Grilled Sweet Peppers & Onions

This summer is just flying by for me but I am trying to enjoy it as much as possible. Summer for me means lots of outdoor grilling as my kitchen here in Umbria gets very warm if I turn my oven on for any length of time, so I try and do any baking first thing in the morning, and we fire up the grill often to cook dinner. I think almost everything tastes better grilled, and particularly vegetables, as the heat of the grill caramelizes the natural sugars bringing out the best flavor of whatever vegetable you grill. This combination of grilled sweet peppers and onions is a good one as both these vegetables become sweeter when cooked. I serve this dish as a vegetable side dish with grilled meats, but if you drizzle a little balsamic vinegar on top, you could also serve it as a salad.

• Sweet peppers contain vitamin C, thiamine, vitamin B6, beta-carotene and folic acid. Peppers also contain phytochemicals, which are antioxidants that help neutralize free radicals in the body.
• Onions are a very good source of vitamin C, B6, biotin, chromium, calcium and dietary fibre and also contain good amounts of folic acid and vitamin B1 and K.