Best 20 Hobo Recipes

HOBO DINNER

Steps:

• Shape beef into a patty; place in the center of foil with potato, carrot and onion. Sprinkle with salt and pepper if desired. Fold foil over and seal well; place on a baking sheet. Bake at 350° for 45 minutes. Open foil carefully.

CAMPFIRE HOBO DINNER

Steps:

• Spray 18-inch square of aluminum foil with cooking spray.
• Place 1/4 of the meat in center of foil.
• Place 1/4 of the vegetables on top of meat.
• Season with butter, salt, garlic powder and pepper to taste.
• Fold top and sides of foil several times to seal food.
• THREE WAYS TO COOK: Always place seam side up when cooking. You may want to double wrap if cooking on a campfire or grill.
• •CAMPFIRE: Place on hot coals near the edge of your campfire and allow to cook 25-30 minutes, or until meat is done.
• •GRILL: Place on medium/hot grill for 40 minutes; rotate 1/2 way through cook time.
• •OVEN: Preheat oven to 350°F Place on cookie sheet or cooking stone; bake for 30 to 45 minutes, or until meat is done.
• OPEN CAREFULLY!

HOBO BEEF AND VEGETABLE SOUP

Steps:

• Stir the beef broth, carrots, celery, parsley, celery seed, and bay leaves into a slow cooker set on High, cover, and cook until the vegetables are tender, about 2 hours.
• Place the ground beef, onion, and garlic into a skillet over medium heat. Cook, stirring frequently to break the beef into small pieces, until the onion is translucent and the beef is browned and no longer shows pink areas, 10 to 15 minutes. Drain off fat, and stir the stewed tomatoes into the beef mixture. Bring to a boil over medium heat, and cook, stirring frequently, until the tomatoes are broken up into small pieces.
• Stir the potatoes, corn, green beans, and peas into the soup in the slow cooker, and add the beef mixture. Stir everything together, cover, and set the slow cooker on High. Cook for 4 hours.

HOBO'S DELIGHT

Steps:

• Preheat grill for medium-high heat.
• Form the ground beef into individual patties, and place each patty on a piece of foil large enough to hold the patty and some vegetables. Layer each patty with onion slices, carrots, and potato slices. Season with seasoned salt, salt, and pepper to taste. Wrap foil around food, and seal each packet tightly.
• Grill 30 minutes, or until the potatoes are tender. Carefully open each packet (the steam that escapes will be very hot), and serve.

HOBO BEANS

Steps:

• Heat a large skillet over medium-high heat. Cook and stir hamburger and bacon together in the hot skillet until hamburger is browned and crumbly, 7 to 10 minutes.
• Stir cooked hamburger and bacon, baked beans with pork, kidney beans, lima beans, onions, ketchup, brown sugar, and mustard together in the crock of your slow cooker.
• Cook on Low until hot and thickened, at least 3 hours.

HOBO STEW

Steps:

• Heat oil in a large pot over medium-high heat. Add in the onion, carrots, and celery. Cook until the onion is translucent.
• Add the meat and cook until no longer pink. Toss in the tomato paste and cook for roughly two minutes. The color of the paste will deepen. Put in the garlic and cook 30 seconds, until garlic is fragrant.
• Add the flour and stir to coat the meat and vegetables. Allow to cook for 2 or 3 minutes to cook out the raw flour taste.
• Stir in the tomatoes with their juices. Add both kinds of broth, Worcestershire sauce, bay leaves, and then carefully place your potatoes inches Stir in the rest of the vegetables (green beans, hominy, and black-eyes peas.).
• Bring to a boil, then cover, reduce heat and simmer hard (or low boil) until the potatoes are done (you will be able to easily slide a fork in.) It could take up to an hour depending on how small you cut the potatoes. Stir occasionally.
• When potatoes are done remove the bay leaves, stir in the oregano, and salt and pepper to taste.

HOBO

Steps:

• In a large skillet over medium-high heat, brown the sausage. If desired, drain the fat.
• Add the onions and mushrooms and cook until tender, then set aside in a separate bowl.
• In the same skillet, add the oil and hash browns over medium-high heat and cook until golden brown on 1 side. Once golden brown, add the eggs, sausage and the mushroom mixture. Scramble together until desired consistency and top with the Cheddar.
• Cover with a lid until the cheese melts and serve.

HOBO GROUND BEEF AND VEGETABLE SOUP

Steps:

• Stir beef broth, ground sirloin, corn, green beans, peas, tomato sauce, carrots, potatoes, onion, celery, garlic, parsley, celery seed, and bay leaves together in a slow cooker.
• Cook on Low for 4 hours. Check for moisture and add broth as needed. Continue cooking another 4 hours. Season with salt and black pepper.

HOBO BREAD

Steps:

• Place the dark and golden raisins in a medium bowl. Dissolve baking soda in boiling water, and pour over raisins. Let stand overnight without stirring.
• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease three 1 pound sized coffee cans.
• In a large bowl, stir together the flour, sugar and salt. Stir in the raisins with their water, and the oil until well blended. Batter will be thick. Divide the batter evenly between the 3 cans.
• Bake for 1 hour in the preheated oven, or until a toothpick inserted into the crown comes out clean. Lay cans on their side to loosen the bread as it cools.

HOBO'S

Steps:

• Make 4 patties out of ground chuck.
• Place patty in the middle of a piece of aluminum foil. (make foil big enough to come back up to the middle of the patty and to go around the veggies).
• Sprinkle with garlic salt or garlic powder and pepper.
• Stack veggies on top of burger patty, starting with potatoes.
• Follow by onion slices.
• Follow with carrots and green beans.
• Pull foil up to middle and gather at the top and twist closed. (try to make sure no areas are open on the side for easier clean-up).
• Place in 375°F oven on cookie sheet or directly on oven racks if you are certain, all areas are closed up for 1 hour or until patties are cooked through.
• Once cooked, open foil packet and sprinkle cheese on top.
• Leaving foil packet open, place back in oven long enough to just melt the cheese.
• No need for sides, the whole meal is in the packet!
• Can be cooked on the BBQ grill or campfire also.

HOBO BREAKFAST CASSEROLE

Steps:

• oil griddle & get hot,.
• put enough hash browns down to cover griddle. As hash browns are getting golden crisp I then place on top of browns my cooked meat & vegetables then my beaten eggs, place a lid over it until egg is set.
• cut into serving size squares and flip, place lid back on & cook until egg is cooked all the way through.
• Top with cheese until melted. We enjoy this served up with peppered cream gravy.
• variation= with vegetables add green chili's & when done serve it with your favorite salsa.

CHASEN'S HOBO STEAK

Steps:

• Season steak with pepper.
• Wrap fat around sides of steak, covering them completely but leaving top and bottom exposed.
• Tie fat to steak with string near top and bottom.
• Fat must be securely anchored to steak.
• Combine salt and water to make paste.
• Mound about 3/4 of mixture over top of steak, covering meat completely.
• Place steak under broiler and broil 8 to 10 minutes, depending on size of steak.
• Carefully remove salt crust, keeping it in one piece.
• Turn steak over and place salt crust on other side.
• If necessary, patch crust with remaining salt mixture.
• Broil steak another 8 to 10 minutes. Remove steak from broiler and discard crust and fat.
• Slice meat, cutting slightly on diagonal.
• Heat butter in chafing dish or large skillet until foaming and lightly browned.
• Place a few slices of meat at a time in butter and cook to desired degree of doneness.
• (Allow about 1 minute on each side for rare meat.)
• Place each slice of meat on slice of toast and spoon some of the hot butter over.

CAMPER'S HOBO DINNER

Steps:

• Place veggies and hamburger pattie in middle of large sheet of aluminum foil.
• Sprinkle with seasoned salt.
• Bring up the two long sides of the foil to meet above the food, fold (crimp) the foil several times until it is snug against the food.
• Fold (crimp) the short ends of the foil several times until snug against the food.
• This will seal the food in and prevent leakage.
• Place package directly on hot charcoal and cook for about 15 to 20 minutes each side (or, you can place package in a 350-degree oven for 45 minutes to 1 hour).
• Make as many packages as needed.

HOBO STEW

Steps:

• Heat a cast iron Dutch oven over a campfire, and brown the ground beef. Drain off the excess grease, then pour in the mixed vegetables, tomatoes, macaroni, and water. Season with salt and pepper to taste. Cover, and cook until the macaroni is tender, and the stew has reached desired thickness.

HOBO DINNER

Steps:

• Preheat over to 350 degrees.
• Line a 9x13 baking pan with aluminum foil, if desired (makes for easier cleanup).
• Layer the potatoes and carrots together in the bottom of the pan.
• Layer the sausage slices on top of the vegetables.
• Layer onion slices on top of the meat slices.
• Mix cream of mushroom soup and cream of celery soup together, or pour together over casserole.
• Add water or milk to the soup for thinner gravy, if desired.
• Pour over other ingredients.
• Cover with aluminum foil.
• Bake at 350 degrees until vegetables are tender, about 1 hour 30 minutes.

HOBO BREAD

Steps:

• FOR PART ONE: Mix PART ONE ingredients in large mixing bowl and refrigerate overnight.
• FOR PART TWO:.
• Add remaining PART TWO ingredients to PART ONE.
• Grease and flour 4 coffee cans.
• Divide dough into the 4 cans.
• Bake approximately 1 hr 10mins at 350 degrees.
• Remove bread from cans immediately when done.

HAMBURGER HOBO POUCHES

Steps:

• 1. Lay out 4 sheets of heavy duty aluminum foil and spray each one with butter flavor cooking spray. Place onion slices on the center of foil.
• 2. Shape the ground beef into four quarter pound hamburger patties. Lay hamburgers on top of onions and sprinkle with seasonings.
• 3. Place sliced carrots and potatoes over hamburger patties and sprinkle again with seasonings and spray with a bit of butter flavored cooking spray or I can't believe it's not butter spray.
• 4. Fold aluminum foil over burgers and vegetables and seal edges to make a pouch.
• 5. Bake in preheated 350 degree oven or grill over hot coals for 30 minutes until meat is cooked through and potatoes and carrots are tender.

GREENFIELD VILLAGE "HOBO BREAD"

Steps:

• 1. Preheat oven to 350 F. Grease and flour 3 or 4 empty and clean soup cans.
• 2. Pour boiling water over raisins or currants. Add brandy and let cool.
• 3. Whisk together baking soda, salt and flour; set aside. In large bowl mix together butter, milk, vanilla, egg and the sugars. Add the raising or currants and all the liquid.
• 4. Gently mix in flour mixture and walnuts until just blended. (It's ok if there are lumps or streaks of flour)
• 5. Fill the soup cans to half full. Bake for 40 minute to an hour. Cool 5 minutes in cans before removing to a rack to cool completely.

CHICKEN HOBO

Steps:

• In a skillet over medium-high heat, cook the bacon until evenly brown. Drain, chop coarsely, and set aside.
• On 4 large squares of heavy duty aluminum foil, evenly distribute the potatoes, carrots, and onion. Arrange the chicken breasts over the vegetables, and sprinkle with the chopped bacon. Top each with 2 tablespoons butter, and season with garlic salt. Fold the foil over the ingredients, and tightly seal.
• Preheat an outdoor grill for medium-high heat.
• Place foil packets on the grill, and cook for 20 minutes, or until chicken is no longer pink and juices run clear.

HOBO CASSEROLE

Steps:

• 1. Preheat oven to 350°F.
• 2. Pat ground beef into 8x8 pan and sprinkle with salt and pepper. If using, slice onion on top of beef. Slice potatoes onto onion layer, salt and pepper. Layer with cheese slices. Mix soup and milk together and spread over cheese.
• 3. Cover with aluminum foil and bake for 1 to 1 1/2 hours or until potatoes are tender. Remove foil and top with french fried onions and brown for about 5 minutes.