If you like salmon and are looking for meal ideas while you are camping, here is one for you. It is a recipe for foil pack campfire cooked salmon. A super simple recipe that you cook right in the campfire.
Foil Pack Campfire Cooked Salmon
When you are off enjoying the outdoors and your camping trip, it can sometimes be hard to come up with meal ideas. So be sure to plan ahead so you can make this easy foil pack campfire cooked salmon recipe.
You don’t have to be camping to enjoy this. It would also be a great dinner idea to make in the back yard at home too. Nice way to get the family out of the house even if you are not going camping.
You could also make this on the grill if you did not want to mess with a campfire. That is the great thing about foil packs is they can be cooked just about anywhere.
Other than the ingredients and the foil, the other thing you will need to make this is a meat thermometer.
Yes, you could guess as to when it is done, but I think it is better to be safe than sorry. Don’t want anyone getting sick from undercooked food on their camping trip.
How To Make Foil Pack Campfire Cooked Salmon:
Start with two sheets of foil a few inches larger than the slice of salmon you are cooking. Lay the salmon on one sheet of foil. Add salt, pepper and lemon slices to the top of the salmon.
Put the other sheet of foil over the top of the salmon. Crimp the edges all the way around so that the foil pack is sealed all the way around the salmon.
Add the foil pack to an already hot bed of coals from the campfire. You want it to be a little off to the side of the fire as you do not want to burn it. Be sure to flip it over every 8 minutes or so.
They follow the time/temp in the recipe below to know when it is done.
Looking for more camping recipes to try? Here are a few and some campfire cooking tips.
- Campfire Shrimp Recipe
- Chicken And Veggie Foil Pack Hobo Dinner On The Grill
- Camp Cooking Hacks On Over The Fire Cooking
- How To Build a Campfire
- Campfire Recipes – Recipes For Camping
- Easy Oven Baked Ribs (With Campfire Option)
Foil Pack Campfire Cooked Salmon
Ingredients
- 1 Medium Sized Piece Salmon with skin
- 1 Lemon
- Pinch Salt
- Pinch Black Pepper
Instructions
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Start your campfire and get the wood or coals nice and hot.
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Tear off two pieces of aluminum foil, and lay them on top of each other.
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Take your piece of salmon and lay it in the aluminum foil. Cover with salt and pepper to taste (as much as you want) and then top with sliced pieces of lemon all over the meaty portion of the salmon.
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Then, close up the aluminum foil completely so that there are no holes or leaks.
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Take your foil packet and place in the fire. (We placed it directly on the hot "bed" or coal area.
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This is where you'll need a meat thermometer to check that the salmon is cooked completely.
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Once your foil packet is in the fire, flip it over every 8 minutes or so. It's hard to put a time limit on the time to cook in the fire because all campfire heats are so different.
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We cooked ours for about 25 minutes or so, then tested with our meat thermometer.
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Once our meat thermometer showed above 145 degrees, we knew it was cooked and done.
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