Now a 100% carnivore diet is fantastic, just not sure how sustainable it is in the long run. I would love nothing more than to eat some BBQ meat every meal. So to balance us out a little and still get the joy that we all love when BBQing here is a list of the 5 must cook vegetable options for your BBQ.
Some of these ideas may also be good options if you need to prepare your next bbq for a vegetarian guest.
Good vegetarian BBQ recipes can be quite challenging to find but they are out there. As a non-vegetarian, I have found a couple of suitable recipes that have blown me away in terms of flavours.
Potatoes
Such a staple in all sorts of cuisines and across a lot of cultures. They are inexpensive and with a little experimentation are absolutely delicious done on the BBQ.
Potatoes are super versatile on the BBQ, one of my favourite ways to do them quickly is to peel them and then with the peeler make really thin slices across the potato so that it forms super thin chips. With some oil on the hotplate “fry” them until they are super crisp. Delicious. Even tastier if the oil on the hotplate is from a fatty burger or sausage – Yum.
But your options to cook potatoes on the BBQ are almost endless. Just a plain baked potato, wrapped in foil and placed around the grill till cooked through. Try Hasselback potatoes, always a delicious treat.
Don’t forget the humble sweet potato – delicious. Here is my stuffed sweet potato recipe.
Here is a couple of my favourited tasty examples.
Onions
Almost a default option in Australia, especially when having a sausage sizzle. Who could avoid the recent blow up about the famous Bunnings sausage sizzle drama
One of my favourite ways to cook onion on the bbq at the moment is to slice the onion into 10 mm sections and let them fry off in a spot on the hotplate that is not too hot and allow them to develop good colour. If there is some oil on the plate “splash” this over the top to also cook from the top. If not just carefully flip ½ way through the cooking process. Once flipped I like to place some brown sugar on top. This caramelises and adds an unexpected flavour profile.
You can also do bacon wrapped onion bombs, or any of these other delicious looking examples.
Corn
Fresh corn on the cob cooked over charcoal and add just a little bit of char – YUM. Add some salt and melted butter for the ultimate taste. Well, that is my favourite way to have corn. Just let your imagination run, use some of these for inspiration. I especially like the look of the recipe from Jess Pryles
Stuffed Capsicums
Looking for a change? Make up your favourite mincemeat combination and stuff it into capsicums and let it smoke away for a while. Simple and pretty quick to cook. Get that something a little different at your next BBQ. If you have a taste for chilli you could also venture into the stuffed jalapeno poppers these things are a flavour explosion just looking for somewhere to happen.
Some real bell ringers here for inspiration.
Large stuffed mushrooms
Now I gotta say me and mushrooms are not the best of friends. I can not stand the taste of them, brings back some bad memories from when I was younger….
BUT my wife loves them and they are pretty easy to knock up on the bbq.
Obviously, there is a world of options available and you are only limited to what you can imagine and what is in season or available from your local fruit and vegetable store.
I only recommend that you get out there and experiment with different flavour combinations and most importantly enjoy the process.
Till next time Joe On !!!
