These grilled vegetable skewers can be made all year round. Easy to make and with a delicious tangy balsamic marinade they make a great quick healthy meal!
Folks, these tasty grilled vegetable skewers go a long way to helping you get your daily fix of essential vitamins and minerals!
Packed with tons of flavour, in this recipe I'm serving these rainbow veggies as a main course dinner.
However, they could easily be served up for lunch or a side dish to any meal too!
This is a completely vegan skewers recipe too.
My previous two skewers recipes were made with meat. Scroll down to see the links for those below.
So this meat free skewers dinner is perfect for those who do not eat meat or indeed for those who are looking to cut down on their meat consumption and perhaps follow a more healthy Mediterranean diet instead.
These are grilled vegetable skewers. Grilled indoors. There is no need to go and haul your BBQ out of your shed.
This I know will be good news to those of us who might have to dig our garden sheds out of a snow drift in winter!
However if you are handy with a spade, or are making these in summer they are also suitable for barbequing.
I've used an selection of vegetables which should be easy for you to get from your local supermarket at any time of the year.
However feel free to try out or substitute my suggested vegetables with others like yellow peppers, slices of aubergine or carrots.
The tangy balsamic marinade is also easy to make and made from scratch from basic kitchen store cupboard items.
That balsamic marinade is so simple but it makes these grilled vegetables skewers sing!
How To Prepare Vegetable Skewers
- If you’re using wooden skewers first soak them in warm water for at least 30 minutes to prevent them from burning.
- Then place the marinade ingredients into a large bowl and mix well. Season to taste with the salt and pepper.
- Add the prepared vegetables to the marinade and ensure they are well coated. Leave for 15 minutes.
- Thread the marinated vegetables onto the skewers in an equal pattern.
- How to grill vegetable skewers? Place the skewers on a rack on your grill pan. Put the pan under a hot grill about ¾ of the way from the top.
- How long to grill vegetable skewers? About 15 - 20 minutes. Make sure to turn the skewers at least every 4-5 minutes until cooked equally on all sides.
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Grilled Vegetable Skewers Recipe
If you're wondering what to serve with vegetable skewers I suggest a light side salad.
We love our grilled vegetables stuffed inside pita breads. Simply cut a pita bread in half, pull each half open to form a pocket and fill with your delicious veggies. Yum!
I’d love to hear what you think of my recipe in the comments below and please do rate my recipe 5* if you like it! 🙂
Grilled Vegetable Skewers Recipe
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Ingredients
For the Marinade: -
- 2 tablespoon olive oil
- 3 cloves garlic crushed
- 1 tablespoon balsamic vinegar
- ½ teaspoon dried oregano
- ½ teaspoon dried basil
- Freshly ground salt and pepper
Vegetables: -
- 200 g button mushrooms
- 12 cherry tomatoes
- 1 red pepper cut into squares
- 1 green pepper cut into squares
- 1 red onion cut into squares
- 1 courgette (zucchini), cut into ¼-inch slices
Instructions
- If you’re using wooden skewers (6 are needed) soak them in warm water to prevent them from burning.
- Place the marinade ingredients into a large bowl and mix well. Season to taste with the salt and pepper.
- Then add all the vegetables to the marinade and mix well together. Allow to sit for 15 minutes.
- Thread the mushrooms, cherry tomatoes, peppers, onion and courgette slices onto 6 skewers.
- Place a sheet of aluminium foil on a grill pan*, then place the skewers on a rack in your grill pan and place the pan under a hot grill about ¾ of the way from the top.
- Turn the skewers at least every 4-5 minutes whilst grilling to ensure each side gets the same amount of cooking. Grill for 15 - 20 minutes.
Ben|Havocinthekitchen
Grilled vegetable skewers in October? Are you trying to hold on summer as long as possible, Neil? I don't mint at all! It's a good reminder that the cold seasons won't be forever (Just around 8-9 months in some places haha), and we can enjoy summer days again. Delicious!
Neil
Yes Ben, I confess you are completely correct. I am grilling my vegetable skewers and trying to hold on to summer. I fear I'm too late though. Today its cold and the heating is on......
David @ Spiced
I will stubbornly continue to grill until I have to pull out the snow shovel to get to the grill. That's when I call it quits. But I'm happy to know that I'll just turn back indoors with this delicious skewer recipe! We're always looking for tasty side dishes to serve alongside our grilled meats. Pass me a skewer, please!
Neil
Delighted to help you grill all year round David! This is the perfect side to a grilled meat dish. Especially chicken! 🙂
Mimi
I just love these! A simple but flavorful marinade makes such a difference. I love the oregano as well. A perfect accompaniment to just about anything!
Neil
Thanks Mimi. I tried to keep the marinade as simple as possible. I love getting the maximum flavours you can out of minimal ingredients. 🙂
Kelly | Foodtasia
Neil, these vegetable skewers look beautiful and delicious! Perfect for encouraging the family to eat more veggies. I grill year round - even in the snow! I'll have to stick a couple of these tasty skewers on next time!
Neil
I knew there were some dedicated people out there grilling all year round Kelly! Ha ha! I bet these taste even better on a snowy day though!
Laura
Grilled Vegetables for dinner sounds absolutely superb, Neil! I love the marinade you used and love the mix of veggies, too! These make a perfect lunch, dinner, or filling for a morning omelet! Nice!
Neil
Filling a morning omlette with these grilled vegetable skewers sounds like a delicious idea Laura. I must try that. Thanks for the suggestion!
Matt - Total Feasts
I saw the pictures of these and just had to change my grocery shopping list. I love good grilled vegetables. I imagine these would be brilliant on their own or even in a great salad. Look delicious!
Neil
Fantastic Matt! Yes these are brilliant on their own or in a salad. I confess to just grilling these skewers, putting all the cooked veggies in a bowl and sitting eating them with a fork. Yum!
GiGi Eats
Grilled vegetables are my FAVORITE way to eat vegetables!!! SO I would probably devour about 6 of these skewers!
Neil
Poor Landon GiGi. What's he going to eat? 😉
Marissa
Even though we're headed into fall, we're still grilling whenever we have a sunny day. Love these veggie skewers and would gladly make a meal of them!
Neil
It's the thing I miss most when its not sunny Marissa. For us its just too cold to grill outside. That's why I put together this recipe. I'm jealous you're still able to grill outside!
Ron
Veggie skewers marinated in a Balsamic sauce sounds just fine to me. I love that you used an indoor cooking method, although I bet they're great of the old grill. Thanks for sharing.
Neil
I'd far rather do them on the outdoor BBQ Ron. But if I can't (which is mostly now as its cold and wet) the indoor grill will have to do. 🙂
Katerina
They look perfect for any season, in my view! And any picky eaters, big or small, will find something they like here.
Neil
Absolutely Katerina. The veggies can be whatever you choose so could suit those picky eaters as you say! 🙂