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Posted by Jessica Pinney on April 5, 2015, last updated March 7, 2024

One of my favorite parts of camping is getting to try out a new recipe over the open fire. We made these Pizza Nachos during a camping trip to Point Mugu a few weeks ago.

We got to eat them by the ocean at sunset, while dolphins and whales played. Seriously, California is the best state!

I love these as a camping recipe because you can do most of the prep at home then throw it together at the campsite with minimal dishes. Very easy. If you aren’t camping, you could also make this in the oven at home (just pre-heat your oven to 400 degrees).

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Ingredients

Garlic Cream Sauce Ingredients

Unsalted Butter
Olive Oil
Garlic Cloves
Heavy Cream
Milk
Parmesan Cheese
Salt
Pepper
Red Pepper Flakes

Nachos Ingredients

Tortilla Chips
Onion
Pepperoni
Black Olives
Bell Pepper
Green Onions
Colby-Jack Cheese

Directions

Garlic Cream Sauce: Melt the butter and olive oil in a saucepan Once the butter is melted, add the minced garlic. Stir. After a minute or two, add in the cream and milk. Stir until it comes to a boil. Add salt, pepper, red pepper flakes, and cheese. Stir until sauce has thickened. Once it has thickened, remove from fire and set aside.

Nachos: Grab your cast iron skillet and add the tortilla chips. Drizzle the garlic cream sauce all over the chips.

Top with the onions, pepperoni, olives, bell pepper, and colby jack cheese. The best approached is to layer it between tortilla chips so every bit gets plenty of toppings.

Place over the open fire and cover. Cook until the cheese is nice and bubbly and the veggies are warm, about 5-8 minutes.

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Campfire Pizza Nachos Recipe

Make Pizza Nachos with garlic cream sauce over the campfire with this easy recipe.

Author: Jessica Pinney

Servings: 5

Prep Time: 10 minutes minutes

Cook Time: 10 minutes minutes

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5 from 4 votes

Ingredients

Garlic Cream Sauce Ingredients:

▢ 1.5 Tablespoons Unsalted Butter
▢ ½ Tablespoons Olive Oil
▢ 2-3 Garlic Cloves (Minced)
▢ ½ cups Heavy Cream
▢ ¼ cup Milk
▢ 1/4 Cup Parmesan Cheese
▢ Salt
▢ Pepper
▢ Red Pepper Flakes

Nacho Ingredients:

▢ 1 Bag of Tortilla Chips
▢ ½ cups Garlic Cream Sauce (recipe below)
▢ ¼ cups Onion (diced)
▢ ½ cups Pepperoni (cut into quarters)
▢ ½ cups Black Olives (sliced)
▢ ½ whole Bell Pepper (diced)
▢ 2 Green Onions (sliced)
▢ 1 cup Colby-Jack Cheese (Shredded)

Instructions

Directions:

Garlic Cream Sauce: Melt the butter and olive oil in a saucepan Once the butter is melted, add the minced garlic. Stir. After a minute or two, add in the cream and milk. Stir until it comes to a boil. Add salt, pepper, red pepper flakes, and cheese. Stir until sauce has thickened. Once it has thickened, remove from fire and set aside.
Nachos: Grab your cast iron skillet and add the tortilla chips. Drizzle the garlic cream sauce all over the chips.
Top with the onions, pepperoni, olives, bell pepper, and Colby jack cheese. The best approached is to layer it between tortilla chips so every bit gets plenty of toppings.
Place over the open fire and cover. Cook until the cheese is nice and bubbly and the veggies are warm, about 5-8 minutes.

Nutrition

Calories: 580kcal (29%)

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Andrea Wyckoff says
April 18, 2016 at 12:10 am
These nachos look sooo delicious!! I love that you made them the perfect campfire food!
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Del says
October 17, 2016 at 6:21 am
Direction for the cream sauce for the Campfire Nachos calls for cheese. The ingredients fails to include cheese as an ingredient. Please advise idea seems very tasty.
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- Jessica Pinney says
  October 17, 2016 at 7:35 am
  Sorry for the confusion, it is 1/4 cup Parmesan.
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Camping Carol says
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February 11, 2017 at 4:29 pm
Can someone who actually made this tell me how the chips do not get soggy putting a cream sauce on and then heating for sometime until the stuff on the top gets hot. Wanting to check before I spend the time and $. Thx
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Charles Brewer says
March 6, 2017 at 6:11 pm
How many does the recipe serve with the amount of ingedients listed???
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- Jessica Pinney says
  March 6, 2017 at 7:28 pm
  I would say this serves four adults.
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Amy says
March 13, 2017 at 7:10 pm
What do you cover this with to cook? Does your cast iron skillet have a lid?
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- Jessica Pinney says
  March 13, 2017 at 7:20 pm
  Yes, I have a cast iron lid like this.
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L says
March 26, 2017 at 8:27 pm
can you make the cream sauce ahead of time?
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Kathy says
May 8, 2017 at 7:50 pm
I wish I could see all the ingredients and directions but it is covered by the left side banner for pinterest and facebook etc. I can’t even see the left side of this comment box.
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- Jessica Pinney says
  May 8, 2017 at 9:16 pm
  Kathy, try making your browser window larger. I just tried on two different devices and two different browsers and could not replicate your issue. If resizing your browser window doesn’t work, please email me and I will send you the recipe. hello@cookingwithjanica.com
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Geo says
June 26, 2017 at 7:00 pm
Major hit at our group camping trip. We went on a 4 hour kayaking trip, and everybody needed something to eat quick. Pizza nachos hit the spot! I’ll definitely use this again.
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- Jessica Pinney says
  June 26, 2017 at 7:08 pm
  Glad you enjoyed them, sounds like an awesome trip!
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MK says
August 7, 2017 at 9:20 am
Can you substitute the cream with anything else. I never use cream and would hate to buy it just for the one recipe.
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- Jessica Pinney says
  August 7, 2017 at 9:27 am
  You could try using milk, but the sauce will not be the correct consistency and not have as rich a flavor.
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Tina says
September 20, 2017 at 1:38 pm
This was great.
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sharry@ shorisuperstore says
October 23, 2017 at 8:01 am
good article…i cant believe you can use nachos to create a pizaa. awesome.. the instruction when to tell if its alreay cooked is by looking at the cheese.
Where did you buy the cast iron?
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Dominique | Perchance to Cook says
December 5, 2017 at 12:53 pm
Oh wow! This takes camping to a whole other level! I want a bite of these nachos ASAP. They look so delicious!
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Ashley @ Big Flavors from a Tiny Kitchen says
December 5, 2017 at 2:14 pm
These nachos look outrageously good! What a fun way to upgrade camping food – I’ll have to try this the next time my family heads upstate!
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Ben Myhre says
December 6, 2017 at 6:25 am
This looks really good. I am not sure what makes them pizza-ish, but I definitely wouldn’t kick them off my plate. Cheesy Nacho awesomeness!
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Sarah says
December 6, 2017 at 2:07 pm
I’m a little obsessed with campfire meals, and this one is such a great idea! We don’t always have a way to keep cheese cold when we camp, but when we do, we should make this!!
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Sharon Rigsby says
December 7, 2017 at 4:20 pm
What a beautiful place to camp! I suspect that anything would taste good cooked there! However, I love nachos and these look divine! Will have to try this next time we go camping!
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Christine says
December 7, 2017 at 7:31 pm
Yum! Such a great recipe idea. I’ve never tried pizza nachos, but they sound delish!
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Tina says
December 8, 2017 at 7:20 am
I love cooking with cast iron. The cheese really makes this dish, how fun!
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Helene says
December 8, 2017 at 7:57 am
I feel like going camping right away! this does sound like a smart and comforting camp fire food which everyone will enjoy. You got me super inspired right now, I want to plan our next road trip to the Himalayas.
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- Lisa Scott says
  July 9, 2020 at 5:35 pm
  
  Made this in the oven, it was a big hit thank you. Its a keeper
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Abby @ WinsteadWandering says
December 9, 2017 at 4:18 pm
These nachos look beyond incredible, but I fear I’d just eat all the garlic cream sauce with a spoon before I ever got around to making them. What a fun family night recipe!
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Karyl | Karyl's Kulinary Krusade says
December 10, 2017 at 2:17 pm
Oh man, these nachos look so good. I love that you’re using garlic cream sauce instead of regular cheese sauce. Fabulous twist
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Anne Murphy says
December 10, 2017 at 6:56 pm
That sounds amazing!
No campfires in my immediate future – I’m just going to have to make this over a stove… Bet it’ll still be good!
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Julie says
December 11, 2017 at 8:04 am
Welp, I love (LOVE) nachos, and I love pizza, so I’m basically ready to reach through my computer screen and grab a chip. Can’t wait to try these!!
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Mary Bostow says
December 11, 2017 at 2:44 pm
I love these nachos, delicious, quick and easy is the name of the game around here for snacks!
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Gloria Mott says
May 30, 2018 at 3:54 pm
I think I will add mushrooms, maybe some sausage too. It looks divine.
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Nicole says
May 30, 2018 at 9:06 pm
Could you make the cheese sauce ahead of time?
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Joyce says
June 29, 2018 at 2:48 pm
Can the sauce be made ahead of time??
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Lindsey says
July 18, 2018 at 2:48 pm
Asking the same as the others…can the sauce be made ahead of time?
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Dawn says
July 20, 2018 at 6:23 am

My family doesn’t camp but I make this recipe and bake it in the oven at about 400 degreesand i. A 9×13 panda since I do not own a cast iron skillet. This is one of my absolute favorite recipes! The cream sauce is AMAZING!!!!!!! Thank you for sharing the recipe. ?
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- Nadine says
  October 25, 2019 at 10:52 am
  How long did you bake it for?
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Barb says
April 6, 2019 at 9:17 am

I definitely give this a five star! I’ve made it a few times and everybody loves it. I added my own touches by sauteing mushrooms in the butter with the garlic and onions. I also added Italian sausage and only half the pepperoni.
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Jacqueline says
June 24, 2019 at 7:11 pm
Can you make the sauce ahead of time and just heat it up?
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Jen says
January 16, 2020 at 8:37 am

Made this last week and the family loved it!
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Bianca says
August 9, 2020 at 1:33 pm
I see all the questions about people asking if the sauce can be made ahead of time, since this is a campfire recipe. has anyone tried it yet?
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Amy says
March 27, 2023 at 8:05 am
What do you cover the cast iron skillet with?
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Campfire Pizza Nachos Recipes (2024)

Ingredients

Garlic Cream Sauce Ingredients

Nachos Ingredients

Directions

More Camping Recipes

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Campfire Pizza Nachos Recipe

Ingredients

Garlic Cream Sauce Ingredients:

Nacho Ingredients:

Instructions

Directions:

Nutrition

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FAQs

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