This Sausage and Cider Campfire Skillet is a real treat at any time, but even better when cooked in the great outdoors!
I cooked this sausage and cider campfire skillet up over the weekend to make the most of this seasons new potatoes along with a bag of our local butchers award winning sausages.
Two of my very favourite things.
If you’re camping it’s worth cooking up double the amount of potatoes the day before, and reserving half for this recipe.
You can of course cook the potatoes within the cider. But then you’ll miss out on the lovely golden brown skins of the fried potatoes.
One-pan dishes really are the backbone of camping recipes as no one enjoys the washing up aspect when cooking outdoors.
In fact, if your camp kitchen doesn’t already sport a cast iron skillet or pan. You may want to look out for one as ‘washing them up’ in the traditional sense will actually ruin them!
Once seasoned, a cast iron pan becomes more and more non-stick the more you use it.
Washing up water that contains detergent to break down the grease will also break down and strip back that hard-earned layer of natural non-stick coating.
Rather than washing them out, you should scrape out any food residues with your spatula, then wipe clean with paper towels.
Lastly, wipe around a small amount of cooking oil to protect the metal against moisture.
And that’s the biggest down-side of cast iron – it’ll rust really easily – even if you just leave it outside the tent overnight.
But once you get your head around how to look after your cast iron skillet, it’ll give you years and years of use.
And just to prove that you don’t have to keep this recipe just for campfire adventures, I made it in my campervan too!
Do let me know if you give this sausage and cider campfire skillet a go on your next camping trip, and feel free to tag me in a pic on facebook, twitter or instagram :)
Janie x
Sausage and Cider Campfire Skillet
- 1 tablespoon oil
- 6 sausages
- 20 cooked new potatoes
- 6 banana shallots or 1 onion, diced
- 2 sweet peppers
- 1 can cider dry or medium dry
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 2 teaspoons wholegrain mustard
- Fry the sausages in the oil in a medium hot skillet or large frying pan until the skins are nicely coloured.
- Remove the sausages from the pan. Add in the remaining fat and fry the cooked potatoes, sweet peppers and shallots until they are lightly coloured too.
- Remove the vegetables too, turn the heat up and pour in the can of cider. Boil hard until the cider has reduced by half and has thickened a little.
- Pop the sausages & veggies back into the cider, season with the salt, black pepper and mustard and serve.
Marsha | Marsha's Baking Addiction says
This looks absolutely delicious! I love sausage meals!
Jane Sarchet says
Thanks Marsha :)
Janie x
Strength and Sunshine says
This is such a fun idea!! All about the cast iron!
Jane Sarchet says
Woohooo! Me too, although it did take a while to learn to love the stuff :)
Janie x
revisfoodography says
Sound like a brilliant idea of camping. Lovely pics too. Especially love the last one with the bowl in the hand. Very inviting :-)
Jane Sarchet says
Aw, thank you!
Janie x
Azlin Bloor says
Ooooh, now you’re just teasing! It’s raining (still!) here in the UK and this is just what the day calls for! The perfect comfort recipe, Janie!
Jane Sarchet says
Exactly Azlin! Whatever the weather, I always want comfort food when camping!
Janie x
Burt H Burrell says
This recipe looks delicious. I’ll try it this week. Could you clarify, when you say cider, are you using apple cider or some type of soft drink or soda? Or, is it a beverage with alcohol like hard cider or beer? I am a Scout Master and will put this recipe together for my boys to cook up — But, can not use alcohol. Thank you in advance for clarifying for me.
Jane Sarchet says
Hey Burt thanks for the message! I used alcoholic/hard cider, but why not use apple juice instead? All the flavour, none of the alcohol!
Good luck and I hope they love it :)
Janie x
m says
I’ll have to use ginger beer. Should be fantastic!
Jane Sarchet says
Oooh, nice idea! Let me know how it goes?
Jane x
Brian Walter says
I made this last night at home for my wife and I. So easy and so delicious. Thank you for the recipe.
Jane Sarchet says
That’s great to hear Brian, thank you for your lovely message and happy new year!
Jane x
Benjamin Fernandez ‘93 T4 says
I’m curious if anyone has added any extra veggies to the dish? Maybe some rough chopped kale? Looks delicious!
Jane Sarchet says
Add whatever you fancy, and more importantly whatever needs using up! I see 99% of recipes as starting points rather than being written in stone (the exceptions are baking recipes, they can be fussy so I tend to stick to the actual recipe to avoid disaster!
Janie x