Home » Meat & poultry

Spiced sausage salad

You won't be left hungry after this filling salad and it's full of flavour thanks to the spicy chorizo sausage!

Prep time: 5 mins
Cooking time: 20 mins
Serves: 4

What you need:

• 1 (160g) bag Bistro salad leaves
  
• 450g/1lb baby new potatoes, halved
  
• 150g/5oz chorizo sausage, sliced
  
• 1 red onion, chopped
  
• 1 green chilli, deseeded and sliced
  
• 30ml/2 tbsp balsamic vinegar
  
• Pinch of caster sugar
  
• Salt and freshly ground black pepper

What you do:

1. Cook the potatoes in boiling salted water for 10-15mins or until tender. Drain, rinse in cold water and leave to cool.
   
2. Heat a non-stick frying pan add the chorizo and sauté for 3mins or until the sausage is golden. Remove the pan from the heat, lift out the sausages with a slotted spoon.
   
3. Return the pan to the heat add the onion and chilli and sauté for 2 mins. Add the balsamic and sugar and sizzle for 30 seconds. Remove from the heat and season to taste.
   
4. Empty the salad leaves in a large bowl, add the potatoes, chorizo, onion and chilli mix and toss well. Serve with crusty bread.

This page can be found at: http://www.secretsauce.co.uk/meat-poultry/sausage-recipes/chorizo-sausage-salad/

A short link can also be used to view this page: http://bit.ly/gfTeVt

Bring on the salads

Salad bags are a great way to help you towards the recommended daily intake of fruit and vegetables, whether as a crunchy side dish, a refreshing starter, or a filling main course. Just one cereal bowl (80g) of salad leaves counts as one of our five portions of fruit and veg, making a salad recipe one of the easiest, most convenient and hassle free ways to achieve your ‘5-a-day’.