The man who doesn’t need to wow anyone with his culinary skills should make a quick and simple grilled cheese! a clever technique for producing grilled cheese without a stove.
| Prep Time: | 5 mins |
| Cook Time: | 30 mins |
| Total Time: | 35 mins |
| Servings: | 4 |
Ingredients
- 1 lemon, quartered
- 2 large artichokes
- ¾ cup olive oil
- 4 cloves garlic, chopped
- 1 teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon ground black pepper
Instructions
- Fill a large bowl with cold water. Squeeze juice from one lemon wedge into water. Trim tops and stems from artichokes, cut in half from top to bottom and scoop out the choke; place halves into the bowl of lemon water to prevent them from turning brown.
- Bring a large pot of water to a boil. Add artichokes to boiling water, and cook until tender, about 15 minutes. Drain.
- Meanwhile, preheat an outdoor grill for medium-high heat.
- To make the basting and dipping sauce: Squeeze remaining lemon wedges into a medium bowl; stir in olive oil and garlic, and season with salt and pepper.
- Brush artichokes with a coating of lemon-garlic dipping sauce; place on the preheated grill and cook, basting with sauce and turning frequently, until the tips are a little charred, 5 to 10 minutes. Serve immediately with remaining lemon-garlic sauce.
Reviews
Delicious fast and easy!
this is a really delicious recipe!! We did think the artichokes could have boiled for a few minutes less, and we added more garlic. The result was fantastic!
Simple ingredients always fresh and best!
I really enjoyed this recipe! It was very simple to make and turned out fantastic. I grated the garlic when I added it to the lemon juice and oil and the kind of chunkyness made it better to me, but I love garlic. I may try boiling the artichoke whole next time instead of cutting them first, then halving them before grilling. Note that I basted twice on each side (flipping twice) and I used all of the baste. Next time I may make some additional for dipping, but honestly I’m not sure it was really necessary. We enjoyed it so much we forgot to get pictures. 🙁
I don’t understand why the recipe calls for 3/4 cup of olive oil. There was too much oil in the dip for the lemon or garlic flavors to come through at all and you could probably get away with 1/4 cup and still have extra. I gave three stars because this is a nice way to prepare the artichokes and the texture was good.
OMG this was so good I have never had grilled artichokes before. A couple thoughts: when you make your basting sauce divide it immediately that way you have some for dipping and basting. If you run out of basting ( you can always add more oil since you have all that chopped garlic in it ) I did add some balsamic but only to the basting sauce and I added some avocado Mayo(1/2 tsp to each the dipping sauce bowls). lastly if you don’t know you have to take out the choke then you shouldn’t be cooking artichokes!
They came out great! No changes to the recipe, but you must clean out the choke before serving. Easiest to do after you cook them.
Only 3 stars due to the lack of explaining of how to clean/prep the artichokes (never made them before, so I had to look up a video after reading comments here about removal of the “fluff”) and also for the amount of oil. I had 4 artichokes so I doubled the recipe and found that there was so much oil – way too much for me. Also, my garlic ended up burned since the recipe said to use chopped. I used another reviewer’s suggestion of baking them in the oven since my grill was not available. The flavor was very good, but way too greasy due to the amount of oil. Luckily they were gobbled up so there was no waste, but I doubt I will use this recipe again and instead opt for steaming or baking/grilling with much less oil.
A little too oily
So savory! This is our new method of enjoying artichokes. It is reasonably easy and actually takes less time.
So much work! I’d make again, but not often. It was very good and tender. The dipping sauce was very good. I actually added the left over sauce to pasta the next day.
Perfect balance of flavors. Love this recipe.
I also steamed my artichoke instead of boiling for grilling. I gave this 4 stars because the marinade/dipping sauce was a bit bland until I added grated parmesan cheese. That would have made it 5 stars, I urge anyone to try it. So good!
This is a very simple recipe to make and is wonderful on the grill as a main course.
I did everything as stated, but I added some wood chips to my grill. The Smokey flavor was so yummy. Didn’t even need to dip before eating!
Delicious! Can’t wait to make them again!
So good! The smoky taste was so different from artichokes I’ve had in the past!
These are the bomb-diggity! Whenever we make these, they’re devoured instantly! Wouldn’t change a thing! I do serve it with a paprika aioli, just to indulge a little extra.
delicious and easy
Honestly the best grilled artichoke ever!
Simple and yummy! Will definitely make again.