5 Easy Campfire Recipes Anyone Can Cook

Quick answer: five easy recipes you can cook on a fire pit are butter potatoes, chocolate bananas, stone-grilled beef, campfire bear cookies and rustic roast chicken. Each serves 2 and needs little equipment.

Every camping trip raises the same question: what should we cook, and what ingredients do we need? The WhoWhy team has five fire-pit recipes that come together quickly so you can enjoy the campfire atmosphere with good food.

1. Butter potatoes

Ingredients (serves 2)

• Potatoes: 2
• Butter: 2 small pieces
• Rock salt (outdoor seasoning): to taste

Method

1. Wash the potatoes, wrap them in aluminum foil and bake them in the fire pit.
2. After about an hour, test for doneness: a bamboo skewer should pass through to the center.
3. Open the foil and cut the potatoes open.
4. Add butter and outdoor seasoning, and serve.

▶ Golden potatoes deserve a golden fire pit: Coleman gold Fire Disk

2. Chocolate bananas

Ingredients (serves 2)

• Bananas: 2
• Marshmallows: 2 small pieces
• Chocolate: 3 pieces
• Rum and cinnamon: to taste

Method

1. Peel back only one side of each banana skin without detaching it. Cut the banana at 2 cm intervals and pull the slices apart.
2. Tuck marshmallow and dark chocolate between the slices, adjusting sizes, then sprinkle with rum and cinnamon.
3. Close the skin, wrap in foil and bake over the fire for about 20 minutes.
4. For a stronger rum flavor, add a little more just before eating.

3. Stone-grilled beef (a griddle also works)

Ingredients (serves 2)

• Beef sirloin: 150 g
• Sea salt: to taste
• Pepper: to taste

Method

1. Find a flat stone and heat it in the fire for about an hour.
2. Move the stone out of the fire and wipe it with a damp paper napkin.
3. Season the beef with salt and pepper, add olive or cooking oil to the stone and start grilling.
4. Flip once one side is browned.

Note: some stones may crack when heated to high temperatures, so use them carefully. A steel griddle can replace the stone.

▶ A stone-grill set for one: SOTO lava stone plate ST-3102

4. Campfire bear cookies

Ingredients (serves 2)

• Bear-shaped biscuits: as needed
• Bamboo skewer: 1

Method

1. Push the skewer into the back of a cookie (the side without the koala design).
2. Toast it lightly over the fire until slightly charred, then eat.

5. Rustic roast chicken

Ingredients (serves 2)

• Boneless chicken thigh: 1 portion
• Leafy greens: as needed
• Sea salt and pepper: to taste

Method

1. Make a 4% brine (480 ml water and 20 g salt) and marinate the chicken overnight.
2. Wrap the meat in layers of leaves such as magnolia, mugwort or butterbur.
3. Put the wrapped meat in a Dutch oven, cover and heat over medium heat.
4. Remove from the heat and let the residual heat cook it for 15 minutes.

Notes: marinate the chicken in advance; aluminum foil can replace the Dutch oven; cabbage leaves can replace the other leaves.

Summary

Campers seem to eat from morning to night, so these recipes are all simple and easy to handle. Good food by the evening fire is one of camping's great pleasures. We hope you enjoy a great campfire night.