Campfire Cooking – Dutch Oven Beef Tips and Noodles Recipe

This Beef Tips and Noodles Dutch oven dinner recipe is a great 1-pot dinner for your camp arrival day. You get a true Dutch oven campfire meal without spending a lot of time prepping and cooking in camp. The key is the simplicity of the recipe and the pre-prep you do at home before leaving for camp

Arrival day for any camping trip includes a lot of hectic activity; packing and loading your camping equipment and supplies, the road trip, the anticipation of arriving at camp, and then the unpacking and camp set-up. This all takes a lot of time and energy, but it doesn’t mean your first camp meal can’t be just as delicious as the camp food you get on mid-trip days when you have more time to cook.

This is a basic “meat and potatoes” recipe, except that you use noodles instead of potatoes, and you do all the prep at home so that all you need to do at camp is; brown, combine, and simmer until done. This 1-pot meal will almost cook itself while you attend to other camp set-up chores.

ps. Using the camp food packing and prep tips from this article, Camp Meals - How to Pack Smart, will be a big help for your camp food and campfire chores.ooking

Serves: 4 – 6 hearty appetites

Equipment needed:

• 12” Dutch oven with lid (or larger)
• 1-qt sauce pan
• Large serving/mixing spoon
• Table spoon (yep, just a regular table spoon)

Recipe Ingredients:

• 2 lbs 1” beef cubes – (buy cubed beef, or a piece of London Broil and cut it into cubes)
• 2 cans beef broth
• 1 lb pkg. medium pasta noodles
• 2 pkgs. Powdered beef gravy mix
• 1 pkg. frozen peas
• 1 med. onion
• 1 French bread loaf
• Butter
• 4 tbsp oil – olive oil is best, but any vegetable cooking oil will work
• 1 tbsp Monterey Steak Seasoning
• 1 tbsp Worcestershire sauce
• 1 tsp black pepper

Chuck Box supplies:

• Gallon freezer Zip-Loc bags
• Cooking oil

*Campfire layout note: The best campfire layout for cooking is like the picture on the right. You get the benefit of hot direct flame, and coals and embers cooking. Detailed layout instructions are here at: How to build a campfire for cooking and enjoying.

Prep Work: *this is a “dump and warm” recipe designed to be an easy dinner for camp arrival day.

At home prep:

1. Put beef cubes in Zip-Loc bag
2. Cook pasta noodles – drain and toss with 2 tbsp olive oil to prevent sticking
3. Spread noodles on a baking pan and refrigerate to chill – when chilled place in Zip-Loc bags
4. Dice onion into ½” pieces – place in Zip-Loc bag.

Camp prep:

1. Add 2 tbsp oil and beef cubes to a warm, (not hot), Dutch oven, increase heat under Dutch oven and brown the beef cubes.
2. When beef is browned; add diced onions, black pepper, Monterey Steak Seasoning, and 2 cans Beef broth. Cover and let simmer about an hour over low heat.
3. Slice the French loaf, wrap in heavy-duty foil and lay on Dutch oven lid to warm
4. Using campfire, or camp stove, combine one beef broth can of water and 2 pkgs. of beef gravy mix in 1-qt pan. Mix and heat until it reaches a boil.
5. Add gravy to Dutch oven, (with the beef cubes), and stir and heat to near-boil.
6. Add frozen peas and let simmer about 10 minutes
7. Remove from heat. Add cooked noodles and stir to mix
8. Serve

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