Spanish pasta salad with chorizo and manchego – a flavourful, easy pasta salad.
This Spanish-inspired pasta salad is a little flavour bomb – packed with fried chorizo, black olives, sun-dried tomatoes and grated manchego, with good pasta as the base.
Few ingredients, yet so much flavour that it hardly seems possible.
The chorizo is fried, then garlic and sun-dried tomatoes are added, and it is all tossed with cooked pasta, fresh tomatoes, olives and plenty of fresh parsley and manchego. If you would like to serve it warm, simply cook the pasta just before everything is tossed together. The recipe below is for the cold version.
It can be served as a meal in itself, but it is also perfect as a side for barbecued food, on the tapas table or as part of a buffet. And if you can’t find manchego, another aged, firm cheese works just as well – Vesterhavsost (a Danish aged cheese), mature havarti or Parmesan, for example.
A simple dish with Spanish soul – and one of those that tastes even better the next day.
Spanish pasta salad with chorizo and manchego
Ingredients
- 250 g pasta
- 240 g chorizo, preferably fresh cooking chorizo – diced
- 120 g sun-dried tomatoes in oil, roughly chopped
- 50 ml oil from the sun-dried tomatoes
- 3 cloves garlic, finely chopped
- 250 g cherry tomatoes, halved
- 120 g black olives, halved
- 50 g manchego, finely grated – see intro
- 2 handfuls parsley, finely chopped
- Salt and freshly ground pepper
Method
- Cook the pasta according to the packet instructions in a pan of well-salted water, then rinse it in plenty of cold water. Leave it to drain in a sieve.
- Heat the oil in a frying pan and fry the chorizo for 4-5 minutes over a medium heat.
- Turn the heat right down, add the garlic and sun-dried tomatoes and warm through for a couple of minutes. Remove the pan from the heat.
- Tip the pasta into a bowl along with the contents of the pan, the grated cheese, tomatoes, olives and parsley.
- Toss well and season to taste with salt and freshly ground pepper.
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Tak for opskrift på en lækker og anderledes pastasalat. Jeg serverede den for en veninde til frokost. Vi var begge meget begejstrede over den gode smag !
Hej Jane
Hvor er det dejligt at høre 🙂
Jeg savnede nemlig også en pastasalat der skiller sig lidt ud fra mængden, og synes simpelthen resultatet blev så lækkert 🙂
Warm wishes, Dianna
Mums det var godt. Min søn på 8 spiste 3 portioner hertil aftensmad.
Jeg spurgte om han kunne lide det. Hvortil han svarede ja det smager megagodt.
Hej Elsebeth
Ej hvor er det bare mega dejligt at høre – tusind tak for feedback 🙂
Warm wishes, Dianna