Mixed Vegetable Grill

By Hklbrries

"Mixed Vegetable Grill takes about 25 minutes to prepare and another 25 minutes to grill. You can make the marinade the evening before, then just start the grill after work and throw on the vegetables.

Most of the time this dish would be considered an appetizer, but if you add accompaniments like fresh cheese (feta, Mozzarella or goat), bread, salami or olives, it makes a wonderfully light meal - no stirring over a hot stove required."

Tarra Duggan

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup olive oil
• 1/4 cup balsamic vinegar
• Juice of 1 lemon
• Juice of 1 orange
• Salt, to taste
• Pepper, to taste
• 1 pound summer squash (use various colors)
• 2 bell peppers (use different colors), stemmed and deribbed
• 2 sweet onions, peeled and quartered through stem
• 4 portobello mushrooms, stemmed

Details

Servings 4

Preparation

Step 1

Combine the olive oil, balsamic vinegar, and lemon and orange juices. Season with salt and pepper. Set aside.

To get the longest slices possible, cut the squash on the bias to 1/4-inch-thick slices. Cut the peppers into 3 or 4 large segments, following the "walls" of the pepper.

Combine the squash, peppers, onions and mushrooms in a jumbo (2-gallon-size) resealable plastic freezer bag; add the marinade. Seal the bag, then turn it over a few times to coat the vegetables evenly with marinade. Marinate in the refrigerator for several hours or the evening before you plan to serve them.

Prepare a medium fire in a barbecue grill. Start by browning the onions on their cut sides on the hottest part of the grill, then move them to the perimeter to cook through.

Cook the peppers skin-side down until blackened, about 5 minutes. Place the portobellos gill-side up on the grill and cook for 8 to 10 minutes, until tender.

Grill the squash for about 5 minutes per side. As the vegetables are done, continue to add new ones to the grill.

Remove the blackened skin from the peppers, then arrange the peppers and other grilled vegetables on a big platter. Serve warm or at room temperature.