Who doesn’t love easy Dutch oven camping recipes that make hearty one pot dinners? This simple Dutch Oven Sausage And Potatoes feature beer brats, onions, peppers and potatoes in a yummy beef broth.
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How To Make This Dutch Oven Sausage Camping Recipe
Prepare your cooking gear before you start. This is one of my simple one pot camping meals that can be cooked in a variety of ways.
- If you are making this as one of our easy campfire recipes, you’ll need to get your wood burning in order to make a nice hot bed of cooking coals. It really doesn’t matter what type of wood you use because the entire meal is cooked inside the Dutch oven so you won’t be flavoring the food by cooking it directly over the wood.
- Alternatively, you can use charcoal briquettes or make this as one of our camp stove recipes, which is what we did the last time we made it because we were camping during a time of campfire restrictions.
Step 1. Prep the veggies. For this recipe you’ll need to mince some garlic and slice an onion and bell pepper.
Step 2. Heat the oil. You will be using a 12-inch cast iron Dutch oven to make this meal. First heat your pot over a medium-high heat, then add the olive oil to heat it before adding the remaining ingredients.
Step 3. Brown the sausages. You will be browning the beer brats in the oil. At this point you are not cooking the sausages, you are just getting a nice golden brown color on all sides of the links. Once they are browned, you’ll remove them from the Dutch oven for a bit.
Step 4. Add the veggies to the pot. Now it is time to add the potatoes, onions, garlic, bell peppers to the Dutch oven. You will be gently stirring just to combine everything.
Step 5. Add the broth. At this point you will just need to pour the beef broth over the veggies and then you’ll top everything with the browned sausages.
- The combination of the broth and potatoes make this one of our hearty winter camping recipes that is yummy for colder weather trips.
Step 6. Bring to simmer. While the heat is still set on medium-high, you’ll wait for the mixture to come up to a simmer. You are almost done … talk about easy camping dinner recipes, right?!?
Step 7. Reduce the heat and wait. It is time to cover the Dutch oven with its lid and just wait for the sausages to cook through and the potatoes to get tender. This will take about 45 minutes over a lower heat.
- Camp Cooking Tip: To keep the pot simmering in windy conditions you may need to increase the heat to medium or even a high level.
Step 8. Remove from heat and serve hot.
Pairings
This meal already has meat and potatoes so I typically don’t serve anything else unless I want to add a green vegetable like my Broccoli Sunshine Salad.
Similar Recipes
If you like making easy camping meals, we’ve got tons of ideas for snacks, breakfasts, dinners and desserts! Here are a couple that are similar to this one.
- This classic Italian comfort food is cooked in one pan. You can use hot or sweet cherry peppers depending on how spicy you like your food when you make this Pork Chops With Vinegar Peppers And Potatoes recipe.
- Bacon is added to this Dutch Oven Chicken And Potatoes one pot dinner. It jazzes up boneless, skinless chicken breast meat. We’ve added potatoes and carrots to make it a full meal.
Leftovers
Refrigerate any leftovers. You can just reheat them or reinvent them. I like to chop up the ingredients to use in scrambled eggs for breakfast the next morning. I usually add a bit of cheddar cheese to them (because my family can’t ever get enough cheese, ha ha).
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Dutch Oven Sausage And Potatoes
Camping For Foodies Dinner Camping Recipes: You’ll love this simple one pot camping recipe that combines bratwurst, onions, peppers and potatoes that are simmered in beef broth till tender.
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 4 beer brat sausages uncooked
- 4 medium-sized potatoes washed (not peeled) and cut into approximately 1 inch cubes
- 1 medium onion sliced
- 2 cloves garlic finely chopped
- 1 red bell pepper sliced
- 1 (14 oz) can beef broth
- Salt and pepper to taste
- Water if necessary
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Prepare 12 coals for cooking. (see * Note)
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Place the coals in a pattern that will evenly heat a 12-inch Dutch oven from below. (You are using all of the coals under the oven, no coals will be placed on the lid. Place them in a full circular pattern including the center, not just a ring around the outside.)
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In your 12-inch cast iron Dutch oven over medium-high heat, heat the olive oil.
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Add the sausages to the pot, turning them to assure all sides are evenly browned, about 5-10 minutes. You are just browning the sausages here, not cooking them.
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Once they are browned, remove the sausages and set them aside.
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Add the potatoes, onions, garlic, bell peppers to the Dutch oven and stir gently.
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Now, pour the beef broth into the Dutch oven and add the sausages back to the pot placing them on top of the veggies.
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Bring it up to simmer while still on medium-high heat.
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Now, reduce the heat to low, cover the Dutch oven with the lid and let the pot simmer for 30 – 45 minutes until the brats are cooked through and the potatoes are tender. Check the liquid level on occasion and add water if necessary. (see ** Note)
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Remove the Dutch oven from the heat and add salt and pepper, to taste.
Serving: 1gCalories: 474kcalCarbohydrates: 44gProtein: 15gFat: 27gSaturated Fat: 8gPolyunsaturated Fat: 3gMonounsaturated Fat: 15gCholesterol: 49mgSodium: 943mgPotassium: 1289mgFiber: 6gSugar: 4gVitamin A: 940IUVitamin C: 83mgCalcium: 61mgIron: 2mg
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