Recipes for the Grill

Grilling turns simple ingredients into something special with just smoke and heat. Here are dishes for the barbecue — marinated meats, skewers and sides — each with the marinade and timing you need to get it right over the coals.

Skillet or Grilled Ratatouille

This is a simplified, picnic-friendly take on Provencal ratatouille: instead of a long braise, the vegetables are…

Chili con Carne with Grilled Beef

A quick chili con carne dreamed up as a way to give yesterday's barbecue a second life: beef already cooked over coals…

Honeyberry Barbecue Sauce

Honeyberry, a bluish-purple berry with a light tartness and a barely perceptible bitterness, rarely finds its way into…

Grilled Eggplant with Vegetable Salsa

A simple Mediterranean appetizer where grilled eggplant serves as a warm base under a cold salsa of fresh bell pepper,…

Grilled Bananas

Grilled bananas are the fastest picnic dessert: while the coals still hold their heat after the meat, the fruit…

Grilled Vegetable Skewers

These simple vegetable skewers are June grilling at its most honest: rounds of zucchini, halves of multicolored bell…

Grilled Vegetable Salad

This is a salad with a smoky edge: every vegetable goes onto the grill first, so the eggplant, zucchini, and fennel…

Whole Roasted Fish with Grilled Vegetables

Whole roasted fish with grilled vegetables is a chef's dish built on the principle that what matters most is not…

Grilled Seasonal Fruit with Yogurt Sauce

This is a dessert that balances hot caramelized fruit against a cold, spiced sauce. Over the heat the surface of the…

Marinated Grilled Vegetables

A preserve that captures summer in a jar: squash, zucchini, and bell peppers are grilled to golden stripes, then…

Grilled Vegetables with Lamb Kebabs

Grilled vegetables with lamb kebabs is a juicy summer barbecue dish in which the smoky aroma of the grill brings…

Grilled Flounder with Aromatic Herbs

Whole flounder, first browned on the grill and then gently finished in the oven, shows the Mediterranean attitude…