Chorizo & Olive Skewers
 
 
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Recipe type: Main
Serves: 9
Ingredients
  • 3 fresh chorizo sausages (the hot ones if you like it spicy)
  • 2 red peppers
  • 27 green pitted olives
  • 9 wooden skewers
  • For the marinade:
  • 3 tbsp of olive oil
  • 1 pinch of fresh thyme leaves
  • 1 pinch of dried oregano
  • 1 pinch of cumin
  • For the honey-mustard mayonnaise:
  • 1 free range egg
  • 1 tbsp of vinegar (whichever you have available)
  • 1 pinch of salt
  • 1 tbsp of honey
  • 1 tbsp of mustard (English, French, grain… as you prefer)
  • 50ml of vegetable oil
  • 70 ml of Spanish extra virgin olive oil
Instructions
  1. The mayonnaise:
  2. Put in a bowl, the egg, mustard, honey, vinegar and a pinch of salt and blend with a hand blender. Start adding the oil very slowly while you blend until completely emulsified.
  3. Keep refrigerated until needed.
  4. Cut each chorizo sausage in slices as thick as the olives.
  5. Do the same with the red pepper.
  6. Starting and finishing with the olives, skewer 3 olives, 4 pieces of pepper and 2 of chorizo in each skewer, alternating them.
  7. Mix the marinade ingredients and pour over the skewers in a baking tray.
  8. You can cook them in a medium heat frying pan or just bake under the grill in the oven at 180 degrees for about 10 minutes, turning half way through the cooking time.
  9. Serve the skewers on a tray with the mayo on the side for people to dip as much or as little as they like.
Recipe by Cherished By Me at https://cherishedbyme.com/2016/01/chorizo-olive-skewers-win-an-olive-it-recipe-book/