A warming winter stew with attitude (Pork Recipes)

Member Name: paulie1975

Product:	Pork Recipes
Date:	17/02/09 (56 review reads)
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Advantages: Lovely spicy chorizo flavour, cheap, easy to make

Disadvantages: None

Chorizo, Chickpea and Pepper Casserole

This is a really quick and easy recipe with loads of rustic flavour and I personally think its incredibly good for you especially on a cold winters evening like this:

So what you need for this recipe are:

1 Large Teaspoon Olive or Groundnut Oil
1 Large Onion Red/White Diced
I clove Garlic Crushed
1 Red Capsicum diced
1 Green/Yellow or Orange Capsicum diced (You can choose whichever two pepper colours take your fancy really!!)
200g decent Chorizo Sausage, peeled and cut into small chunks
1 tin chickpeas (drained) preferrably 480g tin
1 400g tin of tomatoes
1 cup water
Salt and pepper to season

To begin with heat your large tablespoon of oil in a large pan and fry your onion until its brown. Add the garlic, peppers and chorizo and saute until the peppers are soft and the chorizo is sizzling, you should have incredibly smells coming from your pan.

Add the chickpeas, tomatoes and water season as required and simmer until the sauce has thickened, this should take about 20 minutes.

This should serve 2 people or could serve smaller portions to 3-4 people, I generally serve this with rice and it is warming, full of flavour, has pulses and vegetables for fibre and chorizo for iron.

If you want to add further flavours, thats fine, just keep the tomatoes for the sauce, the onion and some kind of pulse to give it depth and make it really filling and some kind of meat to flavour it to your taste.

One tip, try to buy as good quality chorizo as you can as this is the flavour that overwhelms the sauce and the better quality, the better the casserole, good places to buy are Waitrose, Lidl's, the Tesco/Sainsbury's Deli Counter or a local Meditteranean Deli.

Summary: A warming winter stew with attitude