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Summer Grilling Recipes: Burgers, Chicken, and More

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Updated Mon, June 29, 2015 at 10:33 PM UTC

Grilled lobsters are delicious, especially when served in halves and seasoned with herbal cilantro butter and chiles.

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Put a Mediterranean twist on an easy-to-eat grilled meal. You can consider it guilt-free too, since it’s paired with a Greek yogurt dipping sauce.

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This salad showcases tender-grilled strip or skirt steak over greens, beets, scallions, and a homemade aioli sauce. The easy version of the aioli recipe? Season prepared mayonnaise with garlic and mustard.

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Grill chicken thighs, zucchini rounds, and mushrooms dressed with lemon juice, olive oil, and parsley. Tip: Stack the ingredients on two skewers instead of one to make sure they don’t wobble and spin as much.

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Take the classic pizza party to the next level. Skewer the essential pizza ingredients — grape tomatoes, mozzarella balls, chicken sausage and balls of dough — and grill. Sprinkle basil leaves on them when they’re done and serve with a side of marinara sauce.

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“Grill” and “quinoa” aren’t two words you’d expect in the same recipe, but this one will surprise you. Lightly char scallions and tomatoes and place them — along with avocado, mint, and pistachios — over a bed of quinoa. Top it off with a drizzle of olive oil and sprinkle of sea salt.

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Rick Bayless offers up a mashup of the rich and delicious, gooey-melty queso funded and a classic American burger. Cultural exchange never tasted better, unless, of course, it includes a big spoonful of roasted tomatillo salsa.

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Luckily for the procrastinator in all of us, there is a way to grill juicy lamb chops in only 22 minutes – a side of salsa verde included. Perfect for last-minute guests at your summer cookout.

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These are not your ordinary wings, and you can tell by the marinade alone, which is made of oyster sauce, soy sauce, sugar, pepper, and oil. The tangy dipping sauce is the cherry on top, with chile powder, fish sauce, lime juice, sesame seeds, and lime juice mixed together.
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For this salad, you can use any greens that are in season and can handle being charred. Grilled onions, tomatillos, nopales, and cheese serve as toppings, but the most interesting part is the dressing, which is a whisked combination of honey, olive oil, vinegar, and espresso.

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Dressing-Soaked Burgers — Clinton Kelly shares three ways to kick your burger flavor up a notch, by using something already in you fridge: salad dressing.

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Buttery slices of pound cake and rum-soaked pineapple spears are thrown on the grill and become a toasty, caramelized dessert — the perfect end to any summer barbecue.

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This crispy marinated chicken comes from Top Chef’s Kevin Gillespie.

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Food52

All you need to treat a prime cut of streak right is salt, pepper, and a really hot grill.

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Francesco Tonelli

The grilled fruit after dinner is often the best part of the meal. So why not have the grilled fruit FOR dinner?

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The longer it marinates, says chef Curtis Stone, the more flavor the chicken takes on.

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Ray Kachatorian

The Most Perfect Cheeseburger — Ashley Rodriguez from Not Without Salt offers step-by-step tips on how to create a perfect cheeseburger from beef patty to bun.

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In this recipe, lobster is flash-grilled, then poached in its own shell in a pool of melted garlic—parsley butter.

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Saveur

The charred bits of asparagus add a wonderful smoky note to the vegetable’s inherent sweetness.

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Everyday Food

All you do is shuck the oysters, leave them in the half shell, put a little pad of butter on top of them, and stick them straight on the grill for a few minutes.

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Don't leave your vegetarian friends out in the cold at your summer barbecue! This "meaty" veggie burger may even satisfy the carnivores in your midst.

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You want a show-stopping appetizer that takes literally one minute to cook? Try these grilled red grapes with gooey burrata cheese.

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GQ

Fire up the barbecue for dessert!

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GQ

Caramelized grilled apple slices pair with ham and cheese for this Spanish tapas-style appetizer.

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Mackenzie Smith

The earliest form of grilled cheese was just that: a piece of cheese, warmed over the grill using a stick or skewer, just like a marshmallow.

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Keller + Keller

The marinade for this grilled shrimp is a sweet but hot sauce: orange and lime juices are mixed with cayenne and chili powder.

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Ellen Silverman

Even lettuce can be grilled. Romaine stands up beautifully to heat and develops a nice sweetness.

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Martha Stewart

Grilled Steak — A sizzling steak on the grill is one of summer’s most pleasant sounds. Here, Martha Stewart breaks down how to grill four different cuts perfectly.

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Martha Stewart

Fish plus grill equals terrifying, right? Not with this technique from Everyday Food’s Sarah Carey.

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Everyday Food

Resist the urge to pile on any of the usual toppings—lettuce, tomato, ketchup. This rich and delicious Umami burger is topped with port and Stilton.

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Classic guacamole is well and good, but try throwing that guac on the grill for a smoky flavor.

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Stockfood

Since every part of the bird is exposed to the heat equally with this method, its skin gets a uniform crackly crust.

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Peden + Munk

Serve these chicken thighs on their own, sandwich them like a burger, or chop them and add to salads or pasta dishes.

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These skewers carry vegetable-packed beef slices with a tasty Asian flavor. If you’re on Team Medium Rare, it’ll only take 2 to 4 minutes to grill each side.

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Grill burgers just 2 1/2 minutes a side for medium-rare, placing cheese on burgers in last minute.

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Martha Stewart

Vianney Rodriguez of the blog Sweet Life writes, “Restaurant-quality fajitas are one of the easiest grilled meals you can make at home.”

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Vianney Rodriguez

Bananas Foster, on the Grill — “I am bananas for grilled bananas!” says grilling expert Elizabeth Karmel. “I make them all the time.”

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Memorial Day until Labor Day is the official fifth season in America known as “Grilling Season.” Parties are planned all summer long around the promise of firing up that grill. Home cooks around the country blissfully ignore their stoves and ovens, preferring to throw a couple of dogs on the grill than turn on that broiler one more time. Debates as to the virtues of gas grilling versus charcoal grills break out at Little League games. Special tools, such as high-tech meat thermometers and special spatulas are procured.

With this in mind, Yahoo Food is here with a host of recipes to cover your ever grilling need. You can use that grill for every part of the meal — not just your steaks. There’s a grilled grapes with Burrata cheese recipe that makes a perfect appetizer ahead of a heavy steak dinner. Grill your guacamole when hosting an outdoor Mexican fiesta. Martha Stewart’s Charred Romaine Salad recipe puts greens on the table, even if they are a little smokey. Next up: main courses. We have everything from a classic ribeye that your grandfather will love to a crowd-pleasing barbecue chicken recipe that will have the neighbors coming back for more. And don’t forget dessert! We have three grilled desserts that will serve as the perfect finish to your meal.

Can’t wait to get grilling? Here’s more from Yahoo Food:

The best tools and gadgets for grilling season

How to get perfect grill marks

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