Camping Recipes

Recipes to whet your appetite for local food, created with good wholesome ingredients and a little imagination. Enjoy!

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A young camper helping to cook an alfreco meal A young camper helping to cook an alfreco meal All the family can enjoy cooking outdoors

A traditional English breakfast cooked outdoors A traditional English breakfast cooked outdoors Bacon and eggs, a favourite camping breakfast

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Baked boozy rhubarb

Baked Boozy Rhubarb with strawberries and mint

There’s no reason why you can’t use your barbecue to make pudding too. Cooking fruit over coals or the grill works really well, as the heat caramelises the natural sugars with lip-smacking results.

Baked boozy rhubarb

Beef fajitas

Beef Fajitas

Wraps are a real winner in a camping cook kit. It can turn simple ingredients into a fun meal. But if you're looking for some excitement, then fajitas are great.

Beef fajitas

Church Farm Lamb Chops

Church Farm Lamb Chops and Bulgur Wheat Salad

The Poll Dorset sheep favoured by Kath Best provides very tender and very tasty meat.

Church Farm Lamb Chops

Cooking on a campsite

Cooking on a campsite

Cooking on a campsite is surely the best form of meal-making? All the usual kitchen rules don’t apply – schedules, timings and whizzing gizmos are left behind at home.

Cooking on a campsite

Mackerel with horseradish potatoes

Smoked Mackerel with Horseradish Potatoes

A smoked mackerel lunch is super easy, tasty and is suitably impressive looking to the neighbours on the next pitch.

Mackerel with horseradish potatoes

Pan fried sea bass

Pan Fried Sea Bass With Greens

Sea Bass is a sweet, white textured fish, caught in British waters mainly over the summer and into early autumn. Check it's hand-line caught.

Pan fried sea bass

Simple Tomato Soup

Simple Tomato Soup

Taking pleasure in the simple stuff, whether it’s putting your hands in the earth or cosying up in a tent with your family, really can be very good for the soul, just like Helen Bailey's Simple Tomato Soup

Simple Tomato Soup

Sunshine hash

Sunshine Hash

The restorative comfort of a huge plate of hash seemed to perfectly transfer to a morning on the campsite. You can make them your own, with whatever you have left over from last night’s meal, or what you can get your hands on in the site shop.

Sunshine hash

Vegetable and sausage stew

Spring Meadow Farm Vegetable and Sausage Stew

A one-pot meal is the champion of camp cooking. With a knife, chopping board, a pot and a heat source, you can make a whole series of fabulous feasts.

Vegetable and sausage stew

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And if your recipe is good enough you could win a fantastic prize from Calor or Outwell.

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