Stuffed Pumpkin Camping meal; different, tasty and simple
Want a simple, different and surprisingly tasty camping meal to try? This Stuffed Pumpkin camping meal is a ripper.
We are always on the lookout for new camping meals, and having a Baby Weber Q has opened up our options for camp cooking dramatically.
We really enjoy cooking on an open flame too though, and have tried a heap of different recipes. Not so long ago, Sarah found an awesome recipe that we had to try; stuffed pumpkin!
It’s a simple, easy camping meal and tastes great.
Ingredients
Please consider the size of your pumpkin, as a smaller pumpkin will not need this level of quantity!
1 pumpkin that will fit in your weber or camp oven
Bacon
Potato
Cheese (2 cups of grated)
Butter (60 grams)
Plain flour (1/4 cup)
Milk (2 1/3 cups)
Method
Cut the top of the pumpkin off
Scoop the seeds and soft part of the pumpkin out
Peel several potatoes’ and slice them into thin pieces
Cut bacon up into small chunks
Add cheese, bacon, milk, flour, butter and potato into a mixture and add it into the centre of the pumpkin
Drop the pumpkin into your camp oven on medium heat for around 60 – 120 minutes, checking on it regularly. We did remove it too early, and found it wasn’t cooked so had to put it back on the fire for a while.
When its cooked, the pumpkin will be soft. Cut up as you please, or eat it straight out of the pumpkin. Beware that the pumpkin will be full of juices, so we found cutting it up in a stainless bowl worked pretty well.
This stuffed pumpkin recipe is fantastic for camping; its so quick and easy to get going, and its something a bit different from the norm. It’s also reasonably healthy, which is a great thing.
If you were doing a big group cooking meal, this would be the ultimate side, or you can have it as a main meal for the family.