Grilled Vegetables With Smoky Honey Mustard Dipping Sauce

Grilled Vegetables With Honey Mustard Dipping Sauce — Grilling gives these simply prepared vegetables the perfect amount of smoky flavor and the dipping sauce accentuates that lovely smokiness!! Healthy, fast, EASY, zero cleanup, and ready in 5 minutes!! There’s no better time of year to enjoy vegetables than in the summer, in my opinion. When veggies are fresh, seasonal, and abundant they taste so good and so much better than in the dead of winter. But if you’re like me and go a little too crazy at the grocery stores or farmer’s markets, you may wind up with a surplus on your hands. Or maybe you’re lucky enough to have an overflowing garden.

Not sure what to do with all those veggies? You should grill them of course! It’s amazing that even people who claim to ‘not really like vegetables’ will eat more of them when they’re grilled. The smoky flavor from the grill is just so good. You can grill almost any vegetable, so if you have other veggies on hand that you want to toss on the grill or use up, go for it. When veggies are a little past their prime and maybe I don’t want them on a salad, the grill is a perfect way to salvage them. I hate throwing food away.

And if you want to jazz up your grilled vegetables, dipping them in a smoky honey mustard dipping sauce is the way to go. This easy sauce gets its smokiness from a smoked paprika and creole seasoning that’s mixed into yellow mustard and honey. I am a honey mustard girl at heart. Grilling the veggies adds wonderful smoky flavor, and when you dip them into the smoky honey mustard it really plays up the smoky flavor profile going on!

Ingredients:

Vegetables

• 2 medium/large zucchini, cut on the bias about 1/2-inch thick
• 2 medium/large yellow squash, cut on the bias about 1/2-inch thick
• 1 large red bell pepper, sliced into 3/4-inch wide strips
• vegetables of your choice may be substituted
• 3 tablespoons olive oil
• 1 teaspoon kosher salt, or to taste
• 1 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper, or to taste

Smoky Honey Mustard Dipping Sauce

• 1/4 cup classic yellow mustard
• 1/4 cup honey, or to taste
• 1 to 2 teaspoons smoked paprika, or to taste
• 1 to 2 teaspoons creole seasoning, or to taste
• 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt, optional and to taste