Grilled Summer Vegetables

Food Ingredients:
Asparagus spears small carrots Eggplant Fennel Sweet peppers Leeks New potatoes Baby zucchini or regular zucchini Olive oil, melted margarine, or melted butter

Recipe preparation:
1 Before grilling, rinse, trim, cut up, and precook vegetables as directed in “Preparations and Timings for Grilled Vegetables”. To precook any one vegetable, in a saucepan bring a small amount of water to boiling; add desired vegetable and simmer, covered, for the time specified. Drain well. 2 To grill, brush vegetables with olive oil, margarine, or butter before grilling to prevent sticking to grill rack. Cook vegetables on the grill rack directly over medium-hot coals until tender and slightly charred, turning occasionally. Use the following timings as a guide. (Actual timings will differ depending on thickness of vegetables, how hot the coals are, and how far the vegetables are form the coals.) 3 Preperation and Timings for Grilled Vegetables: 4 Asparagus: Snap off and discard tough bases and stems. Precook 2 minutes, then tie asparagus in bundles of 3 or 4 spears with strips of cooked green onion tops. Grill bundles 3 to 5 minutes or until vegetables are of desired doneness. 5 Small carrots: Cut off carrot tops; wash and peel. Precook 3 minutes. Grill 3 to 5 minutes. 6 Eggplant: Cut off top and blossom ends. Cut crosswise into 3/4-inch-thick slices. Do not precook. Grill 6 to 8 minutes. 7 Fennel: Snip off feathery leaves. Cut off stems. Precook whole bulbs 8 minutes. Cut bulbs into 6 to 8 wedges and grill 8 to 10 minutes. 8 Sweet Peppers: Remove stems. Quarter peppers and remove seeds with membranes. Cut peppers into 1-inch-wide strips. Do not precook. Grill 8 to 10 minutes. 9 Leeks: Cut off green tops; trim bulb roots and remove 1 or 2 layers of white skin. Precook 6 to 10 minutes, then halve leeks lengthwise and grill 5 minutes or until tender. 10 New Potatoes: Halve potatoes. Precook 10 minutes or until almost tender. Grill 10 to 12 minutes. 11 Yellow squash (crockneck or straightneck) or zucchini: Wash; cut off ends. Cut each vegetable lengthwise into strips. Do not precook. Grill 6 to 8 minutes. 12 Comments: It seems that these days no cookout is complete without grilled vegetables. Serve them as a side dish for grilled fish or meat, or as an appetizer.

Recipe source: Foodista recipe