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Chorizo and Chickpea Soup

This is such a simple recipe, so cheap to make too I hesitated to add it to the blog but as I await my online shopping delivery the contents of my fridge is currently somewhat limited, half a chorizo sausage, onions, garlic and tomatoes. With a few basic ingredients you can cook this up in under 30 minutes and it costs about £0.50 per portion, perfect for a not-quite-pay-day-recipe. Top with some grated cheese of your choice and eat, it's delicious, warming and for my non chilli eating friends, deeply flavoured with smoked paprika rather than my kick-ass levels of chilli.

Ingredients

100g chorizo, chopped into bitesize pieces
1 large onion, chopped finely
2 cloves garlic, grated
3 tsp smoked paprika
1 red chilli, whole, spiked to release flavour without heat
1 tin chickpeas, drained and rinsed
1 large potato, cut into chunks
750 ml chicken stock
1 tbsp tomato puree
2 fresh tomatoes, chopped
1 red pepper
Handful of chopped parsley
Salt and pepper to taste
Grated cheese to taste

Method

• In a tiny amount of oil fry off chorizo until crispy around the edges and remove from the pan.
• In the residual oil fry off the onion until translucent, then add garlic and smoked paprika, fry for a further 2 minutes.
• Add the cubed potato, whole red chilli, red pepper, tomato puree, chickpeas and tomatoes, cook on medium heat for 5 minutes.
• Add chicken stock and half the chorizo and let simmer for about 30 minutes or until potatoes are fully cooked.
• Remove whole chilli and discard
• Season to taste, top with remaining chorizo, add herbs and serve in bowls with grated cheese.