i need foil packet recipes to make at a campfire - any suggestions?

Answer 1

It's long, but you should be covered.
1. Potatoes and onions go well with almost anything, they're safe.
2. Smear the inside of the foil with butter before putting on any foods, it will stop it from sticking.
3. Always use heavy duty foil.
4. You don't need to add any water to your foods, there is enough naturally.
5. Double seal the foil. Flatten out the edges, fold over about 3/4 inches, press flat, fold the first fold again.
6. You can write your name with your fingernail in the foil. This helps when 50 people are all cooking at the same time.
7. Have extra long oven mitts available for turning and removing from the coals. Pancake turners and such things have a tendency to tear the foil.
8. For large crowds, lay out your charcoal in a long trough. We've actually had a fire trough close to 75 feet long. Make a trough above ground by placing two rows of metal tent stakes every few feet with their tops about 5" above the ground. String metal wire between them, then form a trough with heavy duty foil, folding it over both wires. Spread your hot coals evenly along the length. Each meal needs about 7-8 inches.
9. Depending on what you're cooking, it will be about 15-20 minutes on each side.
10. Use a bed of onion slices as your first layer. The bottom layer is likely to get somewhat burned, even under the best of circumstances, and most foods simply don't taste good burned; moreover, the burned taste will tend to permeate the entire meal. No matter how much you burn onions, however, they still have a good, toasted onion taste.

Lemon Chicken

Take a whole chicken.
Brush with melted butter.
Take a whole lemon, slice, squeeze juice over chicken.
Sprinkle generously with Lemon & Herb spice.
Put leftover lemon peel & pulp inside chicken with slices of onion.
Wrap in foil. Cook until done. 40-60 minutes.
We also cook potatoes & onions in other foil packs.

Upside Down Ham

Ham pieces or steak, Pinapple slices (or tidbits) dash of teriyaki sauce (or marinade) and mixed vegetables to taste.

Ham & Potatoes Au Gratin

Cubed Ham, chopped Potato, Onions, Grated cheese of your choice.

Foil Fajitas

Marinated Fajita Meat (Beef or Chicken), Onions, Green Peppers. Serve on tortillas with cheese, salsa, etc....

Stuffed Potatoes

Core small to medium potato, insert a small pre-cooked sausage or weiner. Wrap in foil, set in hot ashes to bake. Takes 45-90 minutes to cook. Remove and slice top and add cheese, chili or fixins of your choice.

Hobo Popcorn

In center of '18 x '18 square of heavy or doubled foil, place one teaspoon of oil and one tablespoon of popcorn. Bring foil corners together to make a pouch. Seal the edges by folding, but allow room for the popcorn to pop. Tie each pouch to a long stick with a string and hold the pouch over the hot coals. Shake constantly until all the corn has popped. Season with salt and margerine. Or soy sauce, or melted chocolate, or melted peanut butter, or melted caramels or use as a base for chili.

Chicken and Shrimp

Chicken breasts, shrimp, snow peas, celery, and bean sprouts. Similar to a stir-fry. The meat was place on the bottom (btw the chicken had been slightly cooked prior to going), with the vegi's on top. I had a couple of dashes of Teryaki sauce, some spices (tarragon and others from a pre-mix spice jar).

Burger Meal

Hamburger, potatoes, carrots, onion, salt, pepper, and butter.
Also, consider replacing the hambuger with stewmeat, cubed steak, or chicken or turkey breasts cut into stewmeat sized cubes.
As to spices, consider adding a part of a clove of fresh garlic. Smash it first. You might also consider adding soy sauce, teriyaki, or plain old steak sauce.
Try adding small dough balls of biscuit mix for dumplings.

Cornish Hen

At home, parboil (3 mins) a cornish hen. oil it up, salt and pepper and wrap in foil. cook as you would a foil pack (15 min/side). Do another pack of just thin sliced potatoes and onion, salt/pepper with a bit of olive oil. makes and OUTSTANDING meal.
BTW, differentiate your foil pack by wrapping a length of foil in with the folded seam; never an arguement over who's pack it is

Pizza Pocket

Made with those packages of 'flat' dough (those tubes from The dough boy). You take the flat dough, and fill the center with pizza sauce, peperoni, cheese, with optional mushroom, olives etc. Fold it over to enclose the 'goodies' and wrap in 2 layers of foil.
'BAKE' 10 minutes on each side, and you might have a pizza pockett.

Shrimp

For variety, try peeled shrimp or scallops, snow peas, strips of red pepper, sliced mushrooms, thin slice of ginger root. This cooks rather quickly, usually in less than 10 minutes depending on size of shrimp or scallops. Kids seldom like it ... it's too different.

Chicken and Dumplings

How about chicken and dumplings. Envelope of chicken & vegetable soup, about half the regular water, a small (6 oz) can of chicken. Bring to a boil. Drop spoonfuls of biscuit dough on top (use drop biscuit recipe). Cover tightly and cook over low heat for about 10 minutes or until dumplings are done.

Hamburger Patty

A cut up hotdog, instant rice, corn and peas wrapped in several layers of foil (alternate the shiny side), cooked it for about 3/4 of an hour.

Hamburger Patty

Ground beef in the middle and surround with any of the following: potato pieces (can also be the frozen mostly cooked kind), carrot pieces, onion pieces, rice, corn, peas, a bit of salt and pepper, onion salt, oil, garlic, green peppers.

Soup

Add a couple of spoons of Cream of Chicken Soup to the dinner. This provides some extra moisture to simmer the dinner which seems to make it cook faster, of course it also enhances the flavor. You could also substitute Cream of Mushroom if you prefer. This, along with your cubed potato, onion, meat and whatever else you like makes a fairly complete meal.

Silver Turtle

Take a (largeish) piece of foil. Put a few slabs of corned beef in the centre. Put some sliced spuds on top of the corned beef. Put carrotts, onions, green beans, peas, anything you can think of(!!!) on top of the spuds and corned beef. Curl the foil up around the sides of the food (leaving the top exposed). Add a crumpled OXO cube to the top of the food. Add a tablespoon or two of water to the food. Seal the foil around the food. Cook for about 40 minutes in embers.

Egg & Potato

Cut the top off a potato (about 1/2 an inch). Hollow out the larger part of the spud. Crack an egg into the hollowed out part. Put the top of the spud back on, holding it in place with a few green sticks pierced through both the top part and larger part of the spud. Wrap in tin foil. Cook for about 45mins - 1hr in embers.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Hi Em,Fresh dill leaf or fennel would work also celery and carrot. You will have to julienne the celery and carrot or they will not cook in time. I would try mustard mash instead of garlic mash as the garlic will overpower the fish. Just put a teaspoon of wholegrain mustard into your mash and taste if it needs more then add a little at a time. Double up a large enough piece of foil so that there is enough room for the fish and the vegetables,put the fish in the middle and the vegetables around and over it pull up the tinfoil and add a splash of white wine if you have it if not the don't worry. Gather up the edges of the foil and make a parcel but leave enough space so that the fish can steam easily -don't wrap it too tightly around the fish. Put your parcels on a tray and put the tray in a hot oven for 12 minutes serve the parcels unwrapped on the plate. This way you get the aroma when the parcel is opened at the table and it will keep warm and moist,serve on a hot plate or it will get cold quickly.If you have no tinfoil you can use greaseproof paper. This style of cooking is called en papiotte I hope this helps,all the best. Rab

Answer 4

The hobo dinner is a small steak with veggies like a pot roast ... potatoes, carrots, onions etc. Wrap twice with the foil. Fold the seams twice and flat. Cover with coals. Never in a burning fire. If any liquid leaks into the fire it will burn the food.

Fresh Fish, cleaned and gutted. Leave the heads on. Lemon, salt and pepper. A stripe of vegetable oil. Wrap in foil. Cover the foil with about 1/2 of mud completely. Cover with coals. When the mud hardens the fish will be steamed so soft even the bones are not a problem. Again, any liquid leaks out, the food burns.

Answer 5

Umm, I think that Jen deserves 10 points, by default. She had every answer that i usually give for this question...give her the points.

A good foil dessert recipe is to slit a banana lengthwise, leaving the peel on. Stuff with marshmallows and pieces of Hershey bar. Wrap in foil and put on coals until it is really soft, 15 minutes or so. Eat with graham crackers.

Answer 6

You can put almost anything in foil packs to cook over the fire. The best way is to set it up buffet style so anyone can put anything in they like.

Just have things like:

Frozen Peas and Carrots.
Hot Dogs cut-up.
Pre-cooked Italian sausage cut-up.
Ground beef.
Boneless chicken breast.
Baby carrots.
Diced potatoes (Frozen).
BBQ Sauce.
Hot sauce.
Ketchup.
Mustard.
Lemon-Pepper.
Cabbage chopped up.

Then let people put whatever they want in each one.

You can also do veggies alone...season them and they'll come out similar to steaming.

You can also take a boneless chicken breast in a foil pouch along with 1 part honey to 2 parts frozen lemonade concentrate and bake over coals until done. Very tasty.

Answer 7

CHICKEN AND VEGETABLES IN FOIL PACKET

1/4 c. olive oil
4 sm. potatoes, scrubbed and sliced
1 green bell pepper, cut into 1/2 inch strips
1 red bell pepper, cut into 1/2 inch strips
2 med. size onions, sliced
1 chicken (about 3 lbs.), quartered
1 tsp. coarse (Kosher) salt
1/4 tsp. freshly ground pepper

Tear off 4 sheets of heavy-duty aluminum foil 18x14 inches. Brush with oil. Divide vegetables evenly among foil sheets. Brush with more oil. Top with chicken quarters, skin side up, brushing with remaining oil. Season with salt and pepper.
Bring the top half of foil over chicken; fold open edges in a series of locked folds. Grill over medium heat for 40 minutes or bake in a 350 degree oven for 50 minutes, until chicken is tender. Open foil packets carefully and serve.

Answer 8

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Answer 9

Easy Ham and Cheese Frittata

Line an old round cake pan with foil, one you don't mind being in the fire. Line with foil completely.

6 eggs
1 1/2 cup diced ham, my grocer sells it pre-diced and ready to use.
1 1/2 cup shredded cheddar
salt and pepper to taste

Whisk you eggs good, then pour in the pan. Throw in the ham and cheese. Then cover with foil. Set directly in the fire or on a hanging tripod as close as you can. Cook for an hour or until firm in the center. Easily lifts out of the pan by the foil or flip out on to a plate to slice and serve. Easy to put pre-made biscuits in the foil on the fire as well to serve with it! Better for dinner given the time factor, but great for any meal. We love breakfast at dinner sometimes! Enjoy!

Answer 10

Halve an onion. Pull out the inner most core leaving about 2 inches of onion. Fill it with hamburger or ham and your favorite veggies wrap it in foil and throw it in the hot coals. Cook it for about 15 minutes and enjoy.

Answer 11

A veg is a plant or part of a grow used as food