16 Easy Summer Grilling Recipes For Your Next Cookout
These grilling recipes will make you and all your friends drool all summer. Summer is all about grilling and with these recipes you will be grilling like a pro. These recipes are so easy and delicious that people will think you’ve been grilling for years. Try these 16 easy grilling recipes and have the best cookout ever.
1. California Grilled Chicken
This recipe from delish serves 4 and takes 40 minutes to make. It may seem daunting but it’s a 4 step recipe with 12 ingredients and will have everybody’s mouth waters. All you need is the ingredients and a grill and your set to go. This recipe which makes a marinated grilled chicken topped with mozzarella, avocado and tomato with a drizzle of balsamic can be the main course or stand on it’s own. Get ready o have everyone asking for the recipe and enjoy!
Thai Turkey Burgers With Asian Slaw
This recipe from Feasting At Home is both delicious and easy. Add some global flavor to your cookout with these savory burgers. When people think of cookouts, they usually think of American food but why not set yourself apart with these Thai turkey burgers and Asian slaw. This recipes serves 3-4 people, takes 45 minutes to make and the best part is it makes a complete meal!
3. Grilled Fajita Skewers
This recipe for Grilled Fajita Skewers from Tasty is an essential to any cookout. When you think of cookouts, you think of BBQ and meaty skewers. This Grilled Fajita Skewer recipe puts a twist on your average skewers. This recipe makes 12 servings, has 10 ingredients and 4 Steps! If steak isn’t your thing, variations of this recipe include using chicken or shrimp. Your cookout is sure to be a success with these skewers!
4. Grilled Clams with Spiced Paprika Butter
This recipe for Grilled Clams comes from Bon Appetite and is perfect for an appetizer at your cookout. Clams are a delicacy and with this spiced paprika butter, they will melt in your mouth. Give everyone at the cookout a treat that will go perfect with you’re grilled entree. This recipe makes 4 servings, has 7 ingredients and only has 2 steps, enjoy!
5. Grilled Hawaiian Barbecue Chicken
This recipe for grilled chicken from The Recipe Critic puts a twist on the classic grilled chicken and is perfect for your summer cookout. Sweet and savory, this dish uses summer fruit (pineapple) and veggies to make a festive summer cookout meal. This dish takes only 25 minutes to make and serves 4. You only need 8 ingredients and it has only 3 steps, consider your cookout complete!
6. Perfectly Grilled Zucchini
This recipe for grilled zucchini from Skinnytaste is much needed to go alongside all that meat you’ll be grilling at your cook out. Vegetables (when cooked right) can be so delicious especially when grilled. Quick and easy, this dish is the perfect way to get in your daily dose of vegetables with all the other (not so good for you) food you’ll be eating. For this dish, you only need 4 ingredients and steps and it only takes 25 minutes!
7. Garlic Grilled Steak
This recipe for grilled steak comes from Taste of Home and is a good mixup from all the chicken you’ll be eating at your cookout. But, this isn’t just your typical steak-with garlic, lemon juice and Worcester sauce, this steak is super flavorful and will have people wondering how you made it. This recipe has 7 ingredients, only 2 steps and takes only 15 minutes to make!
8. Grilled Brussel Sprouts
This recipe for Grilled Brussel Sprouts from Hungry Hobby is a great addition to any entree you’re also grilling for your cookout. Brussel sprouts are so good for you and can be tasty if they’re cooked right. Baking them or grilling them is the best way to get the right flavor out of them and adding blood orange avocado oil and coconut teriyaki sauce in this recipe makes them that much more tastier. Give your vegetarian and vegan friends something to munch on too at your cookout with these brussel sprouts.
9. Honey Soy Grilled Pork Chops
This recipe for grilled pork chops comes from delish and is the perfect mix of sweet and savory to go along with all your other grilling sides. Marinated in soy sauce, honey, garlic and red pepper flakes, these pork chops have all the flavor you could possibly need. Best part- there’s only 5 ingredients, 2 steps and takes 45 minutes to make. These will be the best pork chops you’ve ever had and it will be you who made them!
10. Shrimp And Pineapple Skewers
This recipe for shrimp and pineapple skewers comes from Feasting at Home and is great for your pescatarian friends that are going to be at your cookout. Grilled shrimp always taste good and mix it with some pineapple and it’s even better. This recipe is a little more complicated than the others in this list but they are so worth is and only take 30 minutes to make!
11. Grilled Swineapple Dogs
The recipe for these Grilled Swineapple Dogs comes from Tasty and is the ultimate twist to your classic grilled hot dog. Everybody needs a good hot dog at a cook out but regular hot dogs can get boring but not with these bad boys. From the seasoning to the pineapple to the bacon these are far better than your dad’s hot dogs. In six easy steps you’ll have the tastiest hot dog you’ve ever eaten, enjoy!
12. Perfect Grilled Eggplant
This grilled eggplant recipe from The Spruce Eats will make you love eggplant, if you don’t already. Eggplant is another one of those vegetable where you have to cook it right in order for it to taste good but it tastes best when grilled, especially with this recipe. This recipe takes a bit longer than the other ones on this list as they have to soak in the seasonings but the recipe only has 4 ingredients so you got this!
13. Haute Grilled Avocados
This recipe from California Avocados makes the already tasty avocado, that much better. Everybody loves avocados and everyone will love your grilled avocados. With salsa and lime juice these avocados will be so flavorful and the best part- this recipe has 2 steps and takes 4 minutes!
14. Grilled Asparagus
This recipe for grilled asparagus from Delish will be the best asparagus you have ever eater. Asparagus is another vegetable that is way better grilled although it’s good other ways too. This recipe doesn’t have much of a twist other than the asparagus is being grilled but it is one of the easiet recipes on this list and only takes 10 minutes.
15. Grilled Naan Bread
This recipe for grilled naan bread with Indian garlic scape chutney can be found on Feasting at Home ‘s webpage. This naan bread is sure to spice up any cookout with garlic chutney and grilled bread. It might seem daunting as this recipe takes 1hr and 45 minutes but it only has 6 steps and is sure to be a hit at your cookout!
16. Siracha Sesame Grilled Corn
This grilled corn recipe from Tasty will have everyone drooling over your dish. This grilled corn with a mayonnaise and siracha drizzle will definitely put the spice in your cookout. This recipe can be made in under 30 minutes and only has 6 steps, enjoy!
