Chorizo Butterbeans

Chorizo Butter beans

This is a warm and tasty dish that is great soul warming food with plenty of flavour.

Ingredients

One Chorizo
2 cloves of garlic
2 tablespoons of olive oil
3 sticks of celery
one red pepper
6 cherry tomatoes
a small handfull of French beans
sea salt
tin of butter beans
sprig of fresh thyme

Method

Place the olive oil and chopped garlic in a saucepan and gently heat from cold. This should soften the garlic and it is important to start adding the celery before the garlic starts to fry, do so in a manner that keeps the pan from getting too hot.

After a minute or so add the chorizo, roughly chopped into one pound coin size bits. The better the chorizo the better the dish - I have used the cheapest in the supermarket and found it to be sadly lacking in flavour or good texture.

Let the paprika and fat leach out of the chorizo before adding the thyme, tomatoes (halved) and red pepper (roughly chopped). After the pan has come back up to the heat add the tin of butter beans (drained and rinsed in cold water.

Make sure everything gets a good coating of oil and heats through. Add the French beans, salt and some more chopped thyme about a minute before serving.

This went brilliantly with the Foccacia that was a wonderful way of mopping up the flavoursome juices.