Camp Cooking 101: Dutch Oven Breakfast

How to Cook with a Dutch Oven

Ingredients

Dutch Oven (cast iron, at least 6 qts.)
Two tubes of your favorite breakfast sausage
One bag frozen hash browns
Bell peppers (3 or 4, any color you wish)
One dozen eggs
One bag shredded cheese
One tube biscuit dough

 

Step One: Brown the sausage but not completely to prevent over-cooking (do this in preferably another cast iron pan that you have over the fire that you have built. (If you need to know how to build a fire, I haven't covered that here yet, but it will be discussed).

Step Two: Place the sausage in the bottom of your dutch oven and then dump the hash browns on top of that, place the peppers (that you previously have cut up) on top of the hash browns, crack a dozen eggs on top of that (the yolks can break that's fine) dump the bag of cheese on top of that and spread evenly.

Step Three: This is the part where you place the dutch oven directly into the coals of the fire that you lit about an hour or so ago so it could burn down to hot coals. Scrape the bottom coals away as best as possible and when the dutch oven is placed in the fire pit, stack coals around the oven and on top of the lid. Let it sit and cook in the coals for at least half an hour.

Step Four: Remove the lid and place biscuits on the top, replace the lid and the coals on top, and let sit there for another 10 minutes or so, and when it is done, it should look something like this.