Thai-Style Veggie Kabobs With Spicy Peanut Sauce

Starrynews's Note:

Adapted from a NatureSweet Tomato recipe hand-out I picked up at the store. We use this as a side or fun appetizer, so I am putting down 2 kabobs per person for the serving - adjust accordingly, as needed! It's great for grilling season, and makes for a colorful, simple dish. If you like heat, add more crushed red pepper to the sauce!

• Total Time: 23 mins
• Prep Time: 15 mins
• Cook Time: 8 mins

Ingredients:

Serves: 4

Yield: 8.0 kabobs

Kabobs

• 24 cherry tomatoes or 24 grape tomatoes
• 4 green onions, sliced diagonally into pieces
• 16 snow peas
• 1 yellow bell pepper, cut into 1-inch chunks
• 16 baby carrots

Peanut Sauce

• 1/4 cup peanut butter
• 1 tablespoon light soy sauce
• 2 tablespoons water
• 2 tablespoons lime juice
• 1 tablespoon brown sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon dry crushed red pepper (to taste)
• 1/2 teaspoon lime zest

Directions:

1. Using 8 metal skewers or wood skewers that have been soaked into water, alternately thread on the vegetables.
2. Grill for about 4 minutes on each side, until veggies are cooked crisp tender.
3. Meanwhile, combine all ingredients for the dipping sauce and mix well.
4. Serve 2 kabobs per person with the dipping sauce. Another fun way to serve is to plate the kebabs and drizzle a bit of sauce down each kabob, serving with the remaining sauce.

Reviews

[Prose]

These were good, and would have been easy to make except that I had a very hard time skewering the baby carrots. They kept splitting down the center. I tried everything (cutting them in half lengthwise or the other way, making a starter hole with my knife, using the small ones, the big ones, etc.) It was a real pain. Also, the cherry tomatoes were a little overcooked for my taste while the carrots were hardly cooked at all. Otherwise I thought it was a fun recipe. The peanut sauce was delicious! I'll probably make this again with mushrooms instead of carrots, as suggested by Debbwl, and I might make separate skewers for each type of veggie since they take different amounts of time to cook. We enjoyed it as a main dish with 4-5 skewers each. Made for Veg*an Swap, August 2010

[Debbwl]

These are so easy and tasty! Liked that I could come home and have veggie bobs without the hassle of marinating before work. The only change I made was to use mushrooms in place of carrots. The peas grilled up nice and were so good with the sauce. Thanks for the post.

[Jamilahs_Kitchen]

Very nice recipe for a HOT night. I didn't have snow peas and subbed some mushrooms and did them on the inside non stick grill. They came out great. I was scared DH wouldn't like the sauce but he thought it was great and had just enough acid and heat for us. Thanks :) Made for ZWT 6 by a fellow Looney Spoon