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When it comes to easy chicken recipes you can’t get much more uncomplicated than this 3 Ingredient Caesar Chicken. This is one of my favorite camping dinner recipes when I want a really easy meal that requires no prep time and uses simple ingredients.

3 Ingredient Caesar Chicken by CampingForFoodies features a blue camping plate filled with a hearty dinner meal. The chicken breast is covered in a white, creamy sauce and golden brown Parmesan cheese. A bright green leafy salad with red cherry tomatoes that are sliced in half and purple onion are tossed in salad dressing that is next to a bed of white fluffy rice on the plate which is set on a wooden picnic table. A forest is in the background lit by the golden glow of a setting sun.

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Recipe Prep

This is one of my super-simple, easy camping meals that requires ZERO prep work!

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Cooking Methods & Equipment

To make this as one of our easy campfire recipes: For traditional outdoor cooking, you’ll need a 12-Inch, 6 Quart Cast Iron Dutch Oven using campfire coals or charcoal briquettes.
To make this as one of our camp stove recipes: To use a 12-inch Dutch oven with a propane camp stove, you’ll need to use a dome for the baking process. I have an entire post with a VIDEO to show you how to cook with a Dutch oven dome & heat diffuser plate.
To make this in an RV kitchen: If you want to brown the chicken on a stove top then bake the meal in an RV oven, you can just use a cast iron skillet.
- Otherwise, you can use any skillet to brown the chicken, then, transfer it to a casserole dish for baking in an oven.
- You can also transfer it to a slow cooker to finish cooking, set your crock pot to a high setting and cook for about 5 hours.

Recipe Steps

Step 1. Prepare your ingredients, heat source and equipment as directed. For baking at an oven temperature of 375 F degrees you will need 27 total coals = 18 top / 9 bottom if you are using a 12-inch Dutch oven. If you are using a different oven size, check our Dutch oven temperature chart to see how many coals you will need.

Lightly season both sides of meat with salt and pepper, then, spray the pot with cooking spray.

Step 2. Brown the meat. Place chicken in pot, brown one side, flip and brown second side.

Step 3. Add dressing. Pour the salad dressing into the pan. Flip the meat to coat both sides and arrange in a single layer for best results and even baking. For special diets, check the label to ensure the dressing does not contain gluten if you’re making gluten free camping food.

Step 4. Cover with lid and bake. Arrange coals placing 18 on top and 9 under the bottom and bake the Caesar chicken breasts until they are cooked through. The internal temperature of the thickest part of the meat should be 165 F degrees.

Step 5. Add cheese. Remove lid, sprinkle grated cheese over the dish, replace cover and move all the coals to the top of the lid to broil the cheese.

Step 6. Serve chicken topped with sauce and garnish, if desired.

Substitutions

This creamy Caesar chicken bake is one of my favorite boondocking recipes because it requires no prep, uses just a few simple ingredients and cooks quickly. For an even faster cook time, use chicken tenders instead of boneless chicken breasts. Reduce the baking time to about 20 minutes.

Pairings

To keep this easy dinner recipe as simple as possible, I just serve a side salad in small bowl. I toss leaf lettuce in a little vinegar and olive oil, or, I use just use a salad kit.

There is so much flavor in the Caesar sauce you may want to soak it up by serving the chicken over rice or with your favorite pasta. If you’re preparing keto camping food, I recommend using cauliflower rice to keep it low-carb.

Meal Planning

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Leftovers

Store leftovers in an airtight container in a refrigerator or cooler for a quick lunch.

Make chicken Caesar salads. Fill a big bowl with leaf lettuce, top it with cubed leftover chicken and toss with remaining bottle of Caesar dressing.
Make sandwiches or wraps. Slice the leftover chicken and pile it on your favorite bread or wrap with some lettuce, tomato and mayo.

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