Dutch Oven One Pot Spaghetti Recipe

Contrary to popular belief, you don’t need various pots and pans to make decent spaghetti. You can make one pot spaghetti. In fact, some would argue it tastes even better than spaghetti made in two or three pots.

This is my recipe for Dutch oven spaghetti made outside with charcoal briquettes or wood charcoal. The reason you can make this with just a Dutch oven over a fire (or one pot on your stove) is because you cook the sauce first and then cook the spaghetti in the sauce. What’s great about this strategy is the spaghetti gets infused with the flavor of the sauce as it cooks.

Cooking Spaghetti with a Dutch Oven and Charcoal Briquettes

This dish was one of the first recipes I made in my outdoor cooking fire pit.

This is a great family recipe for camping, because:

• There is only one dish so it’s quick cleanup.
• You save water because you boil the spaghetti in the sauce.
• The meals breaks up the camping monotony of hamburgers and hotdogs.
• Everyone loves spaghetti!

I used charcoal briquettes to cook this recipe, starting them in a charcoal chimney to speed the process along. I know charcoal briquettes are frowned upon for outdoor cooking because of the additives, but they’re really not a problem if you’re just using them to heat a Dutch oven. They are a cheap, fast, and consistent way to cook, and the food is fully sealed away from the briquettes when you’re using a Dutch oven.

One Pot Spaghetti Dutch Oven Recipe

Survive Doomsday's One Pot Spaghetti Dutch Oven Recipe

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Serves: 4 Prep Time: 10 Cooking Time: 25 25

Nutrition facts: 200 calories 16 fat

Rating: 3.0/5

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Ingredients

• 1 pound lean ground beef
• 1 sweet onion - diced
• 6 cloves of garlic - minced
• 15 ounces of canned tomato sauce
• 15 ounces of diced tomatoes
• 2 3/4 cup water
• 1 tablespoon Italian seasoning mix
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon pepper
• 1 teaspoon sugar
• 12oz spaghetti
• Parmesan cheese topped to liking
• 2 tablespoons parsley

Instructions

1. Heat coals while prepping ingredients and place a deep Dutch oven on a single layer of coals when ready.
2. Add ground beef and onion and cook until browned. Drain the grease, but be careful draining it near a fire.
3. Add the garlic and stir it constantly for 30 seconds (garlic will burn fast if you're not careful).
4. Stir in the tomato sauce, undrained diced tomatoes, and water. Add the Italian seasoning, salt, pepper, and sugar.
5. Bring to a boil and add the spaghetti. Break it in half to make it all fit in the Dutch oven. You want to cover the pasta in the sauce.
6. Return to a boil. Cover and place coals on top of the Dutch oven lid.
7. Cook for approximately 12 minutes or until the noodles are cooked through, stirring a few times. Remove/add coals as needed to maintain proper temperature.
8. Carefully remove the Dutch oven from the fire. Sprinkle with Parmesan cheese and parsley to taste.

Results

This recipe certainly rivaled anything I could make in the house short of spending a lot more time and energy building a homemade sauce. It was fast, easy, and because it only used the Dutch oven, clean up was much faster. Cooking it outdoors also meant no kitchen cleanup!

It’s worth noting that I could in fact taste a difference cooking the pasta in the sauce. It’s hard to describe the difference other than it was more uniform. In other words, it really didn’t taste like spaghetti with meat sauce, it tasted like spaghetti meat sauce – if that make sense.

Try it and tell me what you think in the comments section.