Perfect Campfire Recipes For Your Next Fishing Trip

Heading on a fishing trip? Put your catch — and your beer — to good use with these seafood-inspired campfire recipes

Campfire Chowder

TOTAL TIME: 40 minutes

Serves: 4

Ingredients:

• ½ onion, finely chopped
• 1 garlic clove, finely chopped
• 2 rashers bacon, chopped
• 2 medium potatoes, diced
• 1 bay leaf
• ½ tsp dried thyme
• 300ml fish stock
• 1 small tin garden peas
• 300ml skim milk
• 125ml double cream
• 400g mixed fish fillets
• 150g King prawns
• Salt and pepper, to taste
• 2 tbsp parsley

Method:

1. Prepare your fire for a low heat.
2. Fry onion and garlic in a little butter in your camp oven. Once translucent, add the bacon and cook for a further five minutes or until crisp.
3. Add the potatoes, bay leaf, and thyme, frying for a minute, then add the stock and cover.
4. Bring to the boil until potatoes are cooked, which will take around 20 minutes.
5. Once the potatoes are cooked, add the peas, milk, cream, and bring to a simmer.
6. Move to a cooler part of the fire and add the fish and stir through. Once just cooked, add prawns, and cook for 2 minutes and set aside.
7. Add salt, pepper, and stir through chopped parsley to serve.

Cajun prawn foil packets

TOTAL TIME: 40 minutes

Serves: 4

Ingredients:

• 500g small red or gold potatoes, cut into 5cm cubes
• 2 ears of corn on the cob, husked, cleaned, and cut into small pieces
• 500g raw prawns, peeled, and deveined with tails on
• 300g smoked sausage, sliced into 5cm long pieces
• 4 tbsp butter
• 1 tbsp minced garlic
• 1 tsp salt
• 1 tsp cajun seasoning
• 4 large pieces of aluminium foil
• Chopped parsley and lemon wedges, for garnishing

Method:

1. Prepare your fire for a high heat with a hot plate.
2. Place potatoes and corn in a saucepan with two litres of water and bring to the boil. Simmer for 10 minutes then strain. Set aside.
3. Prepare 30 x 30cm aluminium foil sheets and fold in half, forming a square.
4. In a large bowl combine potatoes, corn, prawns, sausage, butter, garlic, salt, and cajun seasoning. Mix well to coat all ingredients.
5. Divide the prawn mix onto foil sheets and neatly fold over foil into packets, sealing up the sides.
6. Cook on the hot plate for 15 minutes and flip over after about eight minutes.
7. Open packets slightly and garnish with parsley and lemon wedges.

Beer and blueberry pancakes

TOTAL TIME: 30 minutes

Serves: 16

Ingredients:

• 3 ? cup all-purpose flour
• ½ cup toasted pine nuts
• 2 cups beer (any pale lager)
• 2 large free range eggs
• ¼ cup vegetable oil, more for cooking
• Butter, maple syrup, blueberries, to serve

Method:

1. Combine the flour and nuts in a large bowl.
2. Make a well in the centre and add beer, eggs and oil.
3. Mix the dry and wet ingredients together, but don’t overmix as this will make the pancakes tough.
4. Heat a cast iron skillet over a medium heat and add oil to the pan.
5. Ladle about ¼ of the batter into the skillet for each pancake. Cook until pancakes rise slightly and form bubbles on top, about 3 to 4 minutes. Then flip and cook on the other side until brown.
6. Serve with butter, maple syrup and blueberries.

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