Category: Dinner

• 2 boxes of Zatarain’s Jambalaya Mix or Red Beans & Rice mix 
• 5 cups water 
• ¼ stick butter 
• ½ cup sliced green onions (optional) 
• 1 lb boneless chicken breasts 
• 1 lb smoked sausage or ham 
• ½ lb small or medium-size cooked peeled shrimp (optional) 
• Tabasco sauce

Boil chicken breasts in water until white and cooked through.  Remove chicken, save water and add the rice mixes and butter; return to a boil, let boil for one minute, then reduce heat to low and cover.   Simmer for 15 minutes and stir occasionally.  Meanwhile, dice chicken and sausage.  If also using shrimp, soak them in a bowl of cold water to thaw.  When the rice mix starts to thicken, add the chicken, sausage, shrimp, and onions.  Simmer for 10 more minutes, stirring occasionally.  Say “oooWEEE!” as you add a dash of Tabasco.

Ingredients:

1 box Pizza dough mix
1 can pizza sauce
1/2lb mozzarella cheese
1/2lb pepperoni
1 aluminum pie tin

Notes:

main course

Instructions:

Prepare the pizza dough per mix directions.
Spread dough inside pie tin and up the sides.
Top with sauce, cheese, pepperoni.
Place 4 pebbles or wads of aluminum foil in dutch oven to raise pie tin off bottom.
Set pizza in dutch oven.
Bake at 375 degrees for about 20 minutes.

Serves 2 or 3.

Ingredients:

1 lb. ground beef
1 onion
3 potatoes
(all cans are about 15 oz.)
1 can green beans
1 can baked beans
1 can black beans
1 can tomato soup
1 can corn
1 can diced tomatoes
1 tsp Chili powder
1 tsp cayenne pepper
Salt and pepper

Notes:

main course

Instructions:

Cut potatoes into 1 inch cubes.
Dice onion.
Place dutch oven over 375 degree heat for Frying.
Brown ground beef and onion.
Add potatoes and contents of all cans, undrained.
Fill one can about half full of water and pour it between all cans to clean them out. Pour the water into the dutch oven.
Add spices (more or less if you like bland or spicy)
Reduce heat to about 225 degrees.
Simmer until potatoes are soft (about 45 minutes), stirring every 5 or 10 minutes.

Serves about 8.

All dutch oven recipes use a 12-inch dutch oven, unless specified. If you have a 10-inch dutch oven, use about 2/3 to 3/4 of the ingredient amounts but keep the temperature and time about the same.
If no temperature is listed, use 350 degrees.
See Heat Settings page for temperature and coal placement
for Frying, Stewing, Roasting, Baking, and Simmering.

Ingredients:

1 lb hamburger
1 onion, chopped
2 cans of Ro-Tel diced tomatoes with chilies, undrained
1 1/2 cup elbow macaroni or other fun shapes
1 cup water
1/2 cup cheddar cheese, shredded

Notes:

main course

Instructions:

Heat dutch oven** to 375 degrees for Frying.
Put in hamburger and onion.
Fry uncovered until hamburger is well browned, stirring often.
Stir in tomatoes, water, and pasta.
Bring to a boil.
Reduce heat to about 225 degrees, cover, and Simmer for 20 minutes or until pasta is tender.
Sprinkle cheese on each bowl when it is served.
Serves about 4 to 6.

** All dutch oven recipes use a 12-inch dutch oven, unless specified. If you have a 10-inch dutch oven, use about 2/3 to 3/4 of the ingredient amounts but keep the temperature and time about the same.
If no temperature is listed, use 350 degrees.
See Heat Settings page for temperature and coal placement
for Frying, Stewing, Roasting, Baking, and Simmering.