Grilling zucchini


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When building the perfect outdoor kitchen, selecting the outdoor kitchen appliances that are right for you can be as much fun as dreaming about your next meal.  There are so many options, and putting the pieces together in your imagination is exciting, but nothing compared to the way it will feel when you’re walking around in it.  There are side grills, grills with searing options, storage possibilities, outdoor lighting, and pizza ovens that will open up new possibilities for culinary adventures.

There is a versatility in grilling that most people might not suspect, until they start learning about the grill.  It’s not accidental that this primal way of cooking food has stuck around for so long, and keeps evolving to the excellent outdoor kitchens that are available today.  So something as seemingly simple as grilled zucchini becomes loaded with possibilities when the possibilities on the grill are expanded.  For beginners, though, it’s important to know a couple of basic things.

First, zucchini, like many vegetables, are composed primarily of water.  The same principles, then, for cooking meat, apply here.  Punctures and cuts in the food can let out all the flavor.  With zucchini, this is more true than perhaps for any other food, where its structure makes it very easy for the water to be released in the cooking process, which can make for a rather dry and flavorless vegetable.  However, with some knowledge about cutting, and sealing the vegetable with butter or oil, the natural flavors, and any other seasonings that you might add, can be locked in to make an exceptional dish.  The other thing to remember for grilling zucchini is, like with other foods, to only turn it once.  This gives those beautiful grill marks, and also insures a capture of flavor.  The right outdoor appliances can really give the right touch, to make for perfect meals every time.

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Monday, June 29th, 2009 Food, Home & Garden

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