Easy Grilled Veggie Skewers With Marinade
Our Grilled Veggie Skewers are easy to prep and flavor packed with a simple olive oil, garlic powder, and real salt marinade that brings out the best vegetable flavor. These veggie kabobs are layered with zucchini, red onion, mushrooms, and bell peppers and then grilled to perfection. Load up your favorite veggies onto a skewer and enjoy this easy summer side dish with your family and friends this summer.
Easy Grilled Veggie Skewers With Marinade
Easy grilled veggie kabobs with a simple marinade for the best grilled veggie side dish, loaded with summer flavor.
Ingredients
- 1 Large Zucchini
- 1 Bell Pepper, any color
- 1 Red Onion
- 8 oz. White Mushrooms
- 4 Tablespoons Olive Oil
- 1 teaspoon Real Salt
- 1/4 teaspoon Garlic Powder
- 1/8 teaspoon Ground Black Pepper
Instructions
- Begin by soaking 8 wooden skewers in water for at least 15-30 minutes. This will help skewers not to burn.
- Next, slice veggies making sure each variety is sliced to about the same size so that they will cook evenly. Quarter onion and separate layers, chop pepper into 1"x1" pieces, halve or quarter mushrooms depending on their size, and slice zucchini into 1/2" rounds. Add all vegetables to a large mixing bowl.
- Add 4 tablespoons olive oil, 1 teaspoon salt, 1/4 teaspoon garlic powder, and 1/8 teaspoon ground black pepper to the vegetables and stir to coat vegetables evenly. Cover the vegetables and allow the vegetables to marinate for 15-30 minutes on the counter before skewering.
- After vegetables have marinated, skewer the vegetables on the skewers. I like to begin and end with a pepper or an onion to hold everything together. Alternate vegetables on the skewer making sure to slide them close together because they will shrink slightly as they cook.
- Preheat grill and then grill vegetable kabobs on medium high-high heat until the vegetable skewers are slightly charred and cooked to your preference. Make sure to rotate them often so that each side gets a nice grilled char. This process takes around 15-20 minutes depending on which vegetables you used in this recipe.
- Serve grilled vegetable skewers immediately with your favorite grilled or smoked dishes.
Our Favorite Grilled Vegetable Summer Side Dish
There is just something so wonderful about summertime. We try to do as much outdoors as possible to enjoy the warm sunshine, summer breezes, and gorgeous views. If we can, we cook outside on the grill as much as possible too! Not just because of the delicious flavor but also because it makes cleanup a breeze! The whole family can gather around outside while supper is cooking.
With lots of garden produce coming in, vegetable kabobs on the grill can be a great opportunity to use up those veggies in a way everyone will love. Take Zucchini for instance. It’s an incredibly easy veggie to grow (if you can beat the squash bugs) but sometimes there’s only so much sautéed zucchini you can stomach. Grilling zucchini changes everything! Especially when you pair it with a few other delicious veggies!!
Key features in these Grilled Vegetable Kabobs:
- Versatile! Practically any vegetable can be grilled. Load up these veggie kabobs with your favorite vegetables. Vegetables that grill well include zucchini, mushrooms, onions, and bell peppers. Some people enjoy grilling cherry tomatoes, corn, or pineapple as well!
- We love marinating the vegetables before grilling them to keep the vegetables flavorful and juicy on the inside with a perfect grilled char on the outside.
- An easy 4 ingredient marinade for grilled veggies: We like to keep things uncomplicated around here. Our olive oil, garlic powder, ground black pepper and real salt marinade is the perfect veggie marinade to enhance the vegetable flavor before grilling.
- An easy summer side dish you can cook outside! We prefer to do as much cooking outside as possible during the summer months. Grilled vegetable skewers take hardly any prep work for a simple grilled side dish.
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Ingredients in our Grilled Veggie Skewer Recipe:
- Zucchini
- Red Onion
- Bell Peppers – red, yellow, orange, or green
- Mushrooms
- Olive Oil
- Garlic Powder
- Ground Black Pepper
- Real Salt
Step-by-Step Instructions For How To Make Vegetable Skewers On The Grill
Begin by soaking 8 wooden skewers in water for at least 15-30 minutes. This will help skewers not to burn. Next, slice veggies making sure each variety is sliced about the same size so that they will cook evenly. Add all vegetables into a large mixing bowl.
Add 4 tablespoons olive oil, 1 teaspoon salt, 1/4 teaspoon garlic powder, and 1/8 teaspoon ground black pepper to the vegetables and stir to coat vegetables evenly. Cover the vegetables and allow the vegetables to marinate for 15-30 minutes on the counter before skewering.
After vegetables have marinated, skewer the vegetables onto the skewers. Preheat grill on medium high – high heat. Grill vegetable kabobs until the vegetable skewers are slightly charred and cooked to your preference. Make sure to rotate skewers often so that each side gets a nice grilled char. This process takes around 15-20 minutes depending on which vegetables you used in this recipe.
