Help! Running out of recipes for the BBQ

[Mudnut]

I have been renovating my house since early December. We have not had a kitchen since then, and am getting tired of the standard BBQ meals. We do have a lot of take away places here, but would like to cook some more at home to save money. I do have my Coleman 2 burner stove also, but no oven. Any good quick meals that can be cooked on the BBQ, that is not necessarily standard grilled meat.

Thanks,

Ken

[CraigE]

If you have a hooded BBQ all roasts can be done on them. 4 burner light 2 ends on high and let warm up, place roast in baking tray and place in centre of BBQ plate, close lid and turn down to low and allow to cook.

Any stir fry can be done ona BBQ.
Fried rice on a hot plate.
Seafood dishes eg marinated squid.
Other options are go down to your gas or camping store and buy a ring burner that will run off your 9kg cylinder and you have your stove. You can get a good one for $40. Great for camping later on.
:D:D

[Tango51]

The only thing you can't do is bake, otherwise you are almost unlimited in what you can cook!
Good quality thick alfoil will give you heaps of options on the BBQ.
Fish, seafood, forequarter lamb or easy carve, or lamb mini roasts with rosemary garlic.
Two burner, one pot for sauce, other for pasta!
Pot roast!
Silverside
Who are you cooking for?

[Tango51]

Tango's "Life Of Brian" BBQ Chops
1/2 cup good olive oil
1/2 Tbs ground fennel seeds
2 garlic cloves finely chopped
10 dried juniper berries
salt and freshly ground pepper
6 pork chops (a little over a kilo)@ 1 inch thick
Stir gently olive oil and next 4 ingredients in a tray 9inch x 12 inch/ 24cm x 34 cm till each side of the chops can be coated with marinade.
refrigerate turning over chops every 4 hours, 8 hours or overnight.
Remove tray from fridge and chops from tray 1 hour before eating.
Preheat BBQ grill 15 minutes before grilling at high.
Grill chops for 7 minutes each side, don't turn or play with them just turn them once.
After removing, cove with foil for 7 minutes before eating.

[sschmez]

BBQ Dimsims

Cut Dimsims in half along the length and BBQ ....

Goes great with fried rice mentioned above

:DStevo

[Fusion]

BBQ Dimsims

Cut Dimsims in half along the length and BBQ ....

Goes great with fried rice mentioned above

:DStevo

I'll second that ... the old dimmy's taste pretty good on the BBQ;)

[Chenz]

An old time favourite of ours is doing veggies like eggplant, pumpkin (butternut is best) and carrots on the BBQ.

Cut them into thin slices lenghtways - 5-8mm and paint or spray with Olive Oil. herbs to taste. I usually use Italian Herbs and some ground chillies.

Place on the BBQ plate when it is hot and turn once or twice till cooked. Bloody beautiful.

[CowsGoMoo]

I'll second that ... the old dimmy's taste pretty good on the BBQ;)

Hmmm, do you put them on cooked or just defrosted?

[Tango51]

Verdure grilled veg platter for bbq meats

1/2 cups quality olive oil whisk in 3 TBS fresh lemon juice 2 cloves garlic diced fine, 1 tspoon dried oregano= marinade/dressing/baster

Slice eggplant and salt
Boil pot of saltd water and fennel bulb for 15 minutes, cut slice 1/2 inch dimensions and marinate
Preheat bbq 15 mins on med/high
Grill whole capsicum, turning as they blacken, 30 mins remove and clean
baste and grill sliced eggplant AFTER removing salt, char stripes about 8 -10 minutes, grill corn on cob, and fennel slices 6 mins till charred
serve drooled with dressing and fresh basil leaves.

[sschmez]

Hmmm, do you put them on cooked or just defrosted?

defrosted usually .... frozen ones work and thaw pretty quickly, just harder to cut in half

:D

[Fusion]

defrosted usually .... frozen ones work and thaw pretty quickly, just harder to cut in half

:D

At least i now know what to cook up when you come down this way Stevo ;):D

[Tango51]

MN's post was very useful.
I was going to post some favourites like
seared swordfish/tuna/sirloin green pepper
warmed taglietelle garlic parsley grilled capsicum and chillies but I realized I simply can't outdo the frozen dim sims.:D

The great thing about a BBQ is it will enhance good fresh ingredients.
We can get sick of all processed foods pretty quickly but the only limit here is availability of ingredients and your imagination.

Grilled eggplant sliced with pecorino cheese and bacon like a sandwich.....imagination.
Go For it.

[mojo]

Any sort of skewers (chicken, pork, beef ...) go very well on the BBQ.

Any you can't beat garlic or chilli prawns ... :BigThumb:

[stevo68]

Heres are really simple snack for the BBQ, Cabonosi as many as you like dependant on the hordes. Chop it up into bite sized pieces. Ditto with mushrooms and marinate in garlic and olive oil. Then put on hot plate, give it a good sizzling, throw in a bowl, hand out the toothpicks and watch it get nailed :)

Also good for BBQ's are ribs, I used to do a really simple baste of tomato sauce, worchestire sauce and onions. You heat the mixture up and then baste onto the ribs, works well with beef ribs and the fattier type pork ribs.

Lastly, if you dont mind curry, here is a nice marinade... curry powder, tomato paste, brown vinegar ( easy does it), splash of oil, mix it up, throw in the meat and marinade for a couple of hrs and voila.

For Steak again, though Port/Wine Sauce is good with a rib roast:

Red wine/ Port Sauce:

Good belt of either dependant on how many feeding. Then tomato sauce a good lug. A reasonable teaspoon of garlic, diced red onion, redcurrant jelly, a beef stock cube crushed, a cuppla bay leaves and let it reduce. When ready to eat meat, whip up some supreme gravox and water, then pour that in to thicken. Dont want t gluggy just a nice consistency. Sometimes I also throw in a cuppla pinches of sugar as well. Might take a few cracks at it to get it right, but just play around with the ingredients.

Pepper Sauce:

Green peppercorns from the supermarket, comes in its own juice. Chop up an onion, diced, then put the onions, drain peppercorns and keep juice to the side, put in peppercorns, a cuppla dashes of soy sauce, a cap of vinegar and quickly stir around until onions are translucent. then stir in peppercorn juice for some kapow, then add cream and stir and let it come to boil slightly then let simmer down, stirring all the while otherwise will burn. Chuck steak on plate, pour over sauce and voila :-).

Regards

Stevo