Orecchiette with chorizo, scallops, broad beans, coconut & black vinegar

Name: Orecchiette with chorizo, scallops, broad beans, coconut & black vinegar
Yield: For 6 as a generous starter
Cuisine: Italian
Ingredients: 30 ml (2 Tbsp) olive oil; 30 ml (2 Tbsp) black vinegar (or sherry vinegar or chardonnay vinegar); 200 ml coconut milk; 1 red onion, peeled and thinly sliced; 360 g dried orecchiette; 8-12 scallops (depending on their size); 250 g spicy cooking chorizo, sliced into 5-mm rounds; 250 g podded broad beans; 4 cloves garlic, peeled and roughly chopped; a handful of coriander

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For
6
as a generous starter

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Fusion

By Peter Gordon

Published 2010

About

Orecchiette are lovely ear-shaped pasta originating from Puglia in the heel of Southern Italy. I must admit I used to think they were more like belly buttons than ears, but then it’s tortellini that have that anatomical honour - must be that I have a funny-shaped belly button. Whatever, I have to say that they’re one of my favourite wheat-based pastas as I love the wav that they hold sauce in their cavity and they are usually quite firm to the bite and chewy. They’re mostly produced in smal

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