The best seasoning and marinade for grilled vegetables

Vegetables belong on the grill just like meat, whether as a side dish or the main item on the plate. To always make them perfect and able to replace perfectly grilled ribs, steaks, or chicken breasts, it is always important to lightly season the vegetables. For this, various dressings, spices, and of course, olive oil are the best.

Three basic ingredients

If you are grilling vegetables, always have at least three basic ingredients on hand: olive oil, pepper, and salt.

Olive oil enhances the taste of the vegetables and also helps release antioxidants and nutrients from fresh vegetables into our body, aiding easier digestion. Always choose extra virgin olive oil of the highest quality.

Look for quality in pepper and salt as well. In our offer, you will find sea Kampot salt, which, however, should be used on vegetables only just before serving. If you add pepper, our white Kampot pepper pairs excellently with vegetables – it has a mild yet intense flavor that gives the vegetables the right sharpness. However, you can also combine peppers, beets, or mushrooms with black pepper, which is stronger and more closely resembles the taste of classic meat.

Spices

Seasoning vegetables with pepper, salt, and oil is just the beginning. On the market, you can find a huge variety of spice blends designed specifically for vegetables. However, you can also create such a blend at home exactly from what you like. It is best to use herbs you grow in your garden and know you have cultivated in 100% organic quality.

Most blends are made of dried herbs such as caraway, coriander, ginger, thyme, oregano, or dried garlic. Unfortunately, in most packets of spice blends you buy in large supermarkets, the quality is very low, and they are further flavored with edible salt and flavor stabilizers, which does not make them a healthy choice. Few people realize this, and the seasoned dish then ends up oversalted.

Our tip: prepare your own herbal salt at home! Use your garden herbs, dry them, and mix them in a grinder, for example with our coarse sea salt. You will have a final touch for grilled vegetables that everyone will appreciate not only in taste but also in appearance.

Dressings

Dressings are also ideal for seasoning vegetables. They are mainly suitable for vegetable salads, but you can also use them to brush vegetables directly during grilling or serve them separately.

The ideal ones are those that give vegetables a spicier flavor. Olive oil and pepper usually play the main role again, but don’t hesitate to add ingredients such as lemon juice, shallots, garlic, mustard, or ginger.

Many people underestimate the vegetable side dish for grilling, but from our experience, we know that after a freshly prepared salad, it just "disappears in no time". Unlike meat, it has the advantage that you don't have to wait for it to grill! So don't wait and use our tips for preparing vegetables – your guests will surely appreciate it.