Cooking at Home - Italian Grilled Marinated Vegetables

Cooking at Home - Italian Grilled Marinated Vegetables

We think the key to make authentic Italian grilled marinated vegetables for antipasti is to grill the vegetables first.

Thinly slice the vegetables. If you have great knife skill you are in luck. We use a peeler to slice the softer vegetables like zucchini, yellow squash, etc. We tried to use a peeler on eggplant, but the skin was to tuff.

We used white vinegar in our marinate but you can use any of your favorites such as, red wine vinegar champagne vinegar, etc.

Cooking at Home - Italian Grilled Marinated Vegetables – Slicing the vegetables

Slicing the vegetables can be done as we did by using a peeler or by using a knife, mandolin food slicer, an attachment to a food processor, etc.

Cooking at Home - Italian Grilled Marinated Vegetables – Slicing the vegetables

Eggplant skin and meat are too hard for the peeler.

Cooking at Home - Italian Grilled Marinated Vegetables – Staging saves you steps

Cooking at Home - Italian Grilled Marinated Vegetables – Grilling Vegetables

Cooking at Home - Italian Grilled Marinated Vegetables – Grilling Vegetables

Cooking at Home - Italian Grilled Marinated Vegetables – Grilled Yellow squash, Zucchini and Eggplant

Grilling peppers has a few more steps. We grilled the peppers in the same pan we use for the other vegetables using more care to give it a good char. We found that by putting a lid over the peppers helped to give them great char marks.

Cooking at Home - Italian Grilled Marinated Vegetables - Grilling the peppers

Cooking at Home - Italian Grilled Marinated Vegetables - Grilling the peppers

Once the peppers are grilled, placed the peppers in a covered container. This allows the peppers to sweat making it easier to remove the skin.

Let the red peppers sit for approximately 15 min.

Cooking at Home - Italian Grilled Marinated Vegetables

Carefully remove the skin. Remember the skin may be hot.

Cooking at Home - Italian Grilled Marinated Vegetables - Remove the skin

When peeled, cut the peppers and remove the seeds. Now, sliced the peppers.

Cooking at Home - Italian Grilled Marinated Vegetables - Remove the seeds

We prepare each vegetable in its own individual container. Our marinate recipe is for each individual vegetable.

The Marinated

Ingredients:

1/3 cup extra virgin olive oil

1/8 cup vinegar (to taste)

1 clove garlic

Pinch red pepper flaks

Salt and pepper

Once stage, add the garlic, olive oil, vinegar, a pinch of pepper flakes and salt and pepper to taste.

Cooking at Home - Italian Grilled Marinated Vegetables

The marinated vegetables can be served within two hours, but best in 12 or more hours.

We used our Italian Grilled Marinated Vegetables as a family size antipasti…

Cooking at Home - Italian Grilled Marinated Vegetables - Antipasti

Cooking at Home - Italian Grilled Marinated Vegetables - Antipasti

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