Chicken Bacon Ranch Foil Packets on the Grill (So Easy/ So Delicious)

Five minutes of prep, 20 minutes of cooking, and you are eating large almost anywhere, and yes, that includes camping. We received a request. My wife and I attended a music festival, Bonnaroo, do you know it? Yeah. Is it big? Yeah, it's huge, it's in Tennessee. Oh, with 80,000 of our closest friends each year, a limited cooking resources, small butane-powered cooktop, cooler lice, a boiler, boiler? What's a boiler? Cooler lice? No, no, no, a cooler with ice, comma, boiler. Cooler lice. And a skillet are all we bring. Our go-to breakfast is peanut butter bagel with honey. It's okay, relatively healthy too. Lunch is usually suddenly salad, PB&J sandwich, or canned chicken tacos. Can we have a conversation about canned chicken? Anything? Dinner from one of the food trucks, which includes $20 hot dogs and $10 lemonade. Perhaps an episode challenge for cheap, easy, and good recipes to be cooked using limited camping resources. Thanks for any ideas. Lyle and Amy Wallace, Collinsville, MS. Mississippi? Mississippi. Lyle and Amy, we can do this because it's you, and because we can't have you eating canned effing chicken tacos. MS might be Missouri. What's MS, Chance? I don't know. I'm Canadian still, mostly. MI might be, oh no, MS is Mississippi. Mississippi. No canned chicken tacos. So here's what we're doing. We're doing chicken bacon ranch foil packets. Damn it. That's what we're doing. And here's why I like this. You can have this all prepped before you leave Collinsville, Mississippi. You throw it in your cooler, because you said there was a cooler with ice. Then all you do is heat the grill, drop it on, 20 minutes later, Bob's your uncle and you're eating large, and you get back to Bonnaroo. What kind of music? All kinds. All kinds of music. Country? No country. No country, so not all kinds. Maybe some country. Maybe some kind, not all kinds, apparently. It's like a Coachella lineup. A Coachella lineup. Will they let me in? Yes. You should see his face. He wouldn't let me in. All right, so we're gonna do this. Seriously, prep, five minutes. Cooking time, 20 minutes, done. You'll be so damn happy. So damn happy. Here we go. Let's go, let's go, let's go, boys. So, chicken bacon ranch would require chicken, as you can imagine, but before we poison the deck with the chicken, let's cut the vegetables. Here's what I'm using. Jalapenos, long red peppers. They're not too hot. And yellow onion. And this bowl is where this stuff will go. So, the long guys, like this. And these, I'm just gonna cut like this. So, we're making two of these. Let's see. Maybe one of these will be enough. And they're not so hot, so leave the seeds. This goes in the bowl. And now jalapenos. The jalapenos, though, probably don't want the seeds, so let's just do this. Let me just get the seeds out. And because they're not that big, I will put two in. If you get a little seed left, it's no big deal. Unless, like, your Aunt Susie is absolutely against any seasoning. And then she's probably not eating these anyway, so you're fine. These guys we'll cut similar to the reds across. And in these go the onion. Break it up as you put it in. You don't need these giant pieces. Sweet, now the chicken. So, this is slightly more than eight ounces. Four ounces per packet is pretty good. So, we're gonna cut this into bite-sized pieces. You know, when they're camping at Bonnaroo, they don't wanna drag out the knife to deal with this if they don't have to, so we'll make it easy for them. Come back to the campsite, throw this on, because they've already made it, and get back to the music. You never went to a music festival back in your day? I don't think they had music festivals back in my day. I'm trying to think. Woodstock? Woodstock, that wasn't my day. Not, well. I'm not, no, I was too young. No, you were only 10 then, yeah. I was a baby. I missed out on everything, God. I was too young to go then, now I'm too old to go to this shit. And no, I did not go to Old F***ing Chela, just because they were calling it that and I didn't want to say that I went, because that would have made me old. Now I'm upset. I must continue. This is not about me, this is about Lyle and Amy. And saving them from the canned chicken tacos. Who's had canned chicken? Never. I know it's a thing. I think Costco sells a shit ton of it. Okay, let me just clean this, and then a couple other things to add. So here's our beautiful work so far. We're gonna add a few things to it. The first will be some shredded cheddar cheese, about a half a cup. This is four slices of thick cut bacon, cooked. It's just not gonna be in the packet long enough to cook by itself, but I have not cooked it to super crispy, because that's my favorite way to have it. This is a quarter of a cup of cream cheese. So I think the way to do this, and pardon my hands, is just drop little knobs of it in here. This is all gonna get mixed. And this will add a beautiful creaminess. Beautiful. We have to season a bit, so I've got a big clove of garlic we'll add. Beautiful. Little pinch of salt and pepper. Not too much, because coming up next is our ranch seasoning powder. And it's pretty salty, but you do want some traditional salt. Scatter this over. And this is about two thirds of an ounce. Last but not least, you need something to hold all this together. And I was going to use oil, and then I had a better idea. This bacon grease, which is essentially oil that was a result of the bacon cooking. I'm gonna use this. Let's amplify that bacon part of the bacon ranch, make this better. And you'll see I may need a little extra oil too. And this we will mix. If there's big chunks of onion, just give them a break. Okay, I'm gonna go with just another sort of half a tablespoon. Oil. That looks better. Foil packet time. All right, you got a couple choices. We're not pimping this company. Just gonna show you something. You don't want your stuff to stick. So you have a choice. If you use traditional foil, I would spray it. Or you could use this non-stick. There's two sides. One is stick, and one is non-stick. I'll use this one though. You want two fairly long pieces, and I like to double it over. Beautiful. My spray. Nothing's gonna stick on this, damn it. Lyle and Amy, I got your back. And now we just take half of this, because we're making two, and in we go. Great. It doesn't have to be an absolute single flat level thing, but if it's stacked up like this, you get the idea the stuff on the top is not gonna cook very well. So do this with it. How beautiful does that look? And now we want a good seal. So the top comes over on both sides, and then we're gonna do a couple folds so the steam stays in. Like this. One more. Nice and tight. Find your edge. Corners get folded. Same on this side. And when it's nice like this, just do the other one. And that's it. Two packets. Now we go to the grill. And it's as easy as this. One and two. It's gonna take probably 20 minutes. Not much more than that. Just to keep a little extra heat in. I'm gonna put a cap on them, like this. Of course you could open it up. At the 20 minute mark, check your chicken. You know what it should look like. You know you want about 160 to 165. See you on the other side. And it's time. You see, it's puffed up a bit. This guy, for sure. Let's take him off. Oh, man. Oh. Could've used a glove. I will next time. But let's go open him up. Here we are. I choose this big boy. Aye yi yi. All right, let's do this, shall we? I suppose there's the option of waiting, right? Let it cool down a bit. But why would I do that? We're all ready. Now we open up. And voila. Okay, I can tell you right now what this is missing. Like some amazing bread. Look at this sauce down here. Mm, you know how good that's gonna be? Of course you could put any vegetables you want in there. Potatoes would be a good option. Mushrooms, probably a good option. Though they might get too soft and I don't know if you want that. Listen, Lyle and Amy, whatever you wanna do, you can. You could serve this on rice. You could get those boiled packets of rice. Just throw it in hot water, boiling water. You do have a boiler, you said, so maybe use it for that. You know what I think you could also do? You could take a long baguette, cut it in half, pull out the extra bread and drop this in the middle of it. Now you've got a great sandwich. That you could hold in one hand and dance your faces off to who's ever on the main stage at Barnaroo. You know, I'm always talking about the smell that comes off of stuff we make. This is absolutely no exception. The ranch, the garlic, little clumps of melty cream cheese with little strands of cheddar on top. I'm telling you, it made a gorgeous little sauce that I want to dip bread into. So get some bacon and some chicken. I needed some vegetables too. You mentioned everything that they could've done with this. How about Chicken Bacon Ranch Tacos, not out of the can? Wow, there you go. Okay, you guys heard. Lyle, Amy, this is your new taco. Holy shit. Let's go. And we, so happy to be eating. It is so perfectly cooked. Bacon ranch on the grill. Don't got a grill? Do it in the oven, no sweat. Probably 350 degrees, I don't know. Try it, open it up if it's not done. Oh my gosh. All of this, the cream cheese in here is fantastic. Little sharpness from the cheddar. The ranch perfumes everything. Beautiful. Okay, I want to take another bite and I can't because somebody behind that camera gets really upset when I have two bites. So I'm just gonna say, thanks for hanging out. One of those knives could be yours. We're gonna choose a person every video this year, put their name like here. But the key is, your name will only show up there if you're a what Chance? Subscriber. Subscriber, that's right. Chance is on his toes today. Hit the like button, let us know what you want to see us make. Just like Lyle and Amy, they asked for like simple, easy camping food. And I think we delivered in a big ******* way.