Warm salad of pear, scallop and chorizo

  • Portion size: Serves 4
  • Ready in 20 minutes
  • Difficulty: easy

This pear, scallop and chorizo dish is a warm salad that’s quick, easy and ideal for serving, as a starter, at a dinner party.

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Ingredients

  • 100g chorizo, skinned and thinly sliced
  • 12 fresh scallops, shucked and washed but whole with orange roe left on
  • 2 medium, firm pears, cored and thinly sliced
  • 1 tbsp sherry vinegar
  • Bunch of watercress, washed and destalked
  • 1 tbsp olive oil
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Method

  1. Gently heat a non-stick frying pan. When hot, add the chorizo and dry-fry until just beginning to brown – it will release its own oil after 30 seconds or so. Remove with a slotted spoon and set aside on kitchen paper.
  2. Add the scallops to the pan and sear in the chorizo oil for about 1 minute on each side. Remove and set aside with the chorizo.
  3. Finally, add the pear slices and fry quite briskly to caramelise a little. Once you have turned them, add the vinegar and swirl the pears around in it for a few seconds, then tip it all into a bowl. Add the scallops, chorizo, watercress and oil. Season with salt (not pepper in case the chorizo has a kick of its own). Serve immediately.
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Nutrition

  • 557kcals Calories
  • 21.5g (1.9g saturated) Fat
  • 67.7g Protein
  • 24.4g (15.2g sugars) Carbs
  • 3.5g Salt
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