Hello and thanks for coming along on our next camp cooking adventure! This is the second of three rather successful dishes we made over the coals during a camping trip this past Memorial Weekend. I started first with the Blueberry Cobbler as I was just so tickled at how it turned out. We also did Cornbread Chili, which I’ll share in the next post, and the topic of this post, Campfire Nachos!
Well, it was originally Campfire Pizza Nachos and we altered the recipe just a bit. The Campfire Pizza Nacho recipe I had printed to give to my sister but we ended up making it over the weekend. The plan was to do campfire bread, but we shelved that idea due to time and went with the nachos.
So we got the coals going, according to the dutch oven coal chart I had found.
I had planned on doing nachos anyway, so I had already prepared the ground beef at home and brought it with. I do this with anything that calls for ground beef – cook the ground beef at home, rinse and bring in a plastic container. Keeps the grease out of your RV gray tank! Then I used my electric burner to cook it up with the water and taco seasoning, and we started layering the ingredients in the dutch oven.
My brother-in-law brought over the peppers and onions my sister had chopped up.
I also threw in some chopped green onions. Wow. I don’t remember it being that onion-y! We had no complaints though!
Then a layer of chips!
The recipe called for a garlic cream sauce, which my sister just happened to have everything on hand to make! She sent it over with Tony.
More peppers and onions!
And cheese!
More chips!
And garlic cream sauce.
And ground beef.
Peppers and onions! You get the idea. We layered everything.
More cheese!
Then we covered it and put the appropriate coals on top. This is my sister’s dutch oven, which is a 2 in 1! It’s two skillets, one deep, one shallow. The shallow pan serves as the lid. Pretty cool!
I think we cooked it about 10 minutes or so, lifting the lid every now and again to see if the cheese had melted. This was a fun, new way to make nachos and enjoy the outdoors, rather than gathering around a microwave!
Looks amazing!
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It was fun and I’ll likely do it again! Nachos are an easy dinner to take glamping..
I amimpressed with how clever the camping gear has gotten over the years and how resourceful and skilled you are to use them .
Thank you! And thanks to my sister for inspiring me. I did the Camp Cooking series for a while and got away from it. She really wanted to learn to cook with cast iron over the fire so I dusted off my stuff and searched for some recipes. We are having a ball with it!