Veggie kebab ideas

Hi Azalea ,

That's a lot of hard work .
I've prepared food for Hindu , Muslim and Jewish guests before and it's not easy as you must respect their dietary requirements .

And BBQs take a lot of preparation :
Remember to soak your BBQ skewers.
I slightly oil mine .

If you remove the excess water from tofu then after frying to harden them - you can put them on skewers .
They need a tangy sauce to compliment their rather bland taste .
I'd mix sweet chilli sauce with soya sauce.

Tomatoes fall off skewers - use them as dipping sauce .

Paneer is delicious but can break up easily . It needs to be pressed to remove excess water .
Halloumi would be easier to cook .

Look on the Quorn website - you can BBQ their products .

You could parboil some new potatoes and finish them on the BBQ .
Or
serve baked potatoes as a side .
I fill mine with mushrooms and vegan cheese .

Chicken bbqs well , but it should be from a halal butcher - satay is delicious .
Marinade the cubes in lime juice and make an easy satay sauce from commercial peanut butter adding soy sauce and more lime to taste .

If serving mayonnaise - it should be Halal ie made with unfertilised eggs
This means breaking each egg separately to check for a blood spot and disguarding it .

You can serve some delicious flat breads .
I add chopped nuts to mine if I make it myself .

Do have a lovely party .

Lovely. DS1 won’t like the corn but I will, and the cheese will go down perfectly. Many thanks, all

Veggie kebabs on skewers are tricky, as things tend to cook at different times, so for example tomatoes will be falling off the skewer long before peppers have roasted. You might be better off cooking them separately in the house then serving mixed cheese/veg in pittas, donner-style. People could still help themselves to the assorted veg. I would do cubed halloumi, mushrooms, tomatoes, roast potatoes, mixed peppers, baby onions and sweetcorn. You could also do courgettes and aubergines cubed and roasted if you need more food.

On the BBQ itself you could have veggie sausages and burgers - Quorn Southern Fried 'chicken' ones are nice, if a bit dry - you'll need coleslaw or salsa with them.

All the above, plus sweetcorn, either sliced and put on the skewer with other vegetables and halloumi. or barbecued whole

Butternut squash and halloumi skewers.
Vegan meatballs, cherry tomatoes and courgette slices.

Mushrooms are good.

Peppers, courgette, aubergine, squash chunks, baby tomatoes and halloumi or paneer, a good zingy dressing is tasty.

Padron peppers and halloumi are good together with chunks of corn on the cob.