Make ordinary beans spectacular by cooking it in this amazing creamy sauce! Serve beans with perfectly cooked chorizo and crusty bread YUM!
So it’s time for ‘Cat to get back to basics’, meaning let’s get back to easy cooking with tasty results!
In acknowledgment of Australia Day, I posted a couple of not so straight forward recipes. The LAMINGTON CAKE was fun to make but can get real messy. I also posted my AUSSIE BEEF PIE which required a few steps. Although I believe the lamington and pies were not too difficult, I would have to admit they’re not as easy as most of my previous recipes.
There is nothing easier than creating a delicious meal from canned beans and fried chorizo.
We basically throw the beans in an addictive homemade creamy tomato sauce. Fry up some flavourful chorizo and rip open fresh crusty bread, and ‘voilà’ like magic we’ve created something rather special!
Ordinary canned beans are transformed into creamy savoury bites of deliciousness. The chorizos slices are seared until they are crispy and caramelised.
This may be my new favourite breakfast! Incredibly delicious, budget friendly, nutritious and simple to make!
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Bean it up, man!
Beans, beans and more beans that’s what we should be eating!
Canned or dried beans are affordable, nutritious and keeps well for years. Beans are ideal when emergencies outbreaks happen, like a zombie apocalypse!
Ok so zombies may be a little far-fetched but then again so was a killer virus that took over the world!
I can’t even remember if beans were flying off the shelves when COVID first hit. Maybe I was distracted by the fact that toilet paper became a rare commodity and there were none available anywhere! If we are doomed and hunger strikes can we survive on toilet paper? Can someone clue me in? Did I miss something? Is there a secret way to turn toilet paper into food or water to sustain us?
If the answer is no then I’ll rather stock up on beans thank you very much!
Beans are incredibly versatile, I use them in my sweet and savouries dishes so I always have plenty of beans at home. I currently have black beans, butter beans, red beans, kidney beans and black-eyed peas…. oh wait, are they peas and not beans? They look like beans to mean, I’ll Google it one day when my curiosity gets the better of me.
What I do know for sure is that beans are full of goodness. They should be somewhere on the top of the ‘superfood’ list.
Beans may be small in size but they’re packed with loads of health benefits. Beans are a good source of plant-based protein and contain fibre, antioxidants, iron, vitamins and minerals. It’s also known to keep cholesterol and blood sugar down.
These endless health benefits are the reason why I try and feed beans to my 15-month-old son Kai regularly. I even have a WHITE BEANS FOR BABIES recipe.
Chorizo, the flavoursome spicy sausage
It was a New York-style basement restaurant located in the heart of Sydney was when I first tried chorizos. The restaurant was a trendy Spanish Tapas bar that had good vibes and plenty of stunning cocktails.
They served the chorizo sausage in thick slices with prawns and red wine on a small plate. So simple but yet so delicious, the chorizo had smokey, spicy and sweet flavours bursting out of it. Needless to say, my tastebuds approved!
Chorizo is made from pork and marinaded in seasonings such as paprika, garlic, hot peppers and vinegar. You can buy Spanish chorizo raw, partially cooked and smoked.
I used smoked Spanish chorizo found near the bacon in the fridge section of the supermarket.
You are probably thinking that using canned beans and supermarket chorizo doesn’t sound very appealing! But you’ll just have to trust me with this one, this dish won’t disappoint you in terms of flavour and taste!
Ingredients for Chorizo and Beans
Butter beans – To keep this recipe hassle-free and convenient I used canned butter beans as dried beans need to be soaked and cooked for a good amount of time. With canned beans, all we need to do is drain the beans, rinse them under the water using a colander and strain. You can swap butter beans with other fleshy white beans such as cannellini.
Chorizo – I used the prepackaged smoked Spanish Chorizos, the ones found near the bacon section in the fridge.
Thickened cream is cream with gelatine added to it, it has 35% milk fat and is often used for whipping.
Chicken powder, chicken stock powder or stock cube can be used.
Passata is lightly cooked tomatoes made into a puree without the seeds and skin. If you don’t have passata you can swap it with crushed tin tomatoes.
How to make Chorizo and Beans
Step by step guide with photos
For the beans:
Melt the butter on medium to high heat in a pot or a deep pan, add in the garlic, onions. Cook and stir for a minute or until the onions soften. Add in the passata, cream and stir to combine, add in the parmesan and chicken powder. Cook until the parmesan has melted then add in the beans. Stir regularly and cook until the sauce thickens. Taste the sauce, if needed add salt and pepper to your liking. Garnish (optional) with chopped parsley and freshly shredded parmesan cheese.
For the chorizo:
Heat up a frying pan on medium to high heat with no oil. Place the chorizo slices down and cook on each side for 2 minutes or until it’s nicely crisp and caramelised. Serve with creamy beans and crusty bread!
Leftovers will be good for a few days kept in a sealed container in the fridge.
Cooking measurements are in Australian standard spoon and cup measurements.
A Third-Party Application calculated the calories and nutritional information. Please use this as an approximate guide only.
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CHORIZO AND BEANS
Ingredients
- 2 chorizo (sliced 1cm thick) (NOTE 1 )
- 20 gm butter (1 tbsp)
- 2 cloves garlic (minced)
- ½ brown onion (finely chopped)
- ½ cup passata (NOTE 2)
- ½ cup thickened cream (NOTE 3)
- ½ cup parmesan (freshly grated)
- 1 tsp chicken powder (NOTE 4)
- 3 400gm tins of butter beans (3 x 14 oz tins) (NOTE 5)
- salt and pepper to taste
Optional Garnish
- parsley (finely chopped)
- parmesan (freshly shredded)
Instructions
- Melt the butter on medium to high heat in a pot or a deep pan, add in the garlic, onions. Cook and stir for a minute or until the onions soften. Add in the passata, cream and stir to combine, add in the parmesan and chicken powder. Cook until the parmesan has melted then add in the beans. Stir regularly and cook until the sauce thickens. Taste the sauce, if needed add salt and pepper to your liking. Garnish (optional) with chopped parsley and freshly shredded parmesan cheese
- Heat up a frying pan on medium to high heat with no oil. Place the chorizo slices down and cook on each side for 2 minutes or until it's nicely crisp and caramelised. Serve with creamy beans and crusty bread.
