Philly Cheesesteak Tin Foil Dinners – Beef, green peppers, onions, mushrooms, provolone, salt, and pepper, wrapped up in an easily made tin foil packet.
Welcome to another Man Monday.
Sarah has been on a Philly Cheesesteak kick lately. She can’t get enough of them. Which is fine with me because I love the things. Interestingly enough, these Philly Cheesesteak Tin Foil Dinners actually happened by accident.
So there I was, with the two ladies in my life and my hound dog in the middle of the Colorado Rocky Mountains. We had just set up our camp, a good 100 feet from the dirt-road and no other campsite in sight. I’m setting up our camp – building a fire, setting up the tent, getting dinner ready (just regular old foil dinners), when suddenly I hear a generator being started up in some hidden camp not 50 yards away in the trees. How dare they?! This is the freakin’ wilderness! Why do you need a generator? To power your iPhone so you can keep playing Candy Crush? I hope a mountain lion eats you – then vomits you back out… because you’re gross.
Geez. Anyway. So there I was. Making foil dinners. I’m looking around and notice something very interesting. I had beef, provolone, peppers, onions, and mushrooms – I had a philly cheesteeak on my hands! Of course, I had all the other stuff like potatoes and carrots, but why not just try this Philly foil dinner? Well the rest is history folks. We GREATLY appreciated these Philly Cheesesteak Tin Foil Dinners.
Thank goodness too, because the trip itself was kind-of a let-down. #thanksColorado A mountain lion didn’t eat the generator user. Neither did it eat the campers that showed up later and decided to have a rock concert in the middle of the night. But a figurative mountain lion ate my appreciation for Colorado camping. Man, I can’t drive 3 hours to get away from the riffraff? What do I gotta do to get some solitude in this state?! #Utahisbest
Philly Cheesesteak Foil Dinner
Ingredients
- 1 lb ground beef
- 2 Russet potatoes chopped
- 1 green pepper chopped
- 1/2 large onion chopped
- 1 cup sliced mushrooms
- 4 slices provolone cheese
- salt and pepper to taste
Instructions
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(If using an oven) Preheat oven to 400°
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So easy – Divide all the ingredients into fourths.
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Place a nice 1/4 lb layer of meat on a 14" x 14" square foil piece. You can do a solid patty of meat or disperse the meat into chunks.
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Pile a desired amount of the remaining ingredients into your own individual meal.
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Be very generous with the salt when seasoning your uncooked pocket of awesome. Put more than you think you will need. Somehow, the salt kinda disappears during the cooking process, so be liberal.
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When the foil dinner is built according to your desires, wrap it up in the foil. Bring two sides in and crease the sides together, folding over a few times to make a tight pocket. Take the open sides and fold them closed until your fold runs into the food piled inside.
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Place the packet on a cookie sheet and bake for about 20-25 minutes - no need to flip or double wrap.
Recipe Notes
If you want to do this over a fire instead, place your dinner very close to (or even directly on) a pile of hot coals/briquettes. Cook for approximately 10 minutes, flipping halfway through.
-Zach
I am a big fan of foil wrapped meals and this sounds delicious! I will be trying it, but not on any camping trip!!
Made this tonight and really liked it, well with the exception of the potatoes. I was skeptical to begin with and chopped them up really small so they would cook through and for 25 minutes at 400 degrees they were still crunchy. In the future I think we will just leave them out.
We made this last night in the oven and it was delicious! We threw in some worcestershire sauce and it was so tasty! Thanks for the recipe <3
Did you brown the ground beef first?
Going to try this at home this weekend as a test before using for camping. I am pretty sure that 3 out of 4 of my family members will like this, but I have learned to just not include the picky 7 year old in my counted successes as there is so much she does not like. I love that this is a gluten free version of a Philly cheesesteak, since I can’t have gluten and well gluten free bread and buns are either just not the same or so expensive!
Dumb question: do you need to pre-cook the ground beef?
I feel like I always overdo everything when we camp and by the time we get out there im beat from prepping so much food. This sounds great. And oh my goodness do I ever understand the late night party riffraff people, been there several times and it is always the people that arrive late, I want peace and quiet, I want to hear the wind, the river, birds and all of nature’s glory. I can listen to music at home. And there are quiet places here in Colorado to camp but sometimes you just get bad luck.
Do you precook the Ground beef or use raw meat in the foil?
We use raw meat. 🙂 It cooks in the oven and the juices from it add a great flavor to the veggies!
Have you ever made ahead of time and put in freezer of such for transporting?
Now do you use actual ground beef or like steak???
Really good! Will be making this one again!
I’m so glad you liked it!! We love it when we want something different than traditional tin foil dinners. It helps that it is so easy to make!
Hello!
I just saw this recipe and I can’t WAIT to make it! A Philly cheesesteak is my favorite sandwich.
I had a thought that maybe because the salt seems to “disappear” is because potatoes require salt while cooking. If you wanted to take the extra step, you might want to parboil the potatoes in salt first and then add with all the vegetables as recommended in the recipe.
That way, if you’re watching your sodium, you wouldn’t have to add so much salt. Just a thought!
Can I use strips of Sirloin Steak and Frozen Stir Fry veggies?
Will be trying soon. Thanks
Any suggestions on what to serve with this meal?
Could I just put everything in a 13×9 dish and bake all together instead?
If you like foil packet meals try putting a piece of raw chicken, a ring of green pepper, a little bit of pineapple (Use cannded) and a tablespoon of bbq sauce on top. Fold foil to make an airtight packet. Bake in the over or throw on the grill about 35 or 40 minutes.
Do I put the cheese in the packets before cooking? Or put the cheese on after everything is cooked? Thanks!
When do you apply the CHEESE?
When do you add the cheese?
Looks yummy! Do you think flank steak could be subbed in instead of ground beef?
I was thinking of trying this for dinner tonight (12/11/17) but I was thinking steak instead, how do think that would turn out?
For non red meat eaters what kind of chicken can replace the beef?
Chopped up chicken breast should do the trick just fine! I’ve used chicken in our Sante Fe Chicken Foil Dinners and it turns out great every time! https://www.highheelsandgrills.com/santa-fe-chicken-foil-dinners/
Can these be made ahead and frozen?
Made these for the family on our last camping trip. Super yummy and different from the normal foil dinners. We loved it. I did add Italian seasoning to them for extra flavor. Definitely on our make again list.
Thanks for the delicious idea.
Trying tonight in the oven… already browned the hamburger. I feel like it needs bread…. would you wrap this in a tortilla shell before or after the oven?
This sounds great! But you don’t give the order in which to pile on the ingredients LOL. Should I sprinkle the salt and pepper on the meat first before putting the other stuff on? Also, what about the cheese, doesn’t it all get stuck to the foil?