campfire roast chicken with flowering onion and dill

Prepare a campfire using wood or coal, and allow them to burn white hot while you prepare other ingredients.

Place chicken on a sheet of parchment paper lined with foil and season inside and out with unrefined sea salt and ground black pepper. Mince half of the flowering dill and half of the flowering onion with a sharp knife.Spoon clarified butter/ghee into a small mixing bowl and fold in the minced flowering dill, minced flowering onion and half the chopped garlic. Gently loosen the skin of the chicken from its breast and spread the seasoned fat alongside the breast meat, beneath the skin, spreading any remaining butter along the chicken’s skin. Then season the chicken by squeezing quartered lemon over its breast and thighs until the lemons are spent.Stuff the chicken’s cavity with the remaining garlic, dill, flowering onion, young red onions and spent lemons.Wrap the chicken thoroughly in parchment paper and three to four layers of foil, taking care that none of the chicken’s skin touches the foil or shows after wrapping. Then place the foil-wrapped chicken in the campfire among the hot coals, layering them over the chicken. Roast the chicken in the campfire, rotating it and re-covering it with hot coals every thirty minutes to ensure even cooking for at least two hours.Carefully remove the roasted chicken from the fire and allow it to rest for about fifteen minutes before removing its wrapping and serving.