Good Campfire Food

If you have any plan to go for camping trip, you should have camping shower, sleeping bag, a tent, thick steel grill and solid tripod. In camping trip, I always serve like a cook though I am not, but I love cooking. I have to get up early in the morning to prepare the breakfast. First, I boil water for making coffee. Second, I put the frying pan on the stove. I fry all the things in the same frying pan like sliced onions, bacon and sausages. Then I add the eggs in the same frying pan and breakfast is ready. I get my companions to have their breakfast.

It is the usual thing that I have shared with you however I have a new thing to tell you. In every camping trip, I love to repeat it. I learned it when I visited South Africa. To cook this special campfire food, they use three legged pot. They call it potjie pot that is best for cooking that food. Its function is like slow cooker.  You should put all the things in it and lit a slow fire under it. If you put it in the morning, you can have it in the afternoon or evening. It is very delicious and good in flavor. I am sharing with you the recipe of potjie pot. You can also try and enjoy it.

2 tbs food oil

14 lamb (neck chops)

2 large onions (chopped)

250g bacon (diced)

1 small cabbage (cut in 8 pieces)

16 small potatoes (peeled and quartered)

Lemon juice

 Salt and black pepper

500ml water

Mixed herbs

Process of cooking

• Pour the oil in potjie and heat it. Fry the lamb chops, onions and bacons in heated oil. Keep on stirring it. When it is fried, cover it for 40-45 minutes.

• Add potatoes after 45 minutes and stir it. 

• Add herbs, lemon juice and water but do not stir it.

• Cover the pot again for 3-5 hours on slow coals.

• Eat it with brown rice.