24 Flavorful Grilling Recipes to Make Your Summer Cookout Sizzle
Need some flavorful grilling recipes that’ll make your summer cookout epic? This collection of recipes will give you plenty of ideas when planning your barbecue menu.
So fire up the grill, and get ready to make some steak kabobs, chicken Caprese, grilled watermelon salad, BBQ bacon burgers, and other summer dishes.
Grilled Garlic Parmesan Wings
These chicken wings are grilled and then covered in a buttery garlic parmesan sauce. The cilantro on top goes perfectly with the delicious sauce.
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Chicken Fajita Foil Packets
This might become your new preferred way to make fajitas since there is virtually no cleanup compared to making them the traditional way.
Serve them with some warm tortillas straight off the grill.
Get the Recipe: Chicken Fajita Foil Packets
Lemon Garlic Shrimp Kabobs
These lemon garlic shrimp kabobs will be your new go-to grilling recipe.
Many side dish recipes for the kabobs are included, such as pineapple coconut rice, spinach salad, and other ideas.
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Honey Dijon Chicken Foil Packets
Chicken and veggies cook up in a homemade honey dijon sauce. The addition of the orange slices gives this dish a bright flavor.
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Grilled Pineapple Spears
Pineapple on the grill is already delicious and these skewers have a jalapeno honey glaze that makes them even more tasty.
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Hawaiian BBQ Chicken
Hawaiian barbecue chicken with grilled pineapples couldn’t be easier to make and is ready in only 25 minutes.
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Veggie Skewers
These veggie skewers are grilled to perfection in a garlic herb sauce.
This super popular recipe has been shared over 100,000 times on social media, so you know it will be tasty.
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Grilled Peaches
These peaches get perfectly caramelized on the grill and are finished off with some honey and cinnamon.
While you can serve these as a side, they make an amazing dessert with a scoop of vanilla ice cream.
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Chipotle Chicken Skewers
These kebabs are made with chicken and chipotle chilis, as well as fresh summer produce like bell peppers and yellow squash.
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Grilled Watermelon and Balsamic Chicken
This chicken dish features a winning flavor combo of fresh mint, balsamic, and grilled watermelon.
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Grilled Watermelon Salad
This grilled watermelon salad is loaded with blueberries and feta. It’s quite refreshing on a warm summer day.
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Grilled Steak Strawberry Salad
This delicious salad is made with grilled steak and onions, strawberries, pistachios, and more.
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Sweet & Spicy Chicken Skewers
Say goodbye to bland chicken, you’ll love these sweet, and sour Asian chicken skewers.
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Beer Brats
Made with just four ingredients (one being beer, of course), these beer brats will get rave reviews from everyone.
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Surf and Turf Foil Packets
If you love steak and shrimp, you don’t have to pick, just throw some of these surf and turf foil packets on the grill.
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Grilled Corn Zucchini Salad
Charred pieces of corn and zucchini, as well as feta, come together to make this crowd-pleasing salad. Fresh lemon juice gives it even more summer flavor.
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BBQ Bacon Burger
This gourmet burger is seasoned with brown sugar, liquid heat, chili powder, and more.
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Carne Asada Tacos
This heavenly carne asada marinade recipe is a keeper; it’s made with fresh lime and orange juice.
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Grilled BBQ Chicken Flatbread
If you’re looking for something different to grill instead of hotdogs and burgers, try this BBQ chicken and caramelized onion flatbread pizza.
If you haven’t had pizza cooked on the grill before, you’re missing out!
Get the Recipe: Grilled BBQ Chicken Flatbread
Cajun Shrimp Foil Packets
Cajun shrimp and asparagus come together in this healthy foil packet recipe that everyone will love. It’s ready in just 20 minutes.
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Jamaican Jerk Chicken
This jerk chicken recipe is packed with flavors of the Caribbean and has the best homemade marinade.
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New York Style Hot Dogs
This gourmet hot dog recipe is topped with a mouthwatering homemade red pepper relish and onion sauce.
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Chicken Caprese
Nothing screams summer more than Caprese salad.
This dish takes all the fresh ingredients of Caprese salad such as tomatoes, mozzarella, basil, and balsamic, and combines them with chicken, yum!
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Steak Kabobs
The secret to these flavorful steak kabobs is the marinade made with soy sauce, brown sugar, bourbon, and other ingredients.
Get the Recipe: Steak Kabobs
