Seasonal Favourite – Summer Seasonal Cooking Recipes (Part 2) – Charred salad onions with romesco sauce

Charred salad onions with romesco sauce

Charred salad onions with romesco sauce

Charred
salad onions with romesco sauce

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1 hour + cooling

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Serves 4

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Easy

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Vegetarian

Ingredient

      
Romano pepper 1, halved and seeded

      
Tomato 1, halved

      
Olive oil

      
Garlic 2 cloves, crushed

      
Red chilli 1, finely chopped

      
Bread 1 slice, roughly chopped

      
Hazelnuts 50g

      
Blanched almonds 25g

      
Parsley chopped to make 2 tbsp

      
Olive oil 150ml

      
Red wine vinegar 2 tbsp

      
Salad onions 12, roots trimmed

Recipe

1.   
Grill the pepper halves skin-side up until they
start to blister and grill the tomato halves cut-side up until they start to
brown on top. Peel the pepper halves and slip the skin off the tomatoes and
roughly chop them. Heat a little oil in a pan and fry the garlic and chilli
briefly until it softens, add the bread and fry until browned then add
the pepper and tomato. Scrape the lot into a food processor with the nuts and
parsley and pulse until roughly chopped, add the oil, vinegar and a good pinch
of salt and pulse together. Tip into a bowl.

2.   
Heat the grill or a griddle pan and brush the
onions with oil. Griddle or grill them until they blacken on the outside (or
put them over the grey coals of a barbecue). Once blackened, wrap them in
newspaper and leave them for 15 minutes to soften.

3.    Serve them with the sauce. To eat them, slip the cooked onion out of
the outer blackened skin and dip them in the romesco sauce.

Per serving 502kcal | protein 4.9g | carbs 7.1g | fat 50.1g|sat fat
6.4g | fibre 3.1g | salt 0.2g