Garlic Butter Vegetable Skewers

Name: Garlic Butter Vegetable Skewers
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 25 min
Total time: 35 min
Ingredients: new potatoes, whole; white button mushrooms, whole; zucchini, sliced thick; yellow squash, sliced thick; red onion, cut into 2 inch portions; sweet bell peppers, cut into 2 inch portions; 3 cloves of garlic, finely minced; 1/2 cup of butter; 1 tablespoon of dried parsley; a pinch of salt and black pepper

June 5, 2021

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Vegetable skewers are a fun, colorful way to easily serve a variety of vegetables together. Combining different types of vegetables on one skewer creates a collection of flavors and textures that celebrate how unique each vegetable really is. Potatoes add an earthiness, onions add a bit of sharpness, mushrooms have their own unique heartiness, red and orange bell peppers add a bit of sweetness and zucchini brings a certain richness and soaks up the flavors of whatever you season your skewers with very well. I could go on and on, but it doesn’t matter which vegetables you use, just pick out your favs and your skewers will taste wonderful!

Whether you are planning a cookout and need an efficient way to cook lots of veggies or you have several “singles” in your refrigerator and are looking for a way to bring them together into one fabulous dish, vegetable skewers are a simple, delicious way to enjoy your veggies.

Let’s get them started…

Technically, almost any vegetable will work on a skewer, but today I am using red and orange sweet bell peppers, red onion, zucchini, yellow squash, small new potatoes and white button mushrooms. I leave the little potatoes and mushrooms whole, as they are about the same size and cut everything else into portions close to their sizes as well.

These vegetable skewers will be brushed with garlic butter, so the vegetables do not need to be seasoned ahead of time, just start alternating the pieces onto metal or bamboo skewers…

There are no rules when it comes to the order of your vegetables. Just slide them onto the skewers and admire the beautiful colors. Once you have comprised your skewers, set them aside for now.

In a small saucepan, combine 1/2 cup of butter with 3 minced garlic cloves, a pinch of salt and black pepper and 1 tablespoon of dried parsley. Place the saucepan over medium heat and cook until the butter is melted.

Once the garlic butter is ready to go, place a griddle or grill pan over medium high heat…

Place the skewers down onto the hot grill pan and brush with garlic butter. Cook the skewers, rotating them when they begin to develop color and continuing the brush with garlic butter until the potatoes are tender and the peppers and onions have developed a bit of charring on their edges.

My skewers took about 25 minutes, but the time will depend on the size of your potatoes. Check to see if they are ready by sliding a sharp knife into the widest part of the largest potato and once that potato is tender, everyone else should be ready to go!

In addition to being easy to transport, vegetable skewers can be enjoyed immediately or a little closer to room temperature, so you don’t have to worry about timing them perfectly. I am one of those people that heavily prefer my food to be hot (really hot actually), but I love these skewers just warm and if I am at a cook out on a summer day, I wouldn’t even care what their temperature was! They have wonderful flavor from the garlic butter and if you garnish them with a little sprinkle of salt and some finely shredded parmesan, they are truly delicious.

So the next time you have a spare pepper or some little potatoes with no plans to use them, toss them onto a skewer and with a little brush with garlic butter, they will become something special… and we all deserve to be special, right?

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