Vegetable kebabs

These vegetable kebabs are great fun to make, very tasty to eat and brighten up the barbecue platters. 

If you put the prepared vegetable pieces on a platter, everyone can make up their own kebabs.

Great for the children as they get to choose which vegetebles they want to eat.

Ingredients

Take a selection of any of the following vegetables:

Cubed eggplant, zucchini
Button mushrooms
Cherry tomatoes or quartered larger tomatoes
Pieces of potato,  kumara (Sweet potato) – partially pre-cooked
Capsicum – any colour, red, green, yellow etc

Method

If you are using wooden or bamboo kebab sticks, soak them in cold water for 15 minutes before you load them with vegetables.  (The sticks won’t burn on the barbecue if they’re wet).

If you’re using metal kebab sticks, make sure you have a thick  dry cloth to handle them when the vegetables are cooked to save getting burnt fingers

Thread 3-5 pieces of different vegetables on each stick.  Vary the colours so you don’t have all the green ones and all the red ones together.

Coat lightly with cooking oil and pace on the barbecue grill.  Turn regularly and coat with more oil if they start to look a bit dry.  Eggplant especially needs plenty of oil.

Vegetable kebabs can take 15-20 minutes to cook.