A Feast For A King and A Family!
We love Indian Stew because everyone can make their meal how they want it and can be creative with it. Fun to see all the chefs coming up with what they like. Little ones will need help, but older ones will have fun making this meal. Originally when we started eating this it was the basic hamburger meat, onions, carrots, celery and potatoes with ketchup, mustard, salt and worshestire sauce. Now we have expanded to more seasonings and things to add to it.
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Ingredients:
- hamburger meat (raw or cooked, raw gives some good flavoring as it cooks, but cooked is easier to bring)
- carrots (we find baby carrots easiest)
- celery
- potatoes
- onions
- tomatoes
- sweet potatoes
- zucchini
Any other ingredients that you think would be tasty, this is a time for creativity!
This is the fun part, seasoning your stew. You do not need to bring all of these. Bring what you and your family might like. Be creative and experiment.
Seasonings to Add:
- Ketchup
- BBQ sauce
- mustard
- worshestire sauce (I like to use organic since it is soybean based)
- coconut aminos
- salt (we use Real Salt, or any natural sea salt)
- seasoning salt
- garlic powder
- onion powder
- Any other sort of flavoring you might like in your stew (oregano, basil, thyme, italian seasoning, etc.
- water
Directions:
*Start your fire at this time or earlier so that you get some good and hot coals.
1. Put all the ingredients out on the table with aluminum foil, cutting boards, and knives. We like to all do this together at the same time around the table. It is a fun time of talking and being creative together and sharing.
2. Everyone needs to first make an aluminum foil bowl. (We like to take 3 layers of aluminum foil - to make it stronger and hopefully no holes, and it makes it nice when they are taken out of the fire and are very messy you can take a layer off once it cools enough) Make them around 18 inches long and put your fist in the middle and bring the foil up around your fist to make a nice bowl.)
3. Start adding to you bowl. Everyone can cut up the veggies how ever small they want for their own stew. Some like larger pieces and some like them small. Remember that you will not need a lot of one thing. All of the ingredients usually add up to more than you thought that they would and then you have a huge stew.
4. Add the sauces / spices
5. We have found that it works better mixing everything up.
6. Add water to the bottom (maybe 1/2 cup or more depending on how much there is). The water is to stem the food and to help it not to burn in the fire.
7. Fold up the sides to of your bowl to cover it and keep all of the food and juices in. Sometimes it looks like a foil pack, most of the time it looks like some sort of hershey kiss. Everyone does theirs different then you can tell whose is whose.
8. Very carefully add the foil packs to the coals in the fire. While they are cooking have the children collect as many pine needles as they can if you have pine trees around. Put large piles of pine needles on the fire. You will have a bonfire for a few minutes, but it will heat up the foil packs nicely.
9. They will be about done when you start smelling them. Most things cooked in a fire you can tell when they are about done when you start smelling a nice aroma from them. Otherwise, we just take a middle sized one out and open it and test it to see if it is done or not. The main thing is that the meat is cooked enough. Sometime they are perfect, sometimes the potatoes or carrots are still a little cruchy, but it tastes so good anyway. I have ones that I like more than others, but I have not had one that I don’t like. We all like tasting each others to see what different flavors taste like. It is a memorable meal and everyone can have fun.
*Disclaimer: Cooking over the fire is dangerous. We are not liable for any injuries due to making this yummy meal or if anyone were to get sick. We will claim responsibility if it tastes really good! See our full disclaimer page below.
