This is one of our Dutch oven camping recipes that tastes gourmet but is super simple to make at the campsite!
The combination of curry and coconut milk make this camp oven chicken curry taste amazing without requiring a lot of work!
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How To Make This Camping Chicken Curry Recipe
When you are planning to make this campfire curry meal, you’ll want to have EVERYTHING prepped before you start cooking because the beginning steps of this recipe happen quickly and you don’t want to “stop the cooking” because you don’t have your ingredients chopped and organized.
Step 1. Prepare your ingredients.
You’ll need to peel and cut the potatoes and carrots, chop the onion, mince the garlic and slice the chicken first.
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Step 2. Set up your cooking equipment.
If you are making this as one of our campfire recipes, you’ll need to get your fire going in order to cook over coals (not flames) … you can also use charcoal briquettes.
If you want to use charcoal briquettes, get them started … you are just frying and simmering this camping curry recipe so you don’t need an exact number of briquettes.
If you are making this as one of our camp stove recipes get your stove ready for cooking on a level surface.
Step 3. Pre-heat the Dutch oven.
As with most of our camping dinner recipes, you’ll be using a 12 inch Dutch oven to cook this meal.
You’ll start with high heat and eventually bring it down to a medium heat.
Step 4. Heat the oil and stir fry.
As soon as the Dutch oven is hot you are going to add the oil to it.
Let the oil heat up a bit then add the curry paste and curry powder.
You’ll need to stir those ingredients as they stir fry over high heat for about 1 minute.
Step 5. Add the chicken and veggies.
Now it is time to add the onion, chicken, potatoes, carrots, and garlic.
Keep stirring the mixture until the chicken is slightly browned … this will take about 15 minutes.
Step 6. Add the coconut milk.
Once the chicken is slightly browned, you are going to pour the coconut milk into the pot.
You’ll leave the heat on high so you can bring the mixture to a boil.
Step 7. Reduce the heat and cook.
Now it is time to let this yummy campfire chicken curry simmer over a medium heat until the chicken is done and the potatoes are tender … about 30 – 40 minutes.
Camp Cooking Tip: If you are cooking over a campfire or with charcoal briquettes, to reduce the heat just remove some of the coals away from the Dutch oven. If the pot is still boiling, remove the Dutch oven from the heat source entirely until the cooking slows … then … add it back to the coals to continue cooking at a simmer.
Step 8. Prepare for serving.
While the pot is simmering, you can cook (or reheat it if you cooked it ahead of time) the rice and prepare the optional toppings.
Step 9. Top and serve.
You’ll be serving this Dutch oven chicken curry over rice.
For people who like their Thai food with a little extra heat, add red pepper flakes.
Fresh cilantro is a great topping too!
You May Also Like
If you like this meal, you’ll also want to try our yummy Dutch oven Thai campfire chicken recipe that uses peanut butter as its secret ingredient!
And, it is one of our make ahead camping meals that you just “dump and cook” when you get to the campsite!
Both of these make awesome winter camping recipes that will keep you warm when you are camping in the cold!
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Yield: 6 Servings
Camp Oven Chicken Curry Camping Recipe
Camping For Foodies Dinner Camping Recipes: Camp Oven Chicken Curry Camping Recipe
20 minutes
45 minutes
1 hour 5 minutes
Ingredients
- 1/4 cup olive oil
- 4oz jar red curry paste
- 2 teaspoons curry powder
- 1.5 – 2 pounds boneless, skinless chicken breasts, sliced
- 2 potatoes, peeled and cut into 1 – 2 inch cubes
- 2 carrots, peeled and cut into matchstick size pieces
- 1 small onion, chopped
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- 2 14oz cans coconut milk
- Salt and pepper, to taste
- Fresh cilantro, to taste (optional)
- Red pepper flakes, to taste (optional)
- 6 servings of cooked rice
Instructions
- Pre-heat 12-inch Dutch oven for cooking over high heat. You can cook this recipe using heat from a campfire, charcoal briquettes or a camp stove.
- Heat the oil in the pre-heated pot.
- Add the curry paste and curry powder, stir fry over high heat for about 1 minute.
- Add the onions, chicken, potatoes, carrots, and garlic, stirring between each addition. Cook until the chicken is slightly browned which will take about 15 minutes.
- Add the coconut milk stirring and bringing the mixture to a boil.
- Reduce the heat to medium and simmer, cook covered until the potatoes are done which will take about 30 – 40 minutes. Camp Cooking Tip: If you are cooking over a campfire or with charcoal briquettes, to reduce the heat just remove some of the coals away from the Dutch oven. If the pot is still boiling, remove the Dutch oven from the heat source entirely until the cooking slows … then … add it back to the coals to continue cooking at a simmer.
- Serve over cooked rice and top with fresh cilantro and red pepper flakes, if desired.
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Nutrition Information:
Yield:
6
Serving Size:
1
Amount Per Serving:
Calories: 884Total Fat: 43gSaturated Fat: 28gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 13gCholesterol: 129mgSodium: 613mgCarbohydrates: 68gFiber: 4gSugar: 2gProtein: 56g
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