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Chorizo, quince paste and manchego salad

Name: Chorizo, quince paste and manchego salad
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 10 min
Total time: 20 min
Yield: 4
Ingredients: 2 mild or hot chorizo sausages; 1 teaspoon extra virgin olive oil; 2 heads radicchio, trimmed; 100-150g quince paste, cut into small cubes; 100-150g manchego cheese, shaved; 12 Spanish green olives; 2 tablespoons Spanish almonds, toasted; 1 tablespoon sherry vinegar; 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil

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Chorizo, quince paste and manchego salad

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by Jill Dupleix

Food writer

Oct 03, 2015

This Spanish cafe salad is put together in a loose, casual, manana style – sizzled chorizo mingles with radicchio, olives, almonds, manchego cheese and sweet preserved quince paste.

2 mild or hot chorizo sausages
1 teaspoon extra virgin olive oil
2 heads radicchio, trimmed
100-150g quince paste, cut into small cubes
100-150g manchego cheese, shaved
12 Spanish green olives
2 tablespoons Spanish almonds, toasted

Dressing

1 tablespoon sherry vinegar
2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil

Method

1.

Thinly slice the chorizo on an extreme diagonal. Heat the olive oil in a frypan over medium-high heat and sizzle the chorizo until scorched and curling. Reserve juices for dressing and set chorizo aside.
2.

For the dressing, whisk the sherry vinegar and olive oil in a bowl, season with sea salt and pepper, then add a spoonful of the chorizo juices.
3.

Separate the radicchio leaves, then tear each one roughly into 2 or 3 pieces. Toss the leaves in the dressing and divide among 4 serving plates. Scatter over the chorizo slices, cubes of quince paste, manchego, olives and almonds, then drizzle with any remaining dressing.