Cooking Tomatoes & Asparagus On The George Foreman Grill

Video Transcript

"My name is Brandon Sarkis on behalf of Expert Village. Today, I am going to show you how to use a George Foreman Grill to make something besides grilled cheese sandwiches and hot dogs. I am taking the asparagus and placed it in a stainless bowl as brushing this asparagus would be way too difficult so I am just going to sit here and coat it like this. A bit of olive oil. Go ahead and take my salt and pepper right on top of this and now I am going to show you how to cook two things at once. So I am just going to sit here and toss this around and make sure that the oil coats it evenly. Not too much oil. If you put too much oil in there, it is going to burn on the outside and is going to taste kind of disgusting. All right so there is all of our asparagus and let's get it on the grill. I'll open up my grill, take a couple slices of tomato here. Can't really beat grilled tomatoes. Put those over there. You don't need to put any oil on the tomatoes. I guess I'll put a little on there. It won't hurt anybody. Some salt there. Once again, pepper. Now we are going to throw our asparagus on. The idea here is that the asparagus and the tomatoes are going to cook at approximately the same rate because the asparagus are so small and the tomatoes are so delicate. So both of these you cook and I would say about three minutes we will be ready to go with both of them. So you can really load up the asparagus because what is going to happen the asparagus is going to heat up and the asparagus is going to start steaming and it will steam itself if it doesn't grill completely. Put the lid on here, give it a little squish and I am going to come back here in a couple of minutes and we are going to have some really awesome grilled asparagus with tomatoes. All right it's been about three minutes. Let's open this up. Look at that, that looks awesome. Nice bright green grilled asparagus. Sacrifice that piece I guess. Also using some heat resistant rubber coated tongs, silicone tongs. These are actually recommended using for the Foreman grill because they won't mark the surface or anything. Over here my tomato. Looks a little smashed; get the special spatula that comes with the Foreman grill. Grilled tomatoes are a little hard to work with because they tend to lose their shape. What you want to do usually, that one kind of fell apart. What you usually want to do is get some tomatoes that are a little harder than usual because as you heat them up, they are going to lose all their firmness and get a little mushy. "