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Cajun Chicken Foil Packets: Quick 30-Minute Chicken Dinner

February 26, 2023

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These Cajun Chicken Foil Packets are quick, scrumptious and moist! If you’re searching for simple and wholesome campfire meals in foil, you’re in the precise place!

Cajun Chicken Foil Packets by CampingForFoodies features a silver-colored piece of tinfoil used as a bowl to hold a serving of Cajun chicken. The pieces of white cauliflower, green broccoli, red bell pepper and white onion slices compliment the chicken and andouille sausage pieces. A serving of white rice is behind the food and the foil packet is set on a blue camping plate with green shrubbery in the background. — Cajun Chicken Foil Packets by CampingForFoodies

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Recipe Prep

When you’re making wholesome foil packet meals, you’ll be chopping a number of veggies. You can do the prep proper on the campsite, or, you are able to do the entire work from home which makes wholesome foil pack recipes probably the most simple tenting meals, ever!

If you wish to prep prematurely:

At residence: You’ll be cubing hen breasts, mincing garlic, slicing onion and andouille sausage and chopping broccoli, cauliflower and purple bell pepper. Store the ready substances in sealed meals storage containers within the fridge.
At camp: Build the packets, seal foil and cook dinner.

Cooking Methods & Equipment

You’ll want heavy-duty aluminum foil to make the foil packets.

Camp Cooking Tip: Whichever cooking technique you employ, be sure to have sufficient floor space to cook dinner the variety of tin foil pack dinners you’ll be serving. If you’ve got too many Cajun hen and veggie foil packets to your cooking floor, plan to cook dinner them in batches.

Prepare for cooking with medium-high warmth. Hold the palm of your hand about 5 inches above the warmth supply and draw back earlier than it hurts, about 4 seconds signifies medium-high warmth.

If you’re making this as certainly one of our simple campfire recipes, get your fireplace going early to generate good coals beneath your cooking grate for cooking over medium-high warmth.

To make this as certainly one of our simple grilling recipes for tenting, put together you charcoal or propane grill for cooking over medium-high warmth.

For RV, camp or typical ovens, put together for cooking these tinfoil packs on a cooking sheet at 400 F levels.

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Recipe Steps

Step 1. Prepare your substances, warmth supply and gear as directed.

Step 2. Cut heavy-duty foil sheets. Make them roughly 24 inch lengthy rectangles (in case you are utilizing common foil, you want two sheets per packet as a substitute of 1).

Step 3. Pile substances in middle of foil. Evenly divide the substances and pile them (within the order of the ingredient listing) within the middle of every piece of foil.

Step 4. Seal foil and cook dinner. Fold foil and seal it tightly for cooking. Place the packs on the grate or cookie sheet, seam aspect up. Cook packets till hen is cooked by and greens are tender, about 20-25 minutes, (there may be no must flip the packets).

Step 5. Open and serve. Carefully open the foil, don’t burn your self on the new steam. You can eat instantly from these keto hen foil packets or spoon the combination onto a plate.

Variations

Another low-carb dinner possibility is to make shrimp packets with Cajun spices. Just substitute the hen with jumbo peeled and deveined shrimp and scale back the cooking time to 15-20 minutes.

What To Serve With This Recipe

This is certainly one of my favourite low carb hen and vegetable recipes. To make it extra substantial, add a serving of riced cauliflower on the aspect. Get extra keto tenting meals concepts to your subsequent journey.

Almost all rice is gluten free, so including a serving of rice is a superb choice to make this meal extra hearty whereas remaining a gluten free tenting meals.

Scaling Servings

Foil packs make nice tenting meals for 2. You can regulate the variety of servings within the recipe card and it’ll routinely regulate the ingredient portions for you.

If you’re searching for simple tenting meals for giant teams, you’re in the precise place. Foil packs don’t create a multitude with tons of pots, so, clear up is very easy. Just set out the substances on a desk and begin an meeting line to organize the packets, or, simply let every camper construct their very own.

Leftovers

Refrigerate leftovers in an hermetic container for as much as 2 days. They’re nice reheated and served over a little bit pasta tossed in garlic butter.

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