Smoked Chicken Stuffed with Ranch Zucchini

Name: Smoked Chicken Stuffed with Ranch Zucchini
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 180 min
Total time: 210 min
Yield: 5 people
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: ½ cup cherry tomatoes; ½ cup red bell pepper; ½ cup celery; 1 cup red onion; 1 cup KC Masterpiece® Barbecue Sauce Original; 1 cup zucchini; 1 roasting chicken; 1½ teaspoons black pepper; 2 tablespoons KC Masterpiece® BBQ Seasoning; 2 tablespoons olive oil; 3 tablespoons Hidden Valley® Original Ranch Salad® Dressing & Seasoning Mix; 4 red potatoes

Prep Time 30 min
Cook Time 3 hr
Servings 5

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Ingredients (12)

cherry tomatoes halved ½ cup
diced red bell pepper ½ cup
diced celery ½ cup
chopped red onion 1 cup
KC Masterpiece^® Original Barbecue Sauce 1 cup
sliced zucchini 1 cup
large roasting chicken (5–6 pounds) 1
freshly ground black pepper divided 1½ teaspoons
KC Masterpiece^® Sauce Mix & Dry Rub 2 tablespoons
olive oil 2 tablespoons
medium red potatoes chopped 4
Hidden Valley® Original Ranch® Seasoning, Salad Dressing & Recipe Mix Packet

Hidden Valley® Original Ranch® Seasoning, Salad Dressing & Recipe Mix Packet 3 tablespoons

For safe meat preparation, reference the USDA website. For dips, make and enjoy your dip creation. Then, refrigerate within 2 hours or discard.

Steps (6)

1

Light grill using Kingsford^® Charcoal with Sure Fire Grooves^®. Rinse inside and outside of chicken. Season inside with salt and pepper. Season outside with barbecue seasoning.
2

Place garlic and all vegetables, except potatoes, into a bowl and drizzle with olive oil. Sprinkle vegetables with dressing mix, salt and pepper; mix together.
3

Stuff cavity of chicken with half of vegetable mixture. Place chicken in shallow baking dish.
4

Mix potatoes with remaining vegetables. Place onto pieces of foil; fold sides over and seal tightly, forming small cooking pockets. Poke a few holes top of pocket.
5

Mound coals on one side of grill. Place chicken on side of grill without coals; grill. Baste outside of chicken with barbecue sauce every hour of cooking. Grill for 3 hours until internal temperature of chicken reaches 165°F.
6

After 2 hours, place foil pouch with potato-vegetable mixture on grill. Remove from grill with chicken.

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Hidden Valley® Lemon Pepper Ranch Premium Recipe Mix

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23 Reviews

4.3

78.3% would recommend this recipe

Rated 3 out of 5 by bigmama55 from stuffed chicken with ranch this was my day after thanksgiving meal for my inlaws they thought I had worked all day on it, when it only took me 30 mins to make...

Date published: 2013-12-09

Rated 3 out of 5 by Fluff from So-So My family thought this recipe was OK but not too great. Chicken was a little dry and the veggies didn't really stand out for themselves.

Date published: 2013-11-26