Chorizo and White Bean Salad
Our friend Ryan likes to entertain but his cooking skills are low. He recruited us to teach him a couple of simple, but elegant dishes. Also see Ryan learning to make Fennel Poached Halibut with peas and butter clams
chopping chorizo
frying chorizo
slicing red onion
slicing tomatoes
chopping parsley
beans added
adding chorizo
with chorizo added
ready to eat
serving the salad
the finished product

 

serves four as a first course

Ingredients:
12 Campari or 20 cherry tomatoes
2 large chorizo sausages
1/2 bunch flat-leaf parsley
500 ml of white beans (white kidney, cannelli or butter beans)
1/4 medium red onion
 
dressing:
1 clove minced garlic
juice of 1 lemon
1/2 tsp paprika
2 tbsp olive oil
salt and pepper (season to taste, but this salad likes a hefty serving of salt and pepper)
 
Method:
1. Slice chorizo and fry at a high heat, until the sausage is crispy on the outside. (Keep your eye on the pan, the sausage can cook and burn quickly.)
2. Slice onion finely and place in a mixing bowl.
3. Halve or quarter the tomatoes (depending on size) and place in the mixing bowl with the onions.
4. Roughly chop parsley and place in bowl with onions and tomato.
5. Drain and rinse beans; add to salad mixture.
6. Add warm chorizo, including some of the fat in the pan.
7. Add the lemon juice, oil, salt, pepper, minced garlic and paprika. 
8. Toss salad and serve.
 
 
 

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