Learn how to make the best grilled vegetables! Serve them as a side dish at your next cookout, or top them with a yummy sauce and call them dinner.
Once July rolls around, we make this grilled vegetables recipe just about every week. It’s perfect for mid-late summer, when all sorts of veggies are coming into season, and it’s too hot to turn on the oven. In my opinion, peppers, summer squash, onions, mushrooms, and corn are the best vegetables to grill. Cut into similar-sized pieces and skewered, they all cook at about the same rate. And when you slide them off the skewer, you get a mouthwatering mix of textures and flavors – the mushrooms are meaty, the corn is crisp, the squash is soft, and the peppers and onions are nicely sweet. Drizzled in a punchy sauce, they become a delicious summer meal that you can make in about 20 minutes from start to finish.
How to Make the Best Grilled Vegetables
Want to make perfectly charred, super flavorful grilled vegetables? Check out these tips before you fire up the grill:
- Cut everything to a similar size to ensure even cooking. Plus, you’ll be able to get multiple vegetables (aka more flavor) into each bite!
- Use metal skewers. Wood skewers burn easily on the grill!
- Flip halfway. This one may seem obvious, but it’s important. Good grilled vegetables have a little char on all sides, so make sure you rotate your skewers halfway through cooking. We usually grill ours for around 8 minutes per side.
- Season before and after cooking. To give my grilled vegetables maximum flavor, I season them with olive oil, salt, and pepper before I put them on the grill. Afterwards, I season with salt and pepper to taste and drizzle them with a tasty dressing, sprinkle them with fresh herbs, and serve them with a sauce for dipping.
- Don’t skip the sauce. Grilled veggies are good on their own, but a flavorful sauce can take them over the top. See below for my best suggestions!
Grilled Vegetables Serving Suggestions
Grilled vegetables are a delicious, easy grilling side dish. If you already have the grill going for veggie burgers, mushroom burgers, or black bean burgers, putting on a few grilled veggie kabobs is an easy way to complete the meal. These skewers would also be a perfect side with BBQ Jackfruit Sandwiches, Cauliflower Po’ Boys, or a hearty salad like my couscous, orzo, pasta, or potato salad.
Alternatively, make them the main meal! Drizzle the finished grilled vegetables with tangy Greek salad dressing, cilantro lime dressing, or chimichurri and serve them over quinoa or farro with tzatziki sauce and lots of pita. Not in the mood for tzatziki? Pesto, hummus, or chipotle sauce would be delicious too.
Save leftover grilled vegetables and sauce for making sandwiches throughout the week! Head over to this post to see my best meal prep tips.
More Favorite Grilling Recipes
If you love these easy grilled vegetables, try one of these delicious grilling recipes next:
- Grilled Corn on the Cob
- Lemony Grilled Zucchini
- Mexican Street Corn Salad
- Grilled Avocado with Veggie Ceviche
- Easy Fajitas
- Grilled Asparagus
Grilled Vegetables
Ingredients
- Cooking spray, for the grill
- 1 yellow squash, cut into rounds
- 1 zucchini, cut into rounds
- 8 ounces cremini mushrooms, stemmed
- 1 small red onion, cut into 1-inch pieces
- 1 red bell pepper, cut into 1-inch pieces
- 1 green bell pepper, cut into 1-inch pieces
- 1 ear fresh corn, cut into 1-inch rounds
- Extra virgin olive oil, for drizzling
- Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper
Sauce and dressing options
Instructions
- Heat a grill to medium-high and spray with nonstick cooking spray.
- Thread the vegetables onto 4 metal skewers. Drizzle with olive oil and season with salt and pepper. Grill the skewers for 8 minutes per side, or until the vegetables are tender and lightly charred.
- Remove from the grill, season to taste, and serve with desired sauce or dressing.
It was a lovely recipe to make. The hardest part was getting the corn rounds onto the skewers. I had to use a drill to make holes in the corn wheels to get them onto the skewers!
A drill is actually a good idea!
I just made this and love it! I love all these vegetables and they taste so amazing together. I had them with some tzatziki sauce. Thanks for this amazing recipe!
Thank you. I ❤️ Love ? all your recipes so far your techniques are interesting and delicious love LavenderRose
Delish! Didn’t need the sauce, dieting. We used the bamboo skewers (soaked in water for 30 mins). The corn needed a puncture with a washed screwdriver.
I’m so glad you enjoyed the veggies!
We just pulled out our drill! Delicious!
I love this tray! who makes it?
Thank you in advance for info and yummy recipe 🙂
I love it too! It’s from farmhouse pottery: https://www.farmhousepottery.com/collections/enamelware/products/seafoam-enamel-tray
This is so nice !
I never though to grill corn like this on kabobs, will have to give this a try before summer ends!
Love this summer recipe idea that takes advantage of all the great veggies that are in season! Will definitely try it soon.