Chorizo Pumpkin Salad
I admit I am throwing posts together these days like nobody’s business…I have been a bit busy! We have launched For Foods Sake, and are in a mad panic about how to get the book out as quickly as possible to all the fans out there who are ordering like there is no tomorrow. Its great, but rendering me sleepless in Perth again…as I crazily rush from project to project….bear with me if we take a couple of days to get the book to you. So far so good! DO YOU LIKE IT??? (let me know either on here or facebook!) We are loving it! The other thing that is going gang busters is our little app, which rated a mention in both the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age papers. Hope you have that organised. Dinners never were so easy as they are with Spin-A-Dinner…the app that could! Of course, if you are iPhone-less, you can always order the book as a combo with For Foods Sake and get over 100 recipes, all with full colour pics…a Thermomixer’s idea of heaven, I would have thought!
Another dinner, this recipe is hardly rocket science; easy, quick and delicious with minimum fuss for hot weather. If you don’t want to turn on the oven, just leave the pumpkin out. You can change it up by adding more or less of anything, to suit your family size…I did a large salad, and we had it for lunch the next day. This is my idea of delicious…hope you like it.
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Need
- 70 Grams cubed pumpkin per serving
- Honey and oil to taste
- Sea salt
- 2 chorizo sausages, sliced
- 1/4 small red onion, thinly sliced
- 200 Grams baby spinach leaves or as needed
- 400 Grams tin of butter beans, drained
- 200 Grams bocconccini cheese(s)
- 1 small lebanese cucumber sliced on the angle
- A few fresh oregano leaves
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Olive Tapenade
- 150 Grams kalamata olives, pitted
- 1 clove of a garlic
- 30 Grams Extra Virgin Olive Oil (EVOO) Fini EVOO BUY
- 40 Grams lemon juice, fresh
- Pinches sea salt (optional)
Do
- 1
Roast pumpkin in hot oven (220ºC+) drizzled with honey and a little oil and salt for about 25-30 minutes or until golden and caramelised.
- 2
Place chorizo into Thermomix bowl and saute 20 min/Varoma/Reverse + speed 1. Remove from bowl and retain the oil from the sausage in the thermomix bowl.
- 3
To make tapenade place all ingredients into Thermomix bowl with chorizo oil and blend 10 sec/speed 6. Taste and add salt if needed.
More
Assemble salad with all ingredients, topping with cooked chorizo, pumpkin and then drizzling with tapenade. Serve immediately.
Tenina Holder is a wife, mother of five and grandmother of eight, who started cooking in the olden days before Thermomix was even a thing.
Tenina has become the premium go to source for all Thermomix expertise and of course fresh and easy recipes that work. Her cooking classes and foodie trips are sold out in literally hours, her cookbooks appear on the Australian best seller lists and her social reach is in the millions. Her Insider Club is the most fun you can have with a Thermomix and you really should join her! She believes chocolate, butter and salt are health foods. Her food positivity mantra is, eat everything, just not all at once!
