Chorizo with Tomatoes and Chickpeas
Sometimes the simplest meals are the best. This quick and easy supper dish is superb served on it’s own, but you could also serve chorizo with tomatoes and chickpeas alongside some grilled chicken
At the heart of this recipe lies the natural merging of chorizo, rich with oily paprika, tomatoes, chargrilled peppers (from a jar!) and chickpeas, just waiting to soak up all those flavours.
An Easy Supper Dish
I love food that is easy to prepare, that yields leftovers and can be made from store cupboard ingredients. This chorizo with chickpeas recipe, borrowed from Tamasin Day Lewis’s Good Tempered Food ticks all of those boxes. If you really can’t be bothered to cook, this is as no-fuss prep as it gets, just chop an onion and some chorizo, everything else is just open a tin or a jar.
Lately I have suffering from what I could refer to as a low-key melancholy, not particularly triggered by anything but just a feeling that life is a bit meh. I probably need a holiday, but when I feel like this, I also need the simplest of food to prepare.
The original recipe, in true Tamasin style, requires you to cook your chickpeas from dried in passata and to use expensive jarred peppers. Listen, none of us have got time for that and I used tinned chickpeas and tomatoes and supermarket own jarred peppers and this dish was still sensational, minus all the faff of cooking dried chickpeas.
Store Cupboard Ingredients
What do you need for this recipe? I usually have most of these ingredients tucked away in my fridge or on my shelves just waiting for this kind of recipe.
- Chorizo
- Jarred Peppers
- Tinned Tomatoes
- Chickpeas
- Onion and Garlic
- Paprika
Customise your Dish
- If you don’t want to use chickpeas, butter beans or cannellini beans will work just as well.
- To make the dish veggie, simply omit the chorizo (or use a vegan chorizo).
How to Serve
I served this with hot buttered toasted sourdough and sat with a large bowl on my lap watching reruns of Mindhunter on Netflix. That said, you could serve this with some grilled chicken or pork chops to make it more of a family meal.
If you love speedy one pan suppers, try these easy recipes:
Chorizo and Beans
INGREDIENTS
- 1 Onion medium, peeled and finely chopped
- 3 Garlic cloves, peeled and finely chopped
- 200 g Chorizo cut into chunks
- 1 tbsp Olive oil
- 150 g Peppers chargrilled, from a jar, chopped into large pieces
- 1 400g Chick peas tinned, drained
- 1 tsp Paprika
- 1 400g Tomatoes tinned
- Seasoning to taste
INSTRUCTIONS
- In a frying pan, sauté the onion, garlic and chorizo chunks over medium heat, stirring regularly. Don't let them burn, just let them soften and the chorizo to give up its oily juices.
- Now add in the drained chick peas, chopped jarred peppers and paprika. Stir well and cook over low heat for another couple of minutes to allow the chick peas to absorb all that paprika flavour.
- Now add the tinned tomatoes, stir well and simmer over low heat for 10-15 minutes until thickened.
- Taste for seasoning.
- Serve with some sourdough toast!
