#17 Spanish Salad with Chorizo, Olives and Fresh Cherry Tomatoes

I learned how to make this salad during the Cooking with Olives cooking class offered by Olives from Spain. I wrote more about it in this post.

The warm salad is very easy to make and a great warming dish especially when it's cold.

The recipe is adapted from the one we cooked in the course. I chose to add some fresh cherry tomatoes and I think they worked great adding just a little bit of freshness and sourness to finish the hole dish.

Products:

(Serves 2:)

400 g new potatoes - parboiled

120 g chorizo for cooking

100 gr black marinated olives

a handful (around 150 gr) cherry tomatoes

a handful of freshly chopped coriander leaves

zest of 1/2 lemon

Dressing:

30 ml (2 tbsp) olive oil

2 tsp Spanish cherry vinegar

1/4 tsp freshly ground cumin

1/4 tsp sugar (optional)

Method:

In a pan without oil fry the chorizo chopped at bite size pieces. The chorizo will release its own fat so don't add oil for the moment. Fry for some 4-5 minutes.

In the meantime chop the parboiled new potatoes to quarters and add to the pan. Continue to fry for more 3-4 minutes.

In another bowl grind the cumin seeds and rate the lemon zest. Add the oil and cherry vinegar. Blend well and add to the potatoes and chorizo. Stop the heat, mix carefully. Sprinkle the olives and coriander leaves. Mix again and serve.

You can check a video for this salad here (the second recipe).

You can check a video for this salad here (the second recipe).

Olives from Spain cooking class at Food at 52

Back in August a friend was very kind to offer me the prize she won in a draw during Food Bloggers Connect 2011. And this prize was a one-day cooking class of Spanish food with young and talented chef Omar Allibhoy.

And this friend was Artemis from Wonderfoodland. And the cooking course was offered by Olives from Spain.

The cooking course took place at the popular and personal Food at 52 cookery school in London.

It was 4 hours of fun with nice people, delicious olives, amazing food, great Spanish wines and bold flamenco music.

I enjoyed every second if it! All the food we cooked was so delicious I hurried to prepare it at home as well!

Actually I think cooking experience is a great gift idea, even for beginner cooks!

On the day we cooked:

1. Orange zest and olive pate chocolate truffles

2. Fried queen olives stuffed with Manchego cheese (check the official video of Olives from Spain below)

3. Braised Andalusian chicken with olives

4. Amanida salad

5. Chorizo salad

6. Pan fried sea bass with olives and piquillo peppers

The video I recorded with my iphone has more atmospheric purpose that actually showing exactly the whole recipes. Actually I was supposed to be cooking there and taking high quality pictures or video is a demanding business which means I would not be able to cook. So I just took the iphone with me and tried to record as much as I could in the meantime.

I am going to give some of the recipes I cooked at home in later posts.

I hope you're going to enjoy it!

And the professional video recipe for the Manchego Stuffed Queen Olives: