Crock Pot Hobo Packets
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This Crock Pot Hobo Packets recipe will fill you up and give you a delicious veggie packed dinner with very little clean up required!
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How to Make Hobo Packets in a Crock Pot
Aunt Lou here.
If you want an amazing one pot meal that has your dinner in neat little packets, this Crock Pot Hobo Packets recipe is for you!
Growing up, I remember eating some version of this recipe made over the coals of a campfire. It is such a great way to get have a dinner all in one little package. You will not have to worry about watching all kinds of different dishes, your meal is all in one!
Your potatoes and carrots will take the longest to cook up nice and soft. They is why they need to be on the bottom on the aluminum foil boats you make in all the liquid. If your packets are like mine, they will leak a little of the yummy liquids you poured in into your crock pot insert. Don’t worry, there is still plenty left to make your meal deliciously flavorful!
What You Will Need
Ingredients Needed
- 1 lb lean ground beef, browned and drained, divided
- 4 medium potatoes, peeled and sliced, divided
- 16 oz bag of baby carrots, divided
- 1 small onion, chopped and divided
- 15 oz can Italian style green beans, divided
- 1 oz packet of brown gravy mix
- 2 cups water
- 1 cup of beef consumme, divided
- salt and pepper to taste
Equipment Needed
- Skillet
- Colander or strainer (I love my on-pot strainer)
- Sharp knife
- Cutting board
- Measuring cups
- Small bowl
- 4 sheets of aluminum foil
- Casserole Crock Pot
Time Needed
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cooking Time: 8-10 hours on low or 4-5 hours on high
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Crock Pot Hobo Packets
Ingredients
- 1 lb lean ground beef browned, drained and divided
- 4 medium potatoes peeled, sliced and divided
- 16 oz bag baby carrots divided
- 1 small onion diced, divided
- 15 oz Italian Cut Green Beans drained, divided
- 1 oz brown gravy mix packet
- 2 cups water
- 1 cup Beef Consume divided
- Salt and Pepper to taste
Instructions
- Take 4 large pieces of aluminum foil and make them into large boats
- In a small bowl, mix together your water and brown gravy mix
- Place 1/4 of your veggies in the bottom of one of your boats and top with 1/4 of your ground beef and 1/4 of all your liquids
- Repeat for all four aluminum foil boats
- Fold the top of your foil boats together and place them in a Casserole Crock Pot
- Cover and cook on low for 8-10 hours or high for 4-5 hours, turning your insert halfway through if your crock pot does not cook evenly
- Salt and pepper to taste before eating
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I made this for my lady friend and she loves it! Just wish I could figure out how to make foil packets that don’t leak the liquid out into the crock (or in a couple cases even started leaking as I was putting them into the crock LOL). Like Dave I was also wondering if it could be done without the whole foil packets thing. I was thinking maybe layer the veggies first then put the 4 roughly 1/4-lb chunks of ground meat on top then add an extra brown gravy packet to the liquid so that the liquid thickens a little more into a gravy as it cooks and pour it over the whole thing (by the way I didn’t need to cook the meat first….it all cooked just fine from raw in the very leaky foil packets)
Hey there. Could I just put all of this in the crockpot without foil and make one meal?
Love your site, I live out of a crockpot haha
I haven’t tried it that way Dave, but think it could work! If you give it a try, let me know how it turns out.
Aunt Lou
So do I man…so do I LOL!
I love that thing….dump it in, turn it on and go is about all the cooking I got time for these days. I made an apple cobbler/dump cake with canned apple pie filling, cake mix, and butter in the crockpot for the 4th and it was soooo good esp. served warm right out of the crockpot topped with vanilla ice cream and caramel sauce.
I would like to try this recipe but the instructions do not say what to do the with “1 cup beef consume, divided” Can I assume it goes in with the gravy mix & water? The only thing that confused me about that was the word “divided”…I always assume that to mean divided in half, but I am thinking this might mean in fourths ๐ THANKS
Hi Donna!
Yes, it is fourths. The consomme is included in the “all liquids” part of step 3. Hope this helps!
Aunt Lou
It’s also about roughly the amount that’s in a can of the Campbell’s beef consomme so you can just add the whole can. ๐