How to make Dutch oven stir fry over a campfire

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By happycamper
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Why settle for hotdogs while camping? Try making this recipe for stir-fry vegetables over rice in the great outdoors. You'll love it. Using a Dutch oven as your wok, you can create this incredible dish that is so out of the ordinary when camping.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

Dutch oven
Long handled spatula
Heat resistant glove
Medium cooking pot with lid
Grate or rack over the fire.
3 Tbs. + 1 tsp. Vegetable Oil
1 tsp. Salt
1 c. long grain rice
2 c. water
2 tsp. Sesame Oil
Soy Sauce
1 ½ c. Broccoli, cut up
½ c. Carrots, sliced
3 Celery stalks, sliced
1 Yellow Onion, sliced
½ of a Green Pepper, seeded and chopped

Step 1

Let a nice roaring fire burn down to coals and spread the coals evenly under your grate. Add a few more pieces of wood over half of the coals for active flame.
Step 2

How-to-cook-rice in a medium pan add 1 cup of white long grain rice, 2 cups of water, 1 tsp. Salt and 1 tsp. Vegetable oil and place over flames and bring to a boil. Remove from flames and cover with lid.
Step 3

Cooked rice

Place the pot on cooler end of the grate and let sit for ten minutes. Stir the rice. It should be mushy with moisture, but not burning on the bottom. Replace lid and check again in 5 minutes. Rice is done when moisture is soaked up and rice is not crunchy.
Step 4

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While the rice is steaming on the cooler end of your grate, place an empty Dutch oven over flames to heat up. Let heat for a couple of minutes and pour in 3 Tbs. Vegetable oil. Pour all of the chopped vegetables in at once and stir with a long handled spatula.
Step 5

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Make sure a good amount of flames keep the Dutch oven hot. Add 2 tsp. Sesame Oil and a few splashes of Soy Sauce into the Dutch oven as you cook. Add more or less Soy Sauce to your own liking. Serve over hot rice and enjoy an unusual camping treat.