3 gorgeous Vegan BBQ recipes

As the battle to re-balance the climate continues, more of us are turning Vegan. It used to be an eccentric choice, now it’s mainstream. You might be Vegan yourself, or have Vegan friends and family. Either way you’ll want to tickle their taste-buds as well as delight the vegetarians and meat-eaters in your life. Here are three gorgeous Vegan BBQ recipes for you, fresh from the BBC Good Food website, each with an added twist from the food-loving Chimineashop team.

Beautiful Vegan BBQ recipes to make your mouth water

First off in our list of Vegan BBQ recipes, prepare your eating gear for an unusual yet awesome sweet and savoury flavour combination.

Sophie Goodwin’s Vegan kebabs with avocado dressing

• Mix 3 tablespoons of oil with 2 crushed garlic cloves, some chilli flakes, and rosemary
• Skewer chunks of mushroom, peach, courgette and red onion
• Brush them with the oil
• Add seasoning to taste
• Blend an avocado with the juice of half a lemon juice and 50ml water to make a smooth dressing
• Season the dressing as you wish
• Whisk the juice from the other half of your lemon with half a tablespoon of mixed olive oil and mustard
• Toss mixed rocket salad and some toasted seeds in
• Heat the BBQ to the hottest setting
• Grill the skewers for 4-5 mins on each side or until cooked through
• Serve with the dressing and salad

Our tip? To make a really big meal of it, serve the kebabs with skinny or chunky chips fried in sesame oil, adding a sprinkling of sesame seeds for even more flavour.

Georgina Fuggle’s BBQ stuffed peppers

This is a really lovely, hearty Vegan BBQ treat. Non-Vegans love it, too!

• Cook 120g buckwheat
• Heat 2 tablespoons of olive oil at medium heat
• Add 2 sliced medium sized red onions and cook them until they’re starting to go soft
• Add a small crushed clove of garlic and one and a half teaspoons of za’atar
• Cook for another minute
• Stir in a tablespoon of soft light brown sugar
• Cook for three minutes
• Stir in 2 tablespoons of red wine vinegar
• Add your caramelised onions to the buckwheat and mix it all up
• Add the remaining olive oil, 20g toasted pistachios, 20g toasted, roughly chopped hazelnuts, three finely chopped medjool dates, and some chopped parsley
• Wrap three large red peppers in foil, each in its own package, and BBQ them for 20 minutes
• Cut the top off the peppers, leaving a bit attached to give you a lid
• Take the seeds out and stuff the peppers with the buckwheat mix
• Garnish with parsley

Our tip? Add an extra dimension to this wonderful recipe with 2023’s best Vegan cheeses. Vegan cheese used to taste dreadful. It’s been quite a challenge to get the flavour, texture and behaviour right. But there are some very tasty choices coming onto the market thanks to rocketing demand.

The BBC Good Food Team’s hot and spicy sweet potatoes

The beauty of this recipe is, it suits Vegans, vegetarians, pescatarians and meat-eaters. Make this as a side dish or a main, and check out our tip at the end.

• Peel two large sweet potatoes
• Cut them crosswise into 2.5cm thick slices
• Lie each potato on its own sheet of foil, keeping the slices together
• Drizzle each sliced potato with olive oil
• Sprinkle on some fresh thyme leaves and half a chopped chilli
• Season generously
• Use your fingers to work the oil, thyme, chilli and seasoning into every slice
• Re-assemble the slices into whole potatoes
• Garnish with a sprig of thyme and some chopped chilli
• Wrap each potato in its own foil parcel
• Bake them over the hottest part of your BBQ for 45 minutes, until the potatoes are cooked

Our tip? Serve them as they are for Vegans and vegetarians, or with a beautifully barbecued chunks of fish or meat. Then make an exotic salad for extra excitement.

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