Hobo Dinner Foil Packets
Hobo Dinner Foil Packets take the classic easy dinner and make them even easier. Beef, potatoes carrots, and onions are cooked to perfection in foil packets for easy cooking and cleanup!
If you’ve never had a hobo dinner, then you’re missing out. It combines all the classic meat and potato flavors that we love into a dish that cooks all at once, easily, and is just so darn good!
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❤️ Why You’ll Love This Recipe
With a recipe this simple and delicious, what’s not to love? You’ll have dinner on the table quickly and easily, and you can even make this when camping. You will be making this hobo dinner foil packet meal often!
- It’s an easy recipe that’s so simple.
- It requires very little work.
- It’s perfect for putting dinner on the table or preparing around the campfire.
- It has classic ingredients that everyone loves.
🛒Ingredients
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- Ground beef
- French onion soup mix
- Baby gold potatoes cut into pieces
- Peeled and sliced carrots
- Slice onion
- Olive oil
- Salt and pepper to taste
- 4 large sheets of aluminum foil
See the recipe card below for quantities.
🔪 How to Make Hobo Dinner Foil Packets
It only takes a few minutes and a few simple steps to make this delicious recipe.
Step 1: Make Beef Patties
Form the beef into four evenly-sized patties and season with salt and pepper to taste.
Step 2: Fill the Packets
Place a patty in the center of each piece of aluminum foil. Then add potatoes, carrots, and onions in equal amounts to each piece of foil. Drizzle olive oil over all ingredients and sprinkle them with French onion soup mix.
Step 3: Close the Packets
Fold the long sides of the foil sheets up and over the contents and roll them closed to secure.
Step 4: Bake
Bake the packets for 30 minutes at 400 degrees. When done, carefully open the packets and serve.
Step 5: OR Cook Over the Fire
If camping, place a cooking grate over your fire. Be sure the fire isn’t so large that the flames come through the grate. Then, cook the packets for 30 minutes or until done.
📝Variations
Do you want to change up this recipe and make it your own? Here are some ways that you can do that!
- Spicy – Sprinkle the contents with red pepper flakes for a spicy kick.
- Veggies – Try adding your favorite veggies like parsnips, green beans, asparagus, or whatever else you like.
- Cheese – Potatoes and beef are both great with cheese. Sprinkle some on top before baking.
If you like French onion flavor, then check out these delicious French onion chops!
🥄 Equipment
You’ll only need a few basic kitchen implements to make this recipe.
- Knife
- Cutting board
- Aluminum foil
🥫 Storage
These are made specifically to be one serving each, however, in the unlikely event that you have leftovers, you can store them in the refrigerator for up to 3 days in an air-tight container.
💭 Tips
There’s not a ton to be said about making these delicious packets. They’re just about the easiest thing you’ll ever make. That being said, we have a couple of tips to be aware of.
- Make sure your potatoes are cut just a little larger than your carrots so everything cooks evenly.
- Make your foil sheets large enough to be folded completely over the contents to prevent leakage.
⁉️ FAQ
Do you have questions about this recipe? Here are the answers to the most commonly asked questions.
Unlike some recipes that were invented differently from their name, hobo meals were, in fact, created by hobos. Hobos congregated near railroad tracks, and each hobo in the camp would add something to a stew pot. On their own, each ingredient wouldn’t have been much but combined, they added up to a complete meal.
They’ll last for up to 3 days in an air-tight container in the refrigerator.
They’re the perfect campfire recipe. Just place a cooking grate over your campfire and place the packets right on it.
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🧾Hobo Dinner Foil Packets
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Hobo Dinner Foil Packets
Equipment
- Knife
- Cutting board
- Aluminum foil
Ingredients
- 1 ½ pound Ground beef
- 1 Packet French onion soup mix
- 1 pound Baby gold potatoes cut into pieces
- 2 Carrots peeled and sliced
- 1 Onion sliced
- 2 Tablespoon Olive oil
- Salt and pepper to taste
- 4 Large sheets of aluminum foil
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 400 degrees.
- Form the beef into four evenly sized patties, and season with salt and pepper to taste.
- Place one patty in the center of each large sheet of tin foil.
- Add an equal amount of potato, carrot and onion to each foil packet.
- Drizzle the olive oil over the foil packet contents.
- Sprinkle the French onion soup mix over the packets.
- Fold the long sides of the tin foil sheets up and over the contents, and roll closed to secure.
- Roll up the remaining sides of each piece of tin foil to form a secure packet.
- Bake for 30 minutes.
- Carefully open the foil packets and serve.
Yummy quick food
Thank you Shamila! This is a quick and easy go to dinner for us. So glad you liked it