How Do You Cook Your Veggies on the Grill?

Hi mom-

For me, it depends on the veggie...

Corn on cob, I usually husk...and pack each in foil with butter and salt and pepper...

For zucchini, squash or eggplant, I slice slabs...brush with oil and salt and pepper...and grill.

Other veggies (carrots, brussel sprouts, asparagus, peppers...) I marinate...and have a wire contraption that keeps them in...but 'on' the grill!

Best luck!
michele/cat

Corn - straight onto the grill in husk and shuck it afterward. Most people end up eating it plain / no butter or salt because the husk adds lovely flavor and kernels a bursting juicy and slightly caramelized

Portabello - olive oil kosher salt pepper on the gills for a bit, then cook gills down to start till juicy

Asparagus - drizzle over / marinate 5 min in olive oil S&P. Directly on grill till ends are crispy

Brussels sprouts - marinate in ginger garlic olive and sesame oul and soy sace, upper shelf

Eggplant / Zucchini / squash - cut in half, pierce all over. Olive oil S&P. Grill cut side down. Slice up zucchini and squash after. Eggplant stir with fork into a baba ganoosh type

Carrots & baby or fingerling potatoes - olive oil S&P. directly on upper grill

Cut potatoes - tinfoil pouch or container half closed, w garlic, herbs (like rosemary), onion, etc

Fennel bulb, onion, etc - cut in halves low heat directly on grill OR sliced up in butter in a tinfoil pouch half closed

Leafy greens - tinfoil container w garlic & slt pepper

Tomatoes - direct on until charred

Other fruits (pineapple, peaches, etc.) sliced and charred

Stuffed apples - top shelf, low ish heat

Augratins (potato / cauliflower / etc - tinfoil half open

Peppers - ditto

Stuffed jalapeño : vertically for egg and cheese or cut in half and wrappen in bacon for chev

depends on what they are, but i usually wrap them in tin foil with butter and cook them that way, but things like corn I just put straight on the grill.

It depends. Sometimes we skewer them and cook them like shish kabobs. Sometimes we put them in a tin foil envelope with a little olive oil and seasonings. Other times I put my cast iron skillet on the grill.

I have a sort of basket thing with multiple holes in it made of stainless steel. I haven't used it yet but I can see that it would keep the veggies on the grill. One way to use it is to stir fry in it. Sprinkle olive oil and seasoning on the veggies.

Another way is to get the basket that has a mesh lid on it. Then you just turn it over to get both sides cooked.

ditto jen c. we have also done pineapple on the grill, just slice and place directly on it. it might help if you specified which veggies?

Hubby put the veggies he wants to grill (zuccinis, yellow squash, asparagus) in a foil type boat w/olive oil, salt & pepper.

He grills corn on the cobb in the husk right on the grill.

riley, you rock!
i generally do the tin foil, seasoning and evoo thing, but i sure do love a little grill char. so i'll be stealing ideas from here right and left. thanks for asking this!
:) khairete
S.