Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Fire roasted veggies

I made 'em to go with the tacos on my hubby's birthday. very simple to make. Just chop the vegetables you want to roast to bite size. Use vegetables which will cook easily. As you can see from the picture, i have used, pearl onions, yellow squash, zucchini, grape tomatoes and red, yellow and green bell peppers.  I have also grilled some asparagus with them. I used the same basting sauce for both of them, for which the recipe follows.
Basting Sauce:

1. Dijon mustered - 2 tbsp
2. Vinegar - 2 tsp
3. Honey - 2 tsp
4. Yellow pepper paste - 2 tsp
5. Oil - 2 tsp
6. Salt - to taste
7. Pepper powder - 1/2 tsp.
8. Oregano dry - 1/2 tsp
9. Chilli/cayenne powder - 1/2 tsp or to taste

Just mix all of the above ingredients together to make the sauce. Make more or less according to your usage.

 Method to make the skewers:

1. If you are using wooden skewers, please soak them in water for an hour before you put them on fire, they will catch fire otherwise.
2. Insert the vegetables with coordinating colours and make all the skewers ready.
3. hold them on the open flame till they start sweating. Do one skewer at a time,now with the help of brush, apply the sauce on these skewers or pour the sauce wide container, take these skewers and roll 'em in the sauce then put them on a stove top grill\pan\tava let them get carmalized and they are ready to sereve.
4. To make asparagus, prepare asparagus by copping the at least 1/2 inch of the bottom off.. it is pretty barky, you may not be able to eat it. Put it on the grill or tava. pour some basting sauce on it and saute for 2 mins, asparagus is ready to eat... 
5. while serving, pour the remaining sauce on top of the veggies and devour all of 'em.


Tip:

1. Leave atleast 2 inches of the skewer vacant below to hold it on open stove over the fire, or you may burn your hand.
2. You may also use small cubes of tofu or paneer. Just make sure have soaked 'em overnight in the basting sauce. you will have to make more basting sauce if you are using tofu or paneer.

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