Grilled Vegetables
Grilled Vegetable Kabobs
These vegetable kabobs look wonderful because of the red, green and yellow colors and they taste pretty good too. The pineapple chunks are a clever ingredient to use. Their texture ensures they stay on the skewers and their sweetness and stickiness goes perfectly with the vegetables.
If you are using wooden skewers, don't forget to soak them in water for a couple of hours before threading the vegetables, else they might catch fire on the grill. You can do this while you are marinating the vegetables in the vinaigrette. These vegetable kabobs can be served as a side dish with any meat or fish or as part of a vegetarian dish.
Grilled Skewered Veggies
Ingredients -
1/2 pound Baby Portobello Mushroom Caps
1 1/2 pounds Small Zucchini, cut into 1-inch slices
12 to 16 Cherry Tomatoes
Italian Vinaigrette or Dressing for Marinating
9 to 12 Pineapple Chunks
Preparation:
Wash mushroom caps. Place mushrooms, sliced zucchini, and cherry tomatoes in marinade. Let marinate in refrigerator for at least 4 hours.
Drain vegetables, reserving marinade. Thread vegetables alternately with pineapple onto skewers. Cook on grill over medium heat for about 10 minutes, turning occasionally and basting with reserved marinade.
May be served on the large skewers themselves for a less formal meal or striped and served in a serving dish for more formal meals. Or an alternative is to get long wooden skewer sticks like used in Oriental Restaurants for serving Teriyaki Beef or Chicken made up as individual servings and served as a side dish to guest for a more personal approach.
(Serves 4)
A Picture of multi color grilled vegetable kabobs you can vary the ingredients in this recipe as many vegetables grill wonderfully and make excellent vegetable kabobs.
Kabob
Pronounced: (kà bobÆ), n.
Most often, kabobs. small pieces of meat or seafood seasoned or marinated and grill, often with tomatoes, green peppers, onions, or other vegetables, on some kind of skewer. Can also be strictly vegetarian made up of all vegetables. Best used with firm hard vegetables as they stand up to cooking better.