17+ Camping Smoker Recipes That’ll Make You Lick Your Fingers

Want to add some smoky-flavored recipes to your camping food menus? You’ll enjoy these camping smoker recipes that include appetizers, sides and main dishes like smoked queso cheese dip, corn on the cob, smoked jerky, chicken legs, BBQ ribs, smoked meatloaf, spatchcocked smoked turkey and more!

Camping Smoker Recipes by CampingForFoodies features twelve different recipes made in smokers including smoked beef, chicken, lamb, pork, corn and queso cheese dip with text over the image that reads smoker camping recipes.

Psst we’re compensated…see our disclosures.

But if you don’t want to buy an extra piece of equipment, try making one with your existing equipment.

Do a DIY camping smoker Weber Smokey Joe smoker conversion to make these awesome recipes on your next trip!

Simple DIY Modifications For A Weber Smokey Joe Smoker Conversion - Camping For Foodies .com

Smoked Honey Sriracha Chicken Drumsticks

These simple chicken legs are sweet, spicy, sticky and crispy!

Smoked Honey Sriracha Chicken Drumsticks by CampingForFoodies features a blue camping plate filled with sticky, golden brown, chicken legs coated in brownish, red BBQ sauce that is glistening from the caramelized sugars, bright green pieces of cilantro are scattered across the glazed meat.
Smoked Honey Sriracha Chicken Drumsticks by CampingForFoodies

Pellet Smoked Short Ribs

Make easy, fall-off-the-bone tender, non-sauced BBQ beef ribs in a portable tailgate smoker with 6 simple ingredients!

Pellet Smoked Short Ribs by CampingForFoodies features a blue camping plate filled with food ready to be served at the campsite. The English-style cut short ribs have a golden brown color after being smoked in a pellet grill. Next to the ribs are smoked green beans with bacon and fluffy mashed potatoes sprinkled with freshly ground black pepper.
Pellet Smoked Short Ribs by CampingForFoodies

Smoked Green Beans

These beans are like traditional southern green beans but the smoky flavor doesn’t just come from the bacon! They smoke for 3 hours at 225 degrees F in your pellet grill smoker along with your main course. This is just one of our yummy keto camping food ideas.

Smoked Green Beans by CampingForFoodies features a cast iron skillet filled with green beans, bacon, onions and garlic that have been smoked in a portable pellet grill and are ready to be served at the campsite.
Smoked Green Beans by CampingForFoodies

Smoked Ground Beef Chili

This chili combines ground beef, bacon, onion, garlic, jalapeno peppers, spices and three types of beans that are all cooked in a portable pellet grill smoker for a hearty and warm dinner.

Smoked Ground Beef Chili by CampingForFoodies features an aluminum foil pan filled with smoked chili that has been smoked in a portable pellet grill and includes hamburger, bacon, onion, garlic, jalapeno peppers, spices, three types of beans, tomatoes and sauce that is ready to be served at the campsite.
Smoked Ground Beef Chili by CampingForFoodies

Chuck Roast Burnt Ends (A Quick Version Of Poor Man’s Brisket)

If you are craving meat candy at the campsite but don’t have enough time to tend the 18+ hour process, try making these burnt ends using a beef chuck roast! It only takes a few minutes to prep and about 5 hours to cook this version of Poor Man’s Burnt Ends.

Chuck Roast Burnt Ends Poor Man’s Brisket Recipe by CampingForFoodies features a blue camping plate and bowl filled with food including BBQ sauce covered burnt ends made from beef chuck roast with a side of baked beans and coleslaw with text over the image that reads chuck roast burnt ends.

Easy Smoked Chicken Legs On A Pellet Grill

Cooking for a couple or an entire family? This simple recipe allows you to smoke as many chicken legs as you need. The yummy spicy dry rub stands alone but you can slather on some of your favorite BBQ sauce too, like this Kansas City Style Homemade Old Fashioned Molasses BBQ Sauce.

Smoked BBQ Chicken Legs by CampingForFoodies features chicken drumsticks cooked and ready to be served on a blue camping plate in front of a portable pellet smoker with text over the image that reads smoked chicken legs.

Kansas City Dry Rub: Amazing Flavor For KC Style BBQ Recipes

This simple Kansas City dry rub is easy to make and can be stored up to a year in a tightly sealed container. It is a super versatile flavor profile that you can use on beef, pork and poultry when you want to add some fast flavor to meats you smoke at the campsite.

Kansas City Dry Rub by CampingForFoodies features a glass jar filled with a red and brown colored mix of spices making a dry rub for smoking meats that is sitting on the top of a pellet box on a portable smoker with mountains and desert plants in the background at a campsite with text over the image that reads Kansas City Dry Rub.

Dutch Oven Ribs Camping Recipe

The best camping smoker recipes don’t have to use a smoker. If you’d rather use your camp Dutch oven than your smoker, you can slow cook these ribs till they are fall-off-the-bone tender and add a bit of liquid smoke to the sauce for that smoky flavor.

Camping Dutch Oven BBQ Ribs Can Be Cooked With Charcoal Briquettes Or Over A Campfire
kim cooking outdoors
Send me FREE camping tips!

I want "5 Secrets To Successful Camping Trips" plus weekly camping tips & recipes.


10 More Exciting Smoked Recipes

Smoked Recipes From Around The Web

Smoking recipes are popular with chefs and backyard cooks too. Try these yummy ideas!


FREE Printable Menu Planner

Make your next trip stress-free with a little pre-planning. Get your copy of our FREE printable camping trip planner template!

Camping Trip Planner Template Free Printable by CampingForFoodies is a whimsical illustration of a cute old orange car towing a blue and white vintage camper trailer down a road in a landscape of green trees, light green grass and brown mountains with fluffy clouds in a blue sky; thumbnail images of multiple pages of a camping trip planner under the text that reads camping free trip planner.

More Camping Food Recipes

Need easy and fun ideas for your next camping menu?

If you’re looking for awesome ideas for yummy camping food, you’re in the right place! Here’s our entire camping recipes list.

Get FREE camping tips and meal ideas emailed to you!

Similar Posts

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *