Nachos and Rice Cooking Instructions

 

Trek Ma & Pa Dutch Oven Cooking Help Handout

You will be making rice in one dutch oven and cooking the hamburger in the other for nachos.

1.                           Start the briquettes first.

a.      Fill the charcoal chimney. You will need to place paper under to bottom. (Tare off part of the top of the briquette bag). Place under and light it.

b.      It will take about 20 minutes or so be til all are white looking and ready to go.

c.       You might not use all the briquettes and that is okay

Cooking the Rice.

a.      Place 8 cups of water in the dutch.

b.      Place 18 briquette on the ground in a circle the size of your dutch oven. Note: this is for a 12” dutch oven if you have a 14” or 16” add 2 briquette for each extra inch.

c.       Place dutch oven over them.

d.      Place lid on and add 18 briquettes circling the outer rim of the lid.

e.      After 10 minutes or so the water should be hot enough to add 4 cups of rice and the salt.

f.       Remove lid and stir as needed.(about every 5 minutes)

g.      Cook until done (about 25 minutes) and then remove from heat. Stir time to time. It will stay hot for a while…

Nachos

a.      While the water is getting hot for the rice start getting the second dutch oven going.

b.      Place 12 briquettes on the ground the size of the dutch oven. Note: this is for a 12” dutch oven if you have a 14” or 16” add 2 briquette for each extra inch.

c.       Place dutch oven over briquette and add the hamburger.

d.      Place lid on an add 12 briquettes to the lid. Remove lid time to time to stir. Cook until done and drain of grease and remove.

e.      While the ground beef is cooking have the youth cut up the vegetables.

4.                                      Prep for eating

a.      Below are the directions for making the nachos and you might consider the following.

b.      If you have picky eater or youth with allergies  it might be best to serve it buffet style and they can have what they want and skip what they don’t like and you can still make some nachos in the dutch oven per the recipe

How to make this Dutch oven nacho recipe:

This recipe is 4-6 servings and you will most likely have to double or triple the recipe.  The appropriate amount of food will be delivered to you.

Ingredients:

·        1 pound ground beef

·        2 bell peppers, diced

·        1/2 white onion, diced

·        1 large bag nacho chips

·        2 cups cheddar cheese, shredded

·        Sour cream

·        Salsa

·        Taco seasoning

Directions:

1.      Cook the ground beef and drain off fat. Then add 1-2 tsp of taco seasoning per pound.

2.      Cut vegetables up into small size pieces.

3.      Remove cooked ground beef from dutch oven. Then a layer of nacho chips, beef, pepper, onion and cheese in the dutch oven.  We usually have 2-3 layers of nacho ingredients. Optional -Line the dutch oven with parchment paper or foil.  This is makes clean up a breeze!

4.      Place lid on dutch oven and place over fire for 5 -10 minutes or until all of the cheese has melted.  Note: Remove about half the briquettes when melting the cheese.

5.      Serve with salsa and sour cream as desired.