Chorizo and Mushroom Tapa

A simple dish of sliced chorizo sausage, with quartered mushrooms, halved cherry plum tomatoes, diced onion, and some chopped basil leaves.

The chorizo slices were put into into a non-stick omelette pan first, at a medium heat, and all the other ingredients were cooked in the fat which emerges from the sausage. Add the vegetables when there is sufficient fat in the pan. The diced onion was added first, followed a little later by the mushroom quarters, and then the cherry plum tomato halves.

The ingredients were regularly kept on the move. The basil leaves were added shortly before the dish was ready to serve. The dish should be ready within ten minutes at a medium heat, when the mushrooms begin to brown.

Served with a dusting of freshly ground black pepper. Great flavour from the paprika in the sausage!