Trying to eat less meat or looking for something different to serve to vegetarian guests at your dinner parties? Incredibly versatile, great on the BBQ or cooked in the oven, these sweet and sour halloumi skewers are packed full of flavour that even the passionate carnivores in your life wouldn’t miss the meat.
As part of my mission to get back on track with nourishing my body with wholesome food and feeling healthy again, I’m trying to eat less meat. I don’t want to become a vegetarian, but I definitely want to tackle my meat consumption. With a meat loving husband, we were eating meat every night, which is fine, however, it was making me feel heavy and ‘meh’. The past couple of weeks, I’ve tried out different recipes that can easily be adapted to suit both our diets without draining too much of my time or energy. I’m thinking along the lines of simple healthy vegetarian meals that you can easily add meat to, like a stir fry.
Now my love for halloumi cheese has no end, it’s delicious. The fact that it doesn’t melt when cooked means that it can be used in so many dishes. I normally fry it in a pan and use it to top a salad, however, halloumi is great at taking on different flavours and its inherent saltiness works so well with fruity flavours, like the pineapple used in this recipe.
Sweet and sticky skewers that are great to serve to your vegetarian guests or even meat eaters, who won't even miss the meat after trying one.
- 225 g halloumi cheese
- 2 red onions
- 1 red pepper
- 1 yellow pepper
- 1 pineapple
- 4 tbsp tomato puree
- 2 tbsp white wine vinegar
- 3 tbsp soy sauce
- 2 garlic cloves minced
- thumb size piece of ginger grated
- 2 tsp chilli flakes
- 3 tbsp honey
- juice of 1 lime
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Preheat the oven to 180 degrees. Soak the kebab skewers in water so that they don't burn while cooking.
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Mix all of the sweet and sour sauce ingredients together in a large bowl until well combined. Set aside.
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Cut the red onions into quarters and the peppers and halloumi cheese into large chunks. Prepare the pineapple and slice into chunks. Place everything in the bowl with the sauce, making sure everything is well coated.
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Take the skewers and thread on the vegetables, pineapple, and cheese.
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Bake in the oven for 18-20 minutes. Turn over half way through cooking and brush over any left over sweet and sour sauce.
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Serve warm and enjoy!
These look so vibrant and summery when cooked and are delicious served as with a simple salad, flat breads and lightly spiced sweet potato wedges. Even my meat loving hubby was satisfied with these and didn’t question the fact that there was no meat on his plate. These got a big thumbs up from him and our 2-year old son too. It always makes me happy when we sit down for dinner and everyone’s plates are empty.
The sun doesn’t have to shine to make these either. Even though they’re great on the BBQ, you can also cook bake them in the oven like I did if you’re not confident with a griddle pan to cook them indoors. They took about 20 minutes to cook and they get all charred around the edges, but still, retain their bite and become deliciously sticky from the sauce. The pineapple caramelises which intensifies its sweetness and the halloumi cheese soaks up all the flavour from the sweet and sour marinade.
Yes halloumi it’s a great product like paner in India you could have it tandoori. Paner it’s cow milk Halloumi it’s a mix milk of two animals other than cow. So another option for another taste. Good recipe. Thanks
Thank you. I love paneer too, but don’t cook with it enough.
They look absolutely delicious! My favourite Vegetarian meal is red pepper cous cous!
Your cous cous dish sounds amazing.
Oh I love halloumi but never really know what to do with it! These look delicious!
It can be used in so many different ways, but it can be hard to know what to do with it.
These skewers sound absolutely delish 😀 perfect veggie option at a BBQ!
Thanks Nadia!
Oh my goodness, these sound and look delicious. I adore halloumi and sweet & sour and the idea of them together is heavenly. Pinning this to my veggie food board!
Thank you for pinning. ? I do love this combination.
I’ve just started to have a halloumi addiction, isn’t it such a versatile cheese, I wonder if my other half would be into trying it this way as he adores sweet and sour.
Yes, I love to versatility!
These sound fantastic and make a great looking dish too. I must try this when I get some halloumi in.
Thank you so much!
What a creative meatless idea. The sweet and sour sauce is a nice twist on skewers.
Thank you!
I love Halloumi cheese – it has such a meaty texture x
It does have a meaty texture unlike other cheeses.
I still haven’t tried halloumi… Not once… I really should give it a go, because everyone says it is really nice.
You really should give it a go. So yummy!
I absolutely love halloumi so I’m always making things like this but I love the sound of the sweet and sour x
It’s a lovely twist! ?
Well I can’t resist halloumi, so yes please to one or three of these skewers. I tend to just cook halloumi plain, so I realise I need to up my game and try something different.
I normally do that too, so these made a nice change.
I have never thought about flavouring halloumi before, but this has given me so many ideas.
I love Halloumi, although I still can’t get myself used to the texture no matter how much I eat it. These sound delicious, I’ll definitely have to give them a try at some point
I first had halloumi a few years months ago and have been slightly addicted since. It’s such a versatile cheese plus it tastes absolutely amazing 🙂
It’s such an amazing cheese!
This dish looks so good, and the recipe doesn’t seem to hard to conquer.
Thanks! 🙂
Honestly, This is the first time that I heard this recipe and it really looks yummy and healthy, I would love to try this
Thank you!
Thank you! 🙂
This recipe is awesome! Easy and fun as an appetizer, just what I need!
Thanks so much.
I absolutely LOVE halloumi and these seem like such a delicious alternative to having chicken kebabs on a BBQ! Xxx
Another halloumi fan! Yay!
The halloumi skewers look delicious with the vibrant coloured vegetables. If all meals were as tasty and interesting this I’d happily give up meat.