30 Exciting Camping Recipes for Dinner Around the Campfire

Recipe: Foil Packet Red Beans and Rice

This comfort dish just got a travel-friendly makeover. You won't be sorry showing up with these prepped and ready to warm back up. 

Recipe: Fried Chicken Sliders with Pimiento Cheese

Make a classic pimiento cheese sandwich even more satisfying by stuffing it with store-bought fried chicken tenders. Prep the pimiento cheese spread beforehand and assemble the sandwiches on-site for a quick meal.

Recipe: Brined Grilled Chicken with Dipping Sauces

This grilled chicken gets a ton of flavor from the brine, made with herbs, garlic, brown sugar, and chiles.

Recipe: Ranch Turkey Burgers

Something about ranch just feels like summertime, and these burgers definitely master the ranch-flavored zing.

Recipe: Cowboy Pasta Salad

Inspired by our beloved Cowboy Casserole, this recipe uses taco-inspired ingredients such as black beans, corn, cheese, jalapeños, cilantro, and ground beef to create a filling pasta salad to make and take.

Recipe: Vera Stewart's Mama's Egg Salad

Prep these classic Southern sandwiches ahead of time and store in a cooler for whenever you need a quick bite to eat. 

Recipe: Sweet-and-Salty Snack Mix

This mix will satisfy everyone's craving for something sweet and salty. It's packed with cereal, bite-size pretzels, candy-coated peanut-butter candies, mini marshmallows, and a yummy butter mixture that includes brown sugar and honey. 

Recipe: Magic Cookie Bars

These retro bar cookies always please the crowd. One Test Kitchen Professional described them perfectly: “gooey, slightly crunchy, and melt-in-your-mouth, chocolate-coconut heaven.” 

Recipe: Steak-and-Potato Kebabs

Steak and potatoes—it's as no-fuss as it gets. These kebabs go from backyard barbecue to campfire grill without missing a beat.

Recipe: Sweet Heat Hot Dogs

Upgrade your basic campfire hotdogs with sweet-hot pickles, shredded red cabbage, and a creamy topping made of mayo, whole grain mustard, and hot chili sauce.

Recipe: No-Bake Granola Bars

These bars will double as a post-hike snack and post-dinner sweet.

Recipe: Lemon-Basil Chicken Breast Foil Packets

The steam and juices from the chicken, lemon, tomatoes, and butter make for a tender pasta supper that will fill up all the bellies.

Recipe: Frito Pie

Any Texan knows that this recipe will feel right at home on the campgrounds. The corn chip-laden dish will be even easier to serve if the chili is made ahead, then reheated and assembled into its Frito pie form over the fire.

Recipe: Puppy Chow Snack Mix

Odds are you've enjoyed this sweet, powder sugar-covered delicacy before, and it's a great option to bring as a huge batch. 

Recipe: Ham-Stuffed Biscuits With Mustard Butter

These mini sandwiches are simple but wonderfully tasty. Instead of baking, wrap them in tin foil and throw them over the fire.

Recipe: Cranberry Chicken Salad

This spread will see you through when you need a packable dinner that can be kept at the ready in a cooler bag. We dressed up the grocery-store staple with celery, sweet pickle relish, chives, parsley, and seasonal favorite dried cranberries.

Recipe: Lemon-Herb Chicken Kebabs

Just look at that char, folks. Using chicken thighs will make sure these kebabs don't dry out as quickly.

Recipe: S'mores Pie

Enjoy this old-school camping treat in a whole new way that can be prepped ahead and brought along to serve up later.

Recipe: Bacon Ranch Pasta Salad

This bacon-and-tomato pasta salad is already a crowd-pleaser, but you can make it extra inviting by serving in small Mason jars—which are easily portable! 

Recipe: Cast-Iron Cowboy Steak

You can't beat the cast-iron crust that this recipe gives to tender steak. It's the ultimate camping meal.

Recipe: Skillet Charred Beans

These soup beans feel wonderfully nostalgic as is, but we really kicked up the flavor with jalapeño chiles and thick-cut bacon.

Recipe: Potato Chip Cookies

Another salty-sweet favorite that will satisfy everyone's post-dinner cravings, these classic chocolate cookies get a salty crunch from crushed potato chips.

Recipe: Oatmeal-Caramel Cream Pies

This old-fashioned childhood favorite just got even more scrumptious with a surprising salty-sweet caramel filling.

Recipe: Potato-Bacon Hash

This side will always be welcome around our campfire. The skillet is packed with russet potatoes, bell peppers, onions, and thick-cut bacon.

Recipe: Sloppy Joe Carolina-Style Burgers

This recipe combines two camp meal favorites: Sloppy Joes and burgers. And the crowd will go wild.

Recipe: Ham and Dijon Grilled Cheese

No one will turn down a hearty grilled cheese with ham and Dijon mustard after a full day of outdoor activities.

Recipe: Grilled Peach Cobbler

We prefer not to give up our favorite summer cobbler, even for the camping weekend. Turns out, the cast-iron skillet might make it better.

Recipe: Top-Shelf Chicken Under a Brick

This juicy brick chicken recipe will win the camp crowd over, easy. Crispy chicken and cast-iron skillet potatoes work together in perfect harmony.

Recipe: Grilled Pork Meatball Kebabs

These easy grilled kebabs master a balance of sweet and heat, just how we like it.

Recipe: Ginger-Plum Slump

A slump is essentially a cast-iron skillet of simmered fruit topped with pillowy, lightly sweet dumplings—which makes it perfect for using a grill or campfire instead of an oven.