Chicken, Chorizo and Chickpea Stew
Cooking this for the first time as I write, so no tastiness rating just yet. In typing up the recipe, I realise I failed to halve the 4-person portion of paprika while prepping, so we'll see how that pans out.
Editing to add: tasty but should have been thicker, in my opinion. Added an as-yet-untested note to spoon off some of the fluid from the chopped tomatoes.
Ingredients
- cooking oil
- half a red onion, sliced as finely as you like your onions
- 2 boneless chicken breasts, cut into 3cm pieces
- 2 garlic cloves, sliced as finely as you like your garlic
- half one of those still-sausage-shaped chorizos, not the pre-sliced lunchmeat kind, cut into 1cm pieces
- 1 whole red or yellow pepper, deseeded and sliced as thickly as you like your peppers
- half your usual 400g tin of chopped tomatoes, with a bit of the liquid spooned off
- half a 400g tin of chickpeas, drained and rinsed
- 300g baby potatoes, cut bite-sized
- 1/4 tsp paprika
- 200ml vegetable stock
- however much flat-leaf parsley you can bear to cut off your plant (mine is looking sad at the moment so I took three stalks' worth)
Additions: I use this meal to cut into my stash of frozen nobbies. Three each, chucked in the toaster and buttered. They soak up the slop nicely.
Method
- Bring the oil to medium-high heat in a large saucepan (I used my 40cm cast-iron skillet to cook a two-person meal and that was t i g h t, so I'd advise going larger) and add all the red onion.
↓ 4 minutes (or until the onion's soft) - Add all the chicken and all the garlic, mix them in and keep frying.
↓ 5 minutes (until the chicken has paled out of its pink colour entirely) - Add all the chorizo and all the chopped pepper.
↓ 1 minute - Stir in all the tomatoes, chickpeas, potatoes, paprika and stock. Make sure your potatoes are fully submerged. Bring the stew to the boil, then turn it down to a simmer and partly cover it with a lid.
↓ 25 minutes (until the chicken has cooked through) - Season however you like, stir in 75% of the parsley, serve into bowls and sprinkle the rest of the parsley on top.
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Dates cooked
24/06/2023
Meals with shared short-life ingredients
These are recipes that neatly use up leftover ingredients that would otherwise go off. I tend to cook these together in the same week after a grocery order.
| Leftover | Meal |
|---|---|
| Chicken | Roast Chicken Fajitas Burritos Chicken and Chorizo Stew Creamy Pesto Chicken |
| Chorizo | Chorizo and Mozzarella Gnocchi Chorizo and Butterbean Stew Chicken and Chorizo Stew |
| Gnocchi | Chorizo and Mozzarella Gnocchi |
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