The golden rules of lean grilling: Healthy grill recipes and ideas

How healthy is grilled food?

So, is grilled food healthy? Generally speaking, the answer is: yes. When done in the right way, grilling is a good cooking method to achieve a balanced and healthy diet. But it does require a certain set of rules to achieve optimum tasting, nutritional foods:

• Choose lean meat over processed meats, such as sausages or burgers, as they often contain lots of fat, salt and additives.
• Instead of buying pre-marinated meat, prepare a homemade, healthy marinade. You’ll find some tasty recipe ideas in the next section.
• As an alternative to meat, try grilling a tasty fish or crunchy vegetables more often.
• Avoid burning the meat. While experts are unsure about the effects of acrylamide in humans (a substance produced naturally in foods due to high-temperature cooking), they do recommend that we reduce the levels of acrylamide in foods.*

Grilled vegetable ideas 

So, you’ve decided to have a meat-free evening – now all you need are some tasty recipes to show you how to grill vegetables the healthy way. Learning how to grill veggies is pretty straight forward: all you need are fresh vegetables and a hot, good quality grill. Pre-marinade the vegetable and you’re on your way to a wholesome, flavorsome meal!  

Here are some of our favorite marinade recipes for different grilled vegetable ideas, such as zucchini, corn, eggplant, mushrooms or whatever else you have on hand.