Warm salad of Toulouse sausage Dish with a difference

NOT the conventional salad you might expect – I’m using Toulouse sausages. These are really tasty pork sausages from the Midi-Pyrenees in

France – probably the nicest we have sampled for a while – although you could use any type of sausage that you have in the fridge.

3-4 Toulouse sausages

8 slices chorizo

8 Charlotte potatoes

3-4 shallots

1 bunch chives

100ml vinaigrette

1 pkt mixed salad leaves

Cook the potatoes. When cooked, drain and let them cool, then dice evenly and pop in the fridge to harden.

Place the chorizo on a tray, ready to be put under the grill for a few minutes before serving. Slice the Toulouse sausage evenly, then place on a tray (there should be five pieces a portion) and cook under the grill on both sides.

Peel and chop the shallots finely, then chop the chives finely. Add to the potatoes and then add the vinaigrette.

Put the potato salad in the middle of the plate, place the five pieces of Toulouse sausage around the outside of the plate, then the chorizo pieces in between.

Put a little vinaigrette through the mixed salad leaves, then place a pile in the middle of the plate.

Brian Maule at Chardon d’Or Restaurant, 176 West Regent Street, Glasgow, G2 4RL Telephone 0141 248 3801 email: info@ brianmaule.com website: www.brianmaule.com