Recipes and Cooking BBQ & Grilling Must-Have Foil Pack Recipes for Grilling Season Learn how to make grilled foil pack recipes (aka hobo packs) for a great taste and easy cleanup. Plus, try our best recipes in foil packs. You no longer have to spend your beautiful summer nights washing dishes or cleaning the grill. By Wini Moranville Wini Moranville Instagram Website Wini Moranville has written about food and wine for leading magazines and websites for more than 20 years—hundreds of those being for Better Homes & Gardens publications, including the iconic New Cook Book. She holds a bachelor's degree in French and English from the University of Iowa; she also studied French at the University Laval in Quebec, Canada. Moranville later studied creative writing at Iowa State University, where she received a master's degree in English and was the recipient of the Pearl Hogrefe Fellowship in Creative Writing.While she's covered just about every food topic imaginable—from bargain wines to fancy desserts—she's most passionate about the easy-yet-inspired everyday French cuisine she's discovered throughout more than twenty summers living and cooking in France. Moranville was a finalist for the Goodreads Choice Award, Best Food & Cookbooks 2019, for The Little Women Cookbook. Her book, Everyday French Cooking: Modern French Cuisine Made Simple, will be published by Harvard Common Press in 2022. Back home in the Great Midwest, her local Aldi supermarket is her happy place. Learn about BHG's Editorial Process Updated on May 26, 2022 Share Tweet Pin Email We love foil packs for their wrap-it and cook-it ease (not to mention the fast cleanup—even faster than one-pan recipes because zero pans are required). We also appreciate the way cooking foil packs on the grill keeps what's inside moist and flavorful. Just about anything you can cook on a grill can be grilled in a foil pack, including meat, fish, vegetables, and seafood. Make these grilled foil pack meals to enjoy throughout grilling season. Andy Lyons How to Make Foil Packs Use these three steps as your master plan for making all kinds of foil packs for dinner. Entrées, side dishes, and even desserts all follow these basic guidelines. 1. Precook if Needed Cooking hobo packs on the grill is easiest when you choose ingredients that require the same amount of cooking time. That way you can wrap all ingredients together and toss them on the grill. However, some ingredients in foil pack grilling recipes will take longer to cook than others. This is often true with potatoes, which you may have to precook if you're wrapping them up with other quicker-cooking ingredients such as fish. Related: No-Chop Recipes You Can Make on Even Your Busiest Weeknights 2. Divide Food Among Foil Sheets Place one portion of the recipe in the center of a foil sheet that's been cut to the size directed in your recipe. Often, recipes will call for at least a 12-inch square sheet of foil to make foil packs. Blaine Moats 3. Wrap and Grill To wrap and seal your hobo foil pack, bring up two opposite edges of foil; seal with a double fold. Fold the remaining edges together to enclose, leaving space for steam to build. Grill as directed in your recipe. Grilled Foil Pack Recipes 01 of 05 Grilled Foil-Pack Philly Cheesesteak Hash View Recipe We'll start with our current favorite, grilled steak and potato foil packs. It's our favorite because your entire meal is inside. No need to worry about cooking up veggie kabobs or other grilled side dishes. Plus, cheese. You can never go wrong when you add a slice of cheese. 02 of 05 Luau BBQ Chicken Foil Packs View Recipe Matthew Clark Sure, grilled chicken is great, but pineapple chicken foil packs add an enticing tropical twist to your grilled dinner. With plenty of veggies packed inside, simply add a side of grilled bread or another starch to round out the meal. 03 of 05 Red Snapper and Vegetables View Recipe Scott Little Here's one of those foil pack dinner ideas we mentioned earlier where a bit of precooking comes in handy. Even though you're cutting tiny new potatoes into quarters, the snapper still cooks much faster. Use the recipe directions for cooking potatoes in the microwave before adding to the foil packs. 04 of 05 Lemon-Veggie Foil Pack View Recipe Andy Lyons Sprinkle your favorite veggies with lemon-pepper seasoning and wrap in foil for a perfectly grilled and smoked side dish of veggies. 05 of 05 Pineapple Berry Hobo Pack View Recipe Blaine Moats This five-ingredient dessert recipe will convince you that grilled fruit can indeed constitute dessert. For those with an even bigger sweet tooth, serve the fruit mixture over slices of pound cake or with a scoop of ice cream. Was this page helpful? Thanks for your feedback! Tell us why! Other Submit