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.

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How To Make Smoked Camping Recipes

Small portable smokers are all the rage at campsites across the country. Tabletop propane and pellet grills are easy to use and transport.

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

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Smoked Honey Sriracha Chicken Drumsticks

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

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!

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 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.

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.