Food
Campfire pizza
Pizza was originally a dish made to use up leftover food. It is a very good way to use up cold cuts and various vegetables. Campfire pizzas come out fairly small…
Pizza was originally a dish made to use up leftover food. It is a very good way to use up cold cuts and various vegetables. Campfire pizzas come out fairly small, so everyone can put on theirs exactly what they like best.
Preparation
20 min
Cooking time
15 - 20 min
Ingredients
- Pizza dough
- Oil for frying
- Pizza sauce
- Grated cheese
- cold cuts, Parma ham, tomato, pepper, onion, dinner leftovers… whatever you like. Just not all at once!
Topping
- Rocket
- Sour cream or another dressing
Servings
Equipment
- Trekking stove/Primus/firewood and matches for a campfire
- Frying pan with a lid
- Spatula
How to do it
- Put plenty of oil in a frying pan and press out a suitable piece of dough. Press it as thin as you can manage, as that makes it easiest to cook through
- Cook one side through first
- Take it off the heat and turn it before you add the sauce, cheese and cold cuts
- Put on the lid and finish cooking, until the cheese has melted
- Take the pizza out of the frying pan, add the topping you want and enjoy
Photo: Hilde Grøtte
Text and photo: Hilde Grøtte
Campfire pizza
Next steps
- Food over a campfire — other campfire dishes
- Wok over a campfire — other campfire food
- Pinnebrød — other campfire food
- Food on the trail — the hub
Learn more
- Mattilsynet — drinking water and hygiene — food safety outdoors
- The Norwegian Directorate of Health — dietary advice — nutrition
- Sopp- og Nyttevekstforbundet — mushrooms and wild plants
- DNT — trail food — recipes and tips