Camp Dipping Sauce
Mayo packets, honey, mustard, and barbecue sauce shaken into the sauce that makes fried food work.
- calories
- 80
- weight
- 0.5 oz
- cal / oz
- 160
- protein
- 0 g
- serves
- 12, scales
- prep
- 3 min
- cook
- 0 min
- total time
- 3 min
- water
- none
- cost
- $
Calorie and protein figures are my own estimates, good enough for planning a food bag and not meant as precise nutrition data.
- Snack
- Dinner
- No cook
- Car camping
- Backpacking
- Canoe / raft
- Basecamp
- Vegetarian
- Gluten free
- Nut free
- Eat in the bag
- Pre-mix at home
- Shelf stable
- Dump and stir
Ingredients
| Mayonnaise packets | 1/2 cup total | about 8 single-serve packets; shelf-stable until opened |
|---|---|---|
| Honey | 2 tbsp | packets, or a small squeeze tube |
| Barbecue sauce | 1 tbsp | smoky, not the sweet kind |
| Yellow mustard | 2 tsp | packets from any deli counter |
| Lemon juice | 1 tsp | a lemon wedge or one juice packet |
Method
- Squeeze everything into a small screw-top jar or a doubled snack bag.
- Seal it and work the honey off the bottom with your thumb through the bag, or shake the jar hard for a full minute. Honey sinks and stays there if you rush this.
- Let it sit an hour if you can. It thickens and the mustard edge settles down.
- Dip. Once mixed, treat it like an opened condiment and finish it the same day in warm weather.
This is a condiment, not a meal, and it earns its weight by making dry trail food edible. Fried potatoes over a fire, rehydrated chicken, tortilla-wrapped anything: the honey and barbecue sauce do the sweetness, the mustard and lemon cut the fat of the mayo. Ratios matter more than technique.
The trail adaptation is packet mayonnaise instead of a jar. Single-serve packets are pasteurized and sealed, so they ride in a pack without a cooler, and mixing at camp means nothing spoils on the way in. Once combined it behaves like any opened mayo, so make what you will eat that day rather than carrying a jar of it around.
Packing
Carry the components as sealed packets and mix in camp. Packet mayo is shelf-stable unopened, so nothing needs a cooler until you combine it. If you mix at home, use a leakproof jar and keep it in the cooler.
Variations
- A pinch of smoked paprika and cayenne gets it closer to the original without a cooler item.
- Swap the mayo for an equal amount of powdered egg-free mayo mix reconstituted with cold water if you want a lighter carry.
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