Dutch Oven Sausage Balls
Sausage, cheese, and baking mix rolled into balls and baked over coals. Breakfast for a full patrol.
- calories
- 430
- weight
- 5.5 oz
- cal / oz
- 78
- protein
- 17 g
- serves
- 6, scales
- prep
- 15 min
- cook
- 15 min
- total time
- 30 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.
- Breakfast
- Dutch oven
- Campfire coals
- Car camping
- Basecamp
- Nut free
- One pot
- Grab and go
- Needs a cooler
- Basic
Ingredients
| Bulk breakfast sausage | 1 lb | bulk, not links or patties |
|---|---|---|
| Baking mix | 3 cups | Bisquick or equivalent |
| Cheddar cheese | 6 oz | grated at home |
| Egg | 1 | |
| Butter | 1/4 cup | |
| Hot pepper sauce | to taste | optional, at the table |
Method
- Butter the bottom of a 12-inch dutch oven. Set it over coals and bring it to about 350°F for baking: coals on the lid, fewer underneath.
- With clean hands, work the sausage, egg, cheese, and baking mix together until no dry flour is left. It will be stiff.
- Pinch off pieces and roll them into 1-inch balls. You should get about a dozen.
- Lay them in a single layer in the oven. Do not crowd them or the middles stay raw.
- Lid on, bake 15 minutes. Check one: the center should be firm and no longer pink.
- Serve hot, with hot sauce for anyone who wants it.
This is a dutch oven recipe and stays one. The sausage supplies both the fat and the leavening liquid, so the baking mix hydrates off the meat instead of off water you have to carry or heat. That is why there is no water in the ingredient list at all.
Heat placement matters more than time. Baking means most of the coals go on the lid; pile them underneath and you get black bottoms and raw centers. One layer only, for the same reason. This one needs a cooler, so it is a car camping or basecamp breakfast, not something to walk in with.
Packing
Grate the cheese and portion the baking mix at home. Sausage and egg ride in the cooler; the egg is safest inside a hard container or already cracked into a small screw-top jar.
Variations
- Skip the egg and add a splash of milk if you would rather not carry one.
- A second batch goes in while the first is being eaten — the oven is already at temperature.
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