January 27th, 2012 | 
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Dutch Oven cooking is fun and easy. Dutch oven recipes are plentiful and adjusting them from your bestloved home recipes is easy. With a little experience you’ll find that it is somewhat simple to cook with your Dutch oven. Here are galore easy Dutch oven recipes to try: Easy Dutch Oven Mountain Man Hash 1 lb. Bacon or sausage 2 lbs frozen potatoes (shredded or southern style) 1 dozen eggs 2 cups shredded cheddar cheese Cut bacon/sausage into littler pieces (about 1″). Cook the bacon or sausage in the Dutch oven. Add potatoes, cover with lid with coals on top. Cook until potatoes are done, stirring occasionally. Mix eggs together in a bowl and pour on top of potatoes. Replace lid with coals on top and cook until eggs are done (shouldn’t need a long time if the lid is hot). When eggs are done, sprinkle cheese on top, replace lid and bake until cheese is melted. Serve as is, or wrap spoonfuls in warmed flour tortillas to make breakfast burritos (provide salsa). Easy Dutch Oven Taco Pie 1 ½ lbs. Ground beef 1 medium jar of taco sauce 6 huge corn tortillas 8 oz shredded cheddar cheese 8 oz may of tomato sauce Brown the ground beef and drain it. Mix the taco sauce and tomato sauce. Line the Dutch oven with tin foil and put 3 tortillas in the bottom. Put ½ of the ground beef on the tortillas and cover with ½ of the sauce. Put 3 more tortilla shells on top, and put the remaining ground beef and sauce on top of those tortillas. Sprinkle the cheese on top. Cover the Dutch oven, place a few coals on top, and bake until the cheese is melted. You could likewise add onions, olives, mushrooms for a heap of variety. Easy Dutch Oven Au Gratin Potatoes 8-10 potatoes, sliced thin 2-3 Tbsp. Melted butter or margarine 2-3 medium onions, sliced thin 15 oz may of cheese soup ¼ cup milk ½ cup cracker or bread crumbs 1 cup shredded cheese Put a little oil in the bottom of the Dutch oven. Put a layer of potatoes in the bottom and brush with the melted butter. Season with salt and pepper, if desired. Add a layer of sliced onions. Continue the layering with potatoes and onions as described until all have been used. Mix the soup with the milk and pour over the top. Sprinkle the top with the bread or cracker crumbs. Add any further and added desired seasonings. Put Dutch oven over 6-8 briquets and 16-18 briquets on top. Bake for 45 minutes. Remove and sprinkle the top with the shredded cheese. Replace lid and let the cheese melt-shouldn’t take long. Easy Dutch Oven Cowboy Stew 4 potatoes, cut into 1 inch pieces 1 lb ground beef 1 medium onion, diced 1 may of corn 1 may of peas 1 may of stewed tomatoes 1 may of green beans 1 may of baked beans 1 may of tomato soup Bay leaf Brown ground beef and onions. Add all other ingredients (don’t drain the cans). Add bay leaf and any other desired seasonings, such as salt and pepper. Cook until the potatoes are done. Easy Dutch Oven Cinnamon Bread 4 cans of refrigerated tube biscuits 1 cup of brown sugar 1/2 cup butter or margarine 1 cup of sugar 4 tsp cinnamon Cut each biscuit into 4 pieces. Mix the sugar, brown sugar, and cinnamon in a zip-lock bag. Put the biscuit quarters in the bag and shake until they are all well-coated. Place the biscuit pieces in the bottom of the Dutch oven. Melt the butter and then pour over the biscuit quarters (you may do this with another pan, or you may use the inverted lid of the Dutch oven to melt the butter). Put 6-8 coals under Dutch oven and 14-15 on top. Bake for 30 minutes. Each of these is a quick and easy Dutch oven recipe and will help you get started with Dutch oven cooking. Have fun!
Most helpful customer reviews 40 of 40 people found the following review helpful. You can leave it on the lid and it stays in place. The handle is long enough that the heat doesn’t seem to travel up and make it too hot to hold. The “wings” adjacent to the hook brace on the lid so when you pick the lid up it doesn’t wobble or tilt (which is when the ashes would drop on your food!). The hook also works well to grab the scalding hot bail of the Dutch Oven to carry or reposition the whole oven. For even cooking the standard practice is to rotate the oven one way and the lid the other way every once in a while- that way any hot spots from the coals will spread around. This tool lets you safely do both. Also you don’t really have to lift the lid to rotate it- which would let heat out. 29 of 29 people found the following review helpful. 28 of 29 people found the following review helpful. They don’t grip the lid firmly like the good lifters (with the three legs and the hook operated by gripping the handle). The good lid lifters retail for about the same price as this lifter. There’s no reason to buy this design. They will will put a huge smile on your face the first time you discover you don’t have to do any kind of balancing act. I’ve been looking on Amazon, but for some odd reason it looks like they don’t carry the good lid lifters, which are available at any outdoors store that carries dutch ovens. Please Amazon, offer the three-leg+hook lifters, sometimes called “deluxe” lifters! |
One more gadget but worth it.
Poor design considering alternatives for the same price
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