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    Charred salad onions with romesco sauce

    • Preparation time: 10 minutes
    • Cooking time: 15 minutes
    • Total time: 25 minutes 25 minutes

    Serves: 4 as a starter

    Ingredients

    60g blanched almonds
    4 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
    1 medium tomato, halved
    1 garlic clove, sliced
    1 slice day-old white bread, roughly torn into pieces
    2 jarred roasted red peppers
    1⁄2 tsp sweet smoked paprika
    1 tbsp sherry vinegar
    2 bunches salad onions
    1⁄2 x 25g pack flat leaf parsley, roughly chopped 

    Method

    1 Make the romesco sauce ahead of time if you can. Put a large frying pan over a medium heat and add the almonds. Cook for 2-3 minutes, until light golden, then tip onto a plate and set aside to cool. Drizzle 2 tbsp oil into the pan over the heat. Put the tomato halves in the pan, cut-side down. After 2 minutes, add the garlic and torn bread. Fry until light golden, then spoon into a food processor. Add the cooled almonds, red peppers and sweet smoked paprika. Season and whizz until coarsely chopped. Stir in the sherry vinegar and the remaining 2 tbsp oil. Chill for 2 hours before serving.
    2 When ready to serve, set a griddle pan over a high heat. Trim the salad onions and griddle for a few minutes on each side until nicely charred. Spoon the romesco onto a platter and top with the salad onions. Scatter over the parsley leaves, season and serve.

     

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    Waste not: Roasted peppers

    These have a lovely smoky sweetness. Thinly slice and toss through salad leaves with fried chorizo, new potatoes and a sherry vinegar dressing.

     

     

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