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

Preparation info

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Salads

By Peter Gordon

Published 2005

About

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