Spicy Chicken and Chorizo Stew
Wednesday 25 March 2015
It's felt like years since we last blogged, even though it has only been little over a week! Life gets in the way sometimes, and quite a lot of the time it's pretty difficult to plan things to cook for the blog as I'm in Sheffield at Uni and Caitlin's at home. I feel like we are getting into the rhythm of blogging, not sounding too blunt and being a bit softer. Neither of us are that impressive with English (unlike our English obsessed sister) so it's still definitely a getting there process for us. I never want blogging for me or Caitlin to feel pressurised or not fun anymore. It's a hobby we can do together and I love that, considering we're apart for weeks at a time. So I'll stop boring you all with our lives and it's onto the recipe!
Whilst I was sat at work, I couldn't stop thinking about beans and chorizo. Considering one of my passionate food hells is baked beans I thought this was a bit coco bananas! But it got to the point where it was nigh on obsessive, and as I was due to go food shopping anyway I thought why the heck not buy some stuff and mash it together and see what happens! So what was created was the chicken and chorizo stew. I'm not really sure why it is called a stew, but to be honest I couldn't think of a more suitable name for this! It's based on tomato and has a heck lot of garlic and chilli in for flavour and a nice warm kick up the bum! I used a small tin of cannelloni beans for this, alongside some chorizo sausage and turkey (I used turkey as it was cheaper in the shops but can be made with either chicken or turkey!). It really filled me up and I missed the feeling of being full up but in a healthier way, and not just from KFC (which may or may not have been happening far too often recently). The tomato makes for a delicious base to the dish and everything else compliments beautiful, and would even taste delicious with added bacon or no chilli if you wished! Quite a lot of the amounts here are rough estimates, just splash however much you want in of everything to your own tastes! We hope you all enjoy!
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| Spicy Chicken and Chorizo Stew |
Ingredients:
-splash of oil for the pan-
-500g chicken or turkey, diced-
-2 small chorizo sausages-
-50g onion-
-1 small tin of cannelloni beans-
-1 large tin of tomatoes-
-1 small tin of sweetcorn-
-30g tomato puree-
-30g crushed chilli-
-30g garlic puree-
Method to the madness:
1) Pop oil into pan, and add the diced meat, chorizo sausage and onions. Cook for 3-4 minutes until the meat is cooked through.
2) Add in the beans, sweetcorn and tomato, stir through.
3) Add in your garlic, tomato puree and chilli, stir again and simmer down for around 10 minutes.
-30g crushed chilli-
-30g garlic puree-
Method to the madness:
1) Pop oil into pan, and add the diced meat, chorizo sausage and onions. Cook for 3-4 minutes until the meat is cooked through.
2) Add in the beans, sweetcorn and tomato, stir through.
3) Add in your garlic, tomato puree and chilli, stir again and simmer down for around 10 minutes.
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| Look at that beautiful uni hall stove, so pretty... |
4) When reduced down, meat cooked and the flavour is what you require, take off the heat, pop in your bowl and tuck in!
So in under 20 minutes you should be left with a super simple, quick and hearty meal, enough to feed 2-3 people depending on sides! As you can see I enjoyed mine with a cider and I regret nothing!
We hope you enjoy!
Happy Baking!
xoxox
