Roasted Vegetable Salad with Chorizo
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Cuisine: Mexican
 
A wonderfully tasty roasted vegetable salad with chorizo sausage.
Ingredients
  • 1 small butternut squash, peeled, de-seeded and sliced into 2cm slices
  • 1 red onion - sliced into 1cm slices
  • 1 basket cherry tomatoes - each cut in half
  • 1½ tbsp chipotle chilli ground
  • 1 tbsp mexican oregano
  • ¼ cup extra virgin olive oil
  • small bunch of coriander leaves
  • 2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
  • 250 grams chorizo sausage
  • 2 tbsp olive oil
  • 1tbsp sherry vinegar
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 325F
  2. Place the cut squash into a bowl along with the spices and ¼ cup olive oil.
  3. Swirl around the squash to coat.
  4. Place on a baking tray, leaving the leftover oil and spices in the bowl.
  5. Roast squash for about 1 hour.
  6. When done place squash in salad bowl.
  7. Place cut onion and tomatoes in bowl with the leftover oil and spices and swirl to coat.
  8. Place the red onion, and tomatoes cut side up on roasting tray.
  9. Roast for about 35 minutes.
  10. Once you are satisfied with the tenderness and carmelization of the vegetables, place in the salad bowl with roasted squash.
  11. While all this is happening blend up your coriander with some olive oil to make a sort of pesto. Set aside.
  12. Cut up your chorizo and fry until hot and a bit crispy.
  13. Place the chorizo in the same bowl as the rest of the roast veg.
  14. Drizzle over about 5 tbsp of the coriander (or as much as you want), and about 1 tbsp sherry vinegar (to taste)
Recipe by Roasted at https://www.roastedmontreal.com/2013/03/uber-spice-shop-spice-station-the-best-roast-veg-salad-ever.html