Thanks so much! I can’t wait to try it out with our new Dutch Oven!
I’m 67 yrs old and not much of a camper anymore. So I put a big pot of on the stove-top and invited my family for dinner! It smells like heaven and I’ve been sampling (quality control, you know). This is so good and easy! I’m serving with crusty bread and some corn on the cob. I will make this again!
Thanks for commenting! I think that putting it on the stove sounds great – my sister apparently makes it all the time in her slow cooker all the time. I hope that your family enjoys it. I think if you are enjoying the samples, you’ll definitely enjoy the full meal 🙂
This looks so good! Yum! I want some!
Thank you! It sure is tasty 🙂
What size bottle of bbq sauce? Small, med. Large?
Thx.
I just use the standard size at the store – I think around 18 ounces?