Wild camping stew recipe

The type of food I like to prepare when I go camping depends entirely on the type of camping I do. If I’m camping in a car or RV, I like to prepare more elaborate meals. For backpacking, bike camping or boat camping, I love easy and delicious meals.

Desert soup is the perfect camping meal to prepare and enjoy on any kind of camping trip. You can bring in and prepare ingredients on the spot, prep and freeze them, or even dry and reconstitute ingredients in the field.

Why Wild Stew is perfect for camping

Desert Soup is packed with all kinds of perks for hard-working campers, like hiking, kayaking, or biking all day.

First of all, beef is full of protein and fat and is a high-calorie food. Everything you will need after a hard day.

Desert soup is also full of great vegetables. Beans (I consider them vegetables for simplicity), sweet peppers, onions, and tomatoes are packed with fiber, protein, minerals, vitamins, and carbohydrates.

Potatoes also have health benefits, but more than anything else, they are filling and help the soup feed more people.

Finally, salting at will is really important when your body is working hard. Keeping sodium in your diet is essential when you’re working hard. When you sweat, your body loses sodium, and retaining sodium in your body helps you rehydrate better, prevents cramps, and works better overall. So feel free to add salt when you’re working hard.

How to prepare the recipe

Ingredients:

• 1 pound minced meat
• 1 can of beans
• 1 can of black beans
• 2 sweet potatoes, cut into cubes
• 1 red pepper cut into cubes
• 1 green pepper, cut into cubes
• 1 chopped onion
• 5 chopped tomatoes or 1 can of tomatoes
• 2 cups of water (16 ounces)
• salt to taste

directions:

1. Begin browning the meat in a large saucepan over medium heat.
2. Once the meat begins to turn brown, add 2 cups of water (16 ounces), diced potatoes, sweet peppers, onions, and tomatoes.
3. Bring the mixture to a boil and simmer for 10 minutes.
4. Add black beans and kidney beans, bring to a boil and simmer for another 1-2 minutes, salting to taste.
5. Let it cool and enjoy.

Packaging options

While you can bring the ingredients and make a wild stew during your flight, the real beauty of this recipe is that it is very easy to prepare in advance and easily enjoyed anywhere.

Make it ahead of time and freeze it

If you’re planning a car camping trip, or a trip where you might need to hike, making wild stew beforehand and freezing it to a solid block is a great option.

Prepare it in advance and put it in a bowl for each meal you plan to eat for it. This will have the added benefit of keeping the coolant longer.

Simply place a frozen stew block in a Dutch oven over the heat, or put it in a saucepan on your favorite camping stove and let it come to a boil.

dehydration and reconstitution

Drying wild stew is more complicated, but it’s a great option if you need to pack light and keep food cold and fresh isn’t an option.

Drying vegetables (onions, peppers, potatoes, tomatoes) is very easy. Simply cut everything into cubes and place the vegetables on drying trays, turn the heat to medium, and dry them for about 8 hours until completely dry. Check out this post for more information on drying tomatoes.

Beans are easy to dry. However, you should avoid buying dried beans from the store. These take a long time to reconfigure and will cause the fuel to burn out. To make dry beans hydrate quickly, take canned beans, rinse them and put them in your dryer for 8 hours.

Finally, to dry beef, simply cook it at home and put it in the dryer for 8 hours. You will read online that you need to get lean beef like 93/7 or else the fat will spoil the meat. This is true, but there is more. If you plan to store your beef jerky for an extended period of time, then yes, you should do everything in your power to make it last. But I personally make my camping meals a week before I go camping, so my private life for months isn’t usually necessary.

Once everything is dry, put it in a ziplock bag and pack it into your food bag. You can also add a teaspoon of salt to the bag to keep it really simple or just keep in the field.

When it’s time to rehydrate your food, simply take 1 cup of dried stews, add as much water as you want (usually 1 cup of stews to 2 cups of water), boil for 8-10 minutes until everything is soft and enjoy. .

Perfect side dishes

When I’m in the country I don’t worry too much about the side dishes, I usually make a main course and something sweet to the end. But dried bread is amazing to dip into this soup😉

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