Warm Salad of Chorizo, Olive, Potato, Peas and Green Beans

Name: Warm Salad of Chorizo, Olive, Potato, Peas and Green Beans
Ingredients: 175 g flour; salt and freshly ground black pepper; 2 tablespoons flour; 2 handfuls of rocket; 2 handfuls of beans, blanched and refreshed in iced water; 400 g small potatoes; vegetable oil for deep-frying; 600 g cooking chorizo (see above); 1 red onion, sliced into 1 cm thick rings; 2 tablespoons olive oil; handful of peas, blanched and refreshed in iced water; 2 tablespoons white vinegar; 2 tablespoons lemon juice or white wine vinegar; large handful of olives; 2 teaspoons sugar; ½ teaspoon salt; 1 heaped teaspoon baking powder; 1 (330 ml) bottle of beer

With Rocket and Crispy Onion Rings

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Salads

By Peter Gordon

Published 2005

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Chorizo is one of the great foodstuffs of the world. It is basically minced or chopped pork mixed with pimenton (a smoked paprika) and then cured. It can be fine or coarse, it ranges from lightly spiced to fiery and some doesn’t need cooking. However, for this recipe (and the one) you need to find chorizo perilla – basically ‘cooking chorizo’. The onion rings are the sort you’d normally get with steak and chips in an American diner (although these are much

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