Roast Chicken And Stuffing On The Bbq!

Total Time: 1 hr 15 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 1 hr

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 4 baby chickens, about 1lb each
• 2 garlic cloves, chopped
• 2 stalks celery, chopped
• 2 onions, chopped
• 1 lb potato, cut into cubes
• 2 carrots, chopped
• fresh thyme
• olive oil
• 3 1/2 ounces bacon drippings
• 4 chicken livers
• 1 cup wine
• salt & freshly ground black pepper

Recipe

• 1 let your fire or barbecue burn down to embers.
• 2 heat a drizzle of olive oil in a pan and add the chopped garlic, celery, onions, potatoes and carrot. add half the thyme. sweat the vegetables until they are soft, about 10 minutes.
• 3 chop the chicken livers. mix together with the drippings and wine. use this mixture to stuff each of the chickens.
• 4 stitch up the opening in the chickens with (soaked) wooden toothpicks and rub them with olive oil, salt and pepper.
• 5 sprinkle the chickens with the rest of the thyme, and wrap each one in five layers of foil.
• 6 bury the foil-wrapped chickens in the embers and cook for 45 minutes. remove from the embers with tongs and blow off the ash.
• 7 once cooked, snip open the foil carefully. pour any juices in to a bowl and put to one side.
• 8 cut each chicken in half with poultry shears and scoop out the stuffing.
• 9 serve the chickens on top of the stuffing and pour over the juices. drizzle some olive oil and thyme around the outside for effect.