Buttered Whole Chicken
Fun and easy buttered chicken recipe.
Ingredients
- 1 whole chicken
For butter slather
- 1/2 stick salted butter
- 1 crushed garlic clove
- 1 sprig of fresh thyme
- 1 tsp lemon juice
- dash of ground pepper
Instructions
- If you have time, brine the chicken overnight.
- Carefully lift the skin of the breast and smear the butter mixture underneath.
- Optional: Stuff the cavity with onion, lemon, apples, garlic
- Rub Olive Oil on skin and sprinkle salt & pepper.
- Smoke with apple wood, indirect, at 250 until internal temperature hits 165.