Recipe - Campfire Onion Bombs (2024)

We are big time campers and I recently came across this recipe.
We tried them out last weekend on our camping trip and they were a
huge success. We will definitely be making them again. They are simple
and easy to prepare and you can adjust them to your own liking! I pretty
much followed the recipe below. It is basically mini meat loaves wrapped
in onion. Just prepare then, toss them on the open fire and enjoy!!

Campfire Onion Bombs

Ingredients

• 2 large onions
• 2 pounds ground beef
• 1 tsp garlic powder
• 1 tsp onion powder
• 1 Tbs basil
• 1 Tbs oregano
• 1 Tbs parsly
• 1 egg, beaten
• ½ cup fresh bread crumbs
• ½ cup freshly grated parmesan cheese
• 1 tsp salt
• ½ tsp black pepper
• ½ cup milk
• tomato sauce (optional, they really do not need the sauce)

Instructions

1. Peel onions & cut in half. Separate the onions into matching pieces.
2. In a bowl, mix together all the remaining ingredients except for the tomato sauce. It is easiest to use your hands. Do not over mix or the result will be very dense!
3. Fill two sides of an onion, then press together. Repeat.
4. Wrap 5 - 10 bombs per foil packet. (I use heavy duty aluminum foil and wrap at least 3 times)
5. To cook, place them in a large amount of very hot coals for 20 minutes, flip over and cook for another 20 minutes. Total cooking time will depend on the size of your bombs and the hotness of your coals. Check on them to be sure they are cooked all the way through.
6. You could also roast these in a 350º oven if you aren’t camping!
7. To serve, remove the foil and top with tomato sauce if desired.

morning glory said:

Onion powder. That's a new one to me.. Not sure we have that here.

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I have seen onion salt and granules so that might be similar.
Just wondering how often here in the UK we might get to cook on a real campfire though

sidevalve said:

I have seen onion salt and granules so that might be similar.
Just wondering how often here in the UK we might get to cook on a real campfire though

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Well, almost never, as far as I'm concerned. I'm only prepared (and that would be at a pinch) to consider 'glamping'. Do they have glamp fires, I wonder?

morning glory said:

Onion powder. That's a new one to me.. Not sure we have that here. I shouldn't think that would matter too much, though. I like the idea of using the onions to pack the meat into. Perhaps I'm not fully understanding this, though. Don't you end up with various sizes of 'bombs' because the layers of onion used to form the shell, get smaller and smaller?

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Yes they do. The bombs would get smaller as the onion gets smaller. So you have a variety of different sizes!

Diane Lane said:

Haha, I love the idea of 'glamping' much more than camping, other than in a cabin, but these do sound good. They can probably be made in the backyard over a fire, as well, or at the beach. Onion powder is prevalent here in the U.S., and is different from onion salt. I try to limit my salt intake, since so many food products are packed with it, but I keep both on hand.

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Interesting on the onion salt / powder - do you have any brand names we could try searching out ?

McCormick Onion Powder 2.62 oz (74g)
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/JustIngredients-Onion-Powder-500g-LOOSE/dp/B0062X5L6W
Frontier Natural Products Organic Onion Powder, 2.10 oz (59 g) Size: 1

classic33 said:

McCormick Onion Powder 2.62 oz (74g)
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/JustIngredients-Onion-Powder-500g-LOOSE/dp/B0062X5L6W
Frontier Natural Products Organic Onion Powder, 2.10 oz (59 g) Size: 1

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Well, thank you for sourcing this @classic33! I have to say its not top of my list of 'must have' ingredients but at least its organic!

morning glory said:

Well, thank you for sourcing this @classic33! I have to say its not top of my list of 'must have' ingredients but at least its organic!

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And on sale in the UK!