Grilled Lamb Kebabs

Grilled Lamb Kebabs are ridiculously easy to make, and packed with flavor! The meat is tender and super flavorful thanks to a 5-ingredient marinade. Load up your kebabs with marinated veggies – peppers, onions, and tomatoes. Even grilling beginners can handle this recipe!

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Thanks to our friends at the American Lamb Board for sponsoring this post! All opinions are my own. 

Why you’ll love these Lamb Kebabs:

• Easy Grilling Recipe – If you’ve been intimidated by lamb or by grilling, let this be your introduction to both. It’s SO easy – you really can’t mess it up. Even I feel confident that I can grill this – although I still might need help turning the grill on. 
• Flavor Packed – Every bite of the tender lamb and veggies is packed with flavor from the marinade!

Ingredient Overview:

As always, the full recipe with measurements & directions can be found in the recipe card at the bottom of this post. Use the table of contents (back at the top, below the first image, to navigate).

• Lamb – I used leg meat here. The butcher cut it into kebab-size chunks for me, and cut most of the fat off. If you’re not sure where the lamb you’re purchasing is from, ask your butcher, or use this handy list that the American Lamb Board has put together.
• Veggies – Use bell peppers, onions, and cherry tomatoes, or see substitutions below for more ideas.

Recipe Substitutions & Variations:

• Other Meat – This recipe would also work well with chicken breast!
• Veggies – Feel free to play around with the veggies – zucchini and red onion would be delicious additions!

How to Make Grilled Lamb Kebabs

Step 1: Get your Lamb. First, get yourself some American-produced lamb meat – this will not only ensure that it’s the freshest possible meat, but it also helps support American farmers and their families.

Step 2: Marinate the Lamb. Toss all your marinade ingredients together in a tupperware container, and add the lamb. Marinate this for at least 2 and a half hours, to ensure the most flavor!

Step 3: Marinate the Veggies. Roughly chop your bell peppers and onion into large pieces, and add them (and the cherry tomatoes!) to a separate container with their own marinade. 

Step 3: Soak Skewers. Soak your skewers in water for an hour (while things are marinating) to help prevent them from, you know, bursting into flame on the grill. If you’re using metal skewers this is obviously not an issue. 

Step 4: Make the Skewers. Place alternating pieces of lamb and veggies on the skewers, like pictured below. You’ll want to add a few pieces of veggies between each piece of meat.

Step 5: Grill the Kebabs. Go for medium heat here – you don’t want to char the outside of the meat while keeping the inside raw. Cook for about 3-5 minutes, rotate and repeat.

Cut into one of the larger pieces of meat to make sure it’s done. Since this is red meat, you can, of course, leave it a little pink if that’s your taste. 

Serving + Storing:

Stand back, admire your beautiful grill work (that char!!) and get ready to dig in. Juicy, tender, seasoned lamb and crisp-tender veggies – this is summer grill goals. Serve with a bed of fresh greens dressed in a splash of lemon juice and olive oil.

Love lamb? Make my Lamb Chops or my Lamb Sliders next!

Expert Cooking Tips:

• Marinate – Along with buying good quality lamb, this is the most important part of this recipe! If you don’t marinate the lamb for at least 2.5 hours, it won’t be as amazingly flavorful. 

FAQs:

Special Tools:

• Grill – You’ll need a grill for this recipe. You can also use a grill pan on the stovetop.

More Lamb Recipes to Love:

• Red Wine Braised Lamb Shanks
• Juicy Lucy Lamb Burgers
• Guinness Irish Stew with Lamb
• Greek Grilled Lamb Tacos
• One-Pot Lamb Barbacoa Tacos

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