Chorizo carbonara

Ingredients

Salad

  • 25 gr. pine nuts
  • 1 red chicory
  • 1 green chicory
  • 2 clementines
  • 100 gr. baby spinach
  • 4 sprigs of fresh mint
  • 45 gr. Manchego cheese
  • 2 tablespoons sherry vinegar
  • 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
  • 1 teaspoon runny honey

Pasta

  • 320 gr. dried penne
  • 70 gr. Iberico chorizo
  • ½–1 fresh red chilli
  • 2 sprigs of fresh rosemary
  • olive oil
  • 4 cloves of garlic
  • 1 large free-range egg
  • ½ a lemon
  • 2 heaped tablespoons fat-free natural yoghurt

Method

  1. Toast the pine nuts in the frying pan for a few minutes, tossing often.
  2. Put the pasta into the lidded pan, cover with boiling salted water and cook according to packet instructions.
  3. Finely slice the stalk ends of the chicory and click apart the upper leaves into a serving bowl.
  4. Peel and finely slice the clementines, add to the bowl with the baby spinach, then pick over the mint leaves.
  5. Shave over a tiny bit of Manchego and scatter with the hot nuts, returning the frying pan to a medium heat
  6. In a cup, make your dressing with the vinegar, extra virgin olive oil and honey, then season to taste and put aside.
  7. Finely slice the chorizo, chilli and rosemary leaves and put into the frying pan with 1 teaspoon of olive oil and a pinch of pepper, then squash in the unpeeled garlic through a garlic crusher and move everything around until lightly golden
  8. Beat the egg, lemon juice, yoghurt and remaining finely grated Manchego together in a bowl.
  9. Drain the pasta, reserving a cupful of the starchy cooking water.
  10. Toss the pasta into the chorizo pan, remove from the heat and mix well with the creamy sauce, loosening with a splash of cooking water, if needed, then season to taste.
  11. Dress and toss the salad, then serve with the pasta
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