What are your BBQ staples?

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We always do kebabs with either chicken or pork fillet, with peppers, cherry tomatoes and mushrooms. With coleslaw, new potatoes and leaves.

Tend to avoid burgers and sausages as we prefer unprocessed meat and if we buy a steak we like it cooked indoors where it's easier not to overcook it.

I wouldn't mind adding some new things to our repertoire. What do you always have with your BBQ? Thanks.

Butterfly leg if lamb with rosemary and garlic and always some haloumi.

How do you cook the halloumi?

Have just bought a thermapen so no more over cooked meat!
I like to do jerk chicken, chipotle chicken, homemade burgers, lamb chops, prawns, scallops, steak, haloumi, some kind of salsa relish - guacamole, tomato salsa, mango salsa, griddled veg - onions, mushrooms, peppers and courgettes. Experimenting with different coleslaws atm, the non-mayo type. Serve mozzarella and tomato salad, cucumber, fried/roasted potatoes. Hot chilli sauce mixed with mayo.

Would love to do some American style slow smoked BBQ meat, I keep reading about it and salivating but I need to get myself the right BBQ first.

It depends on how many people.

Small gathering (fewer than 10) - we go Greek. Chicken kebabs, lamb and mint skewers (also butterfly lamb), peppers, courgettes, Greek salad, halloumi

Larger gathering (20-30) or lots of children to feed - we go for the processed stuff, sausages, burgers, chicken drumsticks, bread rolls, plain green salad, potato salad, coleslaw

I rub corn cobs with a mixture of butter, lime juice, salt and chilli. Wrap in foil and bbq, removing foil for last couple of minutes to lightly char.

Place small lettuces (little gem) in a foil parcel. Sprinkle with salt, lemon and butter then bbq as per corn above. Char them too.

A lamb half leg marinaded in lemon, smoked paprika, garlic, salt and oregano.

Salmon brushed with Teriyaki.

Tuna with lime and chile powder.

Boston Butt marinaded in a mixture of liquid smoke, honey, brown and red sauce, French mustard, salt, pepper, a little Cayenne then slowly pot roasted in oven. Take out when cooked through and place on foil to bbq for another half hour. Or you can smoke it on a smoker/bbq

Austrian potato salad- boil small potatoes then stir a mixture of white wine vinegar, salt, pepper and mayonnaise into them. Sprinkle with poppy seeds and serve over Lambs lettuce.

My own mushroom Parmesan salad- fine slice button or Portabella mushrooms. Mix with Lambs lettuce and shave plenty of Parmesan cheese over. Add a handful of pine nuts. Mix up a standard Vinaigrette but add extra lemon juice. Pour over.

Oh and Hasselback potatoes too. With plenty of salt and paprika dusted over before roasting

For dessert, cut up pineapple and grill until a bit blackened. Yummy!

Pork Belly slices.

We make Jamie Oliver's botham burgers which are delicious. And also a spicy lamb burger with cumin/coriander etc which is also good. I get the meat from the butchers.

Also butcher's sausages, ostensibly for the children but also mysteriously popular with the adults!

Chicken thighs marinated in thyme or rosemary, lemon juice, olive oil, garlic. (sometimes start these in the oven)

Skewers of chicken with chilli lemon and mint - make a marinade with these plus olive oil and a pinch of saffron.

Have done the whole butterflied leg of lamb for special occasions too - Madhur Jaffrey's marinade for this is amazing. Or lamb chops (again with rosemary, olive oil and garlic, squeeze of lemon to serve)