Recipe: Sweet Pineapple and Pork Kebabs

I'm from Alberta, where the bbq'ing season is short and sweet -- unless of course you bbq in the snow, which many an Albertan is known to do! One thing I love about bbq season is that it makes meal planning so much easier. Choose your meat, choose your veggies, season, plop on bbq and voila!

I've been craving shish kebabs a lot lately and thought I'd share this easy, healthy recipe that we've bbq'd a few times already this year! These are so delicious -- I've seen Gemma down an entire kebab in a sitting, which is saying something since dinnertime is usually the most challenging meal of the day with our little girl.

Sweet Pineapple and Pork Kebabs
Makes 8-10 kebabs

Cut the following ingredients into 1 inch chunks:
1 pork tenderloin (chicken breasts would work well too)
1 medium pineapple
1-2 green bell peppers, or any variety of peppers
1 red onion
1 pint cherry tomatoes (don't chop these)

Honey (for brushing on the kebabs)

Thread the ingredients onto shish kebab skewers, alternating between ingredients (remember that if you use wood skewers you need to soak them in water prior to threading the veggies and placing on the bbq).

Season with salt and pepper and bbq until tenderloin is cooked.
As you bbq, brush the kebabs with honey and rotate. Use as much honey as you wish, but I like these kebabs sweet, so I am generous with it.

Serve on a bed of rice, or, for an even healthier option, quinoa. A little dash of soya sauce goes well on the rice/quinoa.

If you have lots of pineapple leftovers, try grilling the extra pineapple for dessert--always a hit in our house! You can find many recipes for seasoned, grilled pineapple online.

Let me know if you try it!

To healthier and happier mealtimes!

♥ Dion