Dutch Oven Chicken with Pasta & Cheese
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Make this incredible Dutch Oven Chicken & Pasta recipe on your next camping trip. This easy recipe can be adapted with your favorite pasta and sauce.

We are happy to share this new recipe with chicken, tomato sauce, pasta, and cheese.

We make our Dutch oven recipes using charcoal briquettes, but you can cook this using hot coats from the campfire. However you prepare this recipe, you are sure to make a delicious meal!

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Category: BBQ & Grilling Dinner Recipes Campfire Meals
Seasons All Winter Autumn Summer Spring
Cuisine Type Italian
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Ingredients

For 8 Serving(s)

Ingredients

1 lbs boneless skinless chicken breasts
2 tbsp butter
2 tbsp olive oil
1 onion
4 cloves garlic, minced
12 oz pasta sauce
12 ox pasta, rigatoni or your favorite
1 cup shredded cheese
1 salt & pepper to taste

Dutch Oven Chicken with Pasta & Cheese Directions

  1. Boil the pasta for half the recommended time to partially cook it. Rinse with cold water and set aside.
  2. Heat up the Dutch oven over coals created by the campfire or over 10-12 prepared charcoal briquettes.
  3. Cut the chicken into large chunks.
  4. Begin cooking the chicken with butter and olive oil in the cast iron pot, stirring often.
  5. After a few minutes add the onion and cook.
  6. Add in the garlic and cook another minute or two.
  7. When the chicken is nearly cooked, add in the pasta sauce and stir, letting is simmer for a few minutes.
  8. Add salt and pepper.
  9. Mix in the half-cooked pasta and the cheese.
  10. Remove the pot from the coals.
  11. Add the lid to the pot and pile the coals or briquettes on top.
  12. Cook for 10 minutes.
  13. Serve and enjoy.

Notes

Start out by heating up your Dutch oven over a campfire. Use coals created by the fire, not active flames.-

Boil your pasta (rigatoni was used in this recipe) until it is half done. Drain and rinse with cold water. This can be done in the cast iron or another pot.- heating a dutch oven over a campfire-

Chop the boneless, skinless chicken breasts into large chunks and cook in the Dutch oven with a mix of butter and olive oil. Stir the chicken so that it cooks evenly.- cooking chicken in dutch oven over a campfire-

Add in the chopped onion and saute for a few minutes.-

Put in the garlic and keep cooking.- chicken and onions in a dutch oven-

Add tomato or pasta sauce.

This can be homemade or store-bought. Carlo used homemade.- tomato sauce for chicken recipe-

Let the pot simmer for a bit, then season with salt and pepper.- tomato sauce simmering with chicken-

Stir the half-cooked pasta and shredded cheese into the pot. pasta and cheese added to dutch oven with the chicken- Pull the pot out of the fire. Put on the lid and add coals on top. Let it cook for approximately 10 minutes.-

Please note: This shows the pot in the fire, but the recipe burned a little on the bottom, so removal is recommended.- How good does that look? Thanks go out to Carlo for sharing this great Dutch Oven Chicken & Pasta recipe with us and you.

Nutrition facts

Per Serving

Kcal: 362 kcal

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