Who says pasta has to be served in a bowl?! Store bought tortellini is in the midst of a mini-renaissance, being added to soups, deep fried or even placed on placed on skewers.
So here’s my contribution to the tortellini revolution: delicious tortellini BBQ skewers with vegetables and halloumi, all marinaded in sweet chilli sauce. Vegetarian and very yummy!
Since this is a meat-free recipe, I used store-bought cheese and tomato tortellini, but you can use any flavour you like.
Sweet chilli tortellini and vegetable BBQ skewers
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Delicious tortellini BBQ skewers, with vegetables and halloumi, all marinaded in sweet chilli sauce and grilled to perfection.
Author: Emily Leary
Recipe type: Starters, sides, dips and condiments
Serves: 8
Ingredients
- 4 tbsp sweet chilli sauce
- 4 tbsp olive oil
- 1 pack of cheese and tomato tortellini
- 2 red peppers
- 2 courgettes
- 1 pack halloumi
Instructions
- Mix the sweet chilli sauce and olive oil together in a bowl and set aside
- Cook the tortellini according to the pack instructions, drain and set aside
- Chop the courgette in half lengthways, then in ¾ inch slices
- Desseed the pepper and cut into inch pieces
- Drain the halloumi and cut into ¾ inch - 1 inch pieces
- Push the courgette, tortellini, halloumi and red pepper pieces onto your skewers in a repeating pattern
- Lay your skewers on a plate and brush generously on both sides with your chilli marinade
- Cover with clingfilm (saran wrap) and keep cool until you're ready to cook (the sooner the better as you don't want the pasta to dry out)
- Place the skewers on the BBQ or griddle pan just long enough for them to pick up some colour on each side.
- Brush with more of the chilli marinade and serve.
Linking up with Jac’s Meat Free Mondays and my own #recipeoftheweek.
Wow, very good, I love barbecue skewers , I’ll do , thanks for sharing .
Wow! It look very tasty. Hope I will have the opportunity to taste.
Great recipe and so easy to follow :D
It would never have occurred to me to barbecue pasta! My own “go to” for vegetarian barbecue is paneer.
Oh yes please Emily, what a fab idea. Halloumi on a BBQ is almost traditional now for us vegetarians, but tortellini?
I’d never have thought of using tortellini like this, but I am sure going to try it now! Thanks for sharing this wonderful recipe with the world :)
Such a novel idea, love it!
What a great idea! And just in time for our BBQ summer… ;-)
Brilliant idea, Emily. If the weather ever decides to co-operate I”m sure this will be used by many of us. Love this!
so beautiful. A simple but genius recipe Emily.
Love the addition of the tortellini. Totally different and goes so well together with the veggies.
I love everything about this dish, from the novel way to cook pasta (duh, why have I never tried this over a campfire??!) to the scrummy photos – have shared it all over the internet just because :D
Janie x
Thank you! :)
I am sooooooooo going to try these Emily.
This is so creative Emily. I never would have thought to put pasta on a skewer. I am definitely trying this.
Genius!! I adore both tortellini and halloumi, I know I would absolutely love these! It’s always nice to find something different to put on a BBQ for us veggies :)