If you want to spend a weekend in the lap of nature, then try as best as possible to prepare for this event. Therefore, today we want to tell you what to cook on the go for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Baked potatoes at the stake
This version of an evening snack is familiar to many since childhood. It seemed that could be easier? However, there are a number of tricks that will allow you to cook a tasty and satisfying dish.
- Light a fire and wait until it burns to red coals.
- Make a hole in the center almost to the ground and pour washed potatoes into it.
- Sprinkle the vegetables with charcoal and wait a quarter of an hour. Periodically check their readiness by piercing with a stick or trying to break in half.
You can eat baked potatoes with salt, or you can prepare a filling for it. For example, butter with herbs, cheese or mushrooms.
Porridge with Stew
This classic can be easily prepared on site. Read his recipe here.
- Pour buckwheat with hot water a few hours before cooking - this will save you time and treat your friends a delicious dinner faster. You can do this even at home by placing the cereal in a plastic bottle. In this case, after arriving at the place, you will have almost a finished dish.
- Put the steamed buckwheat in a pot, pour water in it and hang it over a fire. Do not forget to constantly stir the porridge, as it can quickly burn.
- Open the can of stew, cut its contents with a knife, and then put the meat in a pot.
- Stir the food, add salt and warm everything together over the fire for a few more minutes.
Arrange the finished dish immediately on the plates.
Front porridge
This recipe was used by Russian soldiers of the Great Patriotic War. Nowadays, it can be easily repeated in field conditions or in the country. Buckwheat porridge at the stake is prepared as follows:
- Hang the pot on the fire and wait until it warms up. After that, put finely chopped unsalted lard in it.
- Sauté chopped onion on it.
- Send a glass of buckwheat and any stew (one can) to the pot. Fry food, stirring for several minutes.
- After that, they need to be salted and filled with water.
Cook porridge until cooked, not forgetting to stir it all the time.
Tomatoes with cheese and garlic
Camping recipes are very diverse, so no one bothers you to treat yourself and your friends with an original snack. Moreover, it is prepared very simply:
- Grate 400 grams of smoked cheese on a coarse grater.
- Combine it with four cloves of finely chopped garlic.
- Dress with mayonnaise, Provencal herbs and ground pepper.
- Cut ripe tomatoes into circles and place them on a flat plastic plate.
- Put the cheese filling on top of the vegetables and decorate them with fresh herbs.
Ready-made snacks can be served with tea or stronger drinks.
Freshwater fish ear
What to cook on a trip if you combine it with fishing? In this case, the best dish will be delicious and fragrant ear cooked at the stake. Read the recipe below:
- 500 grams of fish (ruff, sterlet, perch) thoroughly clean, rinse and separate the fillet from the bones.
- Cut the fish into small pieces and dip them in water diluted with starch.
- After that, fry the fillet in oil until golden brown.
- Pour water into a pot and bring it to a boil.
- Dip the fish, chopped horseradish, ginger and wild garlic into it.
- After a quarter of an hour, strain the broth, return the fried fillet to it, add soy sauce, a little salt and ground pepper.
Bring the ear to a boil again and cook for 20 minutes.
Cabbage and stew cabbage soup
Camping food is usually collected in advance. That is, you must decide what you will cook for breakfast, lunch and dinner. For the first courses you will need vegetables and stew, and in some cases pasta. We want to tell you how to cook delicious cabbage soup in marching conditions:
- Place a pot of clean water over the fire.
- Chop the cabbage finely, cut the onion into half rings and the carrot into slices.
- Put the cabbage in boiling water, and fry the remaining vegetables in a pan.
- Open the can of stew, cut it into pieces and also send the meat to the pot.
- Ten minutes later, put peeled and chopped potatoes in the soup.
- Season the cabbage soup with pepper, add chopped roots and fresh herbs.
- At the very end, add dressing, peppercorns and bay leaf.
After ten minutes, pour the soup into plates and season it with mayonnaise.
Greek salad
Usually collected food for the trip consists of pasta, potatoes, vegetables and stews. If there was a pack of feta cheese and a can of olives in stock, please your friends with a tasty and healthy salad.
- Washed tomatoes and sweet peppers, peeled from seeds, cut into cubes.
- Peel and finely chop the onion.
- Grind well-washed cucumbers and combine them with other products.
- Open a pack of cheese and cut its contents into cubes.
- For dressing, mix the sliced garlic, Provencal herbs and ground pepper. Pour the spices with a little vegetable oil and squeeze the juice from the lemon.
- Finely chop the dill, and cut the olives into rings.
- Combine the prepared foods with vegetables and mix well.
Marching Greek salad is ready and you can serve it to the table.
Pancakes with jam
What to cook while going for dessert? Thrifty tourists often indulge themselves with delicious pancakes cooked right on the fire.
- For the test, mix in a deep bowl 500 ml of water, 300 grams of wheat flour, two tablespoons of sugar, half a teaspoon of salt, a little vegetable oil, two tablespoons of egg powder (you can do without it), baking soda and citric acid.
- Heat a frying pan at the stake, grease it with oil and pour the dough in the center.
- Once the bottom of the pancake is baked, it needs to be turned over.
Serve the finished dessert to friends with tea, jam or jam.
Blueberry Pie in Foil
If you want to please yourself and your companions with an unusual dessert, then prepare for the trip in advance.
- For this dish, mix eggs, sour cream, milk, cinnamon and sugar while still at home. Ready dough should be thick enough.
- Put it in an airtight container and take it with you.
- When you arrive at the place, cut the bread into a bowl, pour the blueberries in the same place and combine the products with the homemade workpiece.
- When the bread gets wet, make portioned “boats” out of the foil and place the dough in them.
Dessert should be baked over a fire on a wire rack for 20 minutes.
Conclusion
As you can see, tourists do not necessarily have to deprive themselves of the best benefits of civilization. Therefore, do not limit yourself to instant noodles and canned goods. It is better to think in advance what to cook on a trip, and feel free to go on a journey towards a pleasant rest.