This Cowboy Stew is one of our favourite camping recipes! Made with simple, easy to source ingredients, it tastes good cooked on a gas stove at home, but even better over a campfire. All would-be cowboys are going to love it!
There’s something about cooking over the embers of a campfire that permeates food with more than just a touch of smoke. Cooking, and eating, brings adventure to your meal and certainly encourages jaded appetites.
Our Next Trip
Jonny & I are off camping tomorrow ~ Yippee! It sounds a bit bonkers when most of the country is under floodwater or snow, but since buying my adorable little caravan (complete with gas fire and toilet!) we’ll hardly be hardly roughing it. I’ve been planning our menu (for weeks!) and wanted to try this dish beforehand, just to make sure it works. Thankfully it tastes great. It’s a great recipe for the end of your trip when supplies are low, as it uses mostly canned food. Whilst you could use canned hot dogs, it is worth trying to find decent sausages if possible.
Filling, warm comfort food. Serve with some hot, fire baked damper or a tin foil jacket potato.
- 8 sausages
- 1 onion
- 4 garlic cloves chopped
- 1 chilli pepper
- 1 tin baked beans
- 1 tin mixed beans drained
- 1 tin chopped tomatoes
- Salt & pepper
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If cooking over an open fire, wait until the flames have died down. Raise the pan above the embers to avoid burning the food.
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Slowly cook the sausages in a large frying pan, until caramelised and dark brown. Chop into chunks.
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Add the onion and garlic and fry until the onion is soft.
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Add the chilli pepper, and all the cans and stir well.
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Let the dish simmer until the sauce thickens and serve.
Debs says
This reminds me of my Girl Scout days. : ) Have a great time camping. I am off to the pantry to see if I can make this for lunch!
Jane Sarchet says
Ooh, enjoy it Debs. A real dose of comfort food!
Janie x
Alan Goodger says
All Very Nice ? But where’s the Mushrooms & the Cow Steak
Hardly a Cowboy Stew without the Cow Steak Is it Now But Joking apart Look’s very Tasty However ?? Don’t fancy doing it in this Wintery Conditions… Only after 60 Press ups in the Snow…..Ha ha
Jane Sarchet says
Hehe, to be fair this is an English girls take on a cowboy stew ;)
Janie x
Becky Lloyd says
Mmnnn looks delish, I usually take veggie chilli when we go camping, I struggle to cook rice though (even at home), so usually buy tortilla wraps. Enjoy your trip.
Jane Sarchet says
Thanks Becky, we had a fab time :)
It’s always good to have a few warming favourites ready for any out of season camping trip, and you’ve reminded me I haven’t made a good veggie chilli for ages.
Janie x
Helena bliss says
This was really really yummy
Jane Sarchet says
Awesome, really glad you enjoyed it Helena :)
Janie x