Chickpeas and Chorizo

Description

Garbanzo beans, or chickpeas, and chorizo is a classic Spanish dish sometimes served as tapas and sometimes as a full stew. This recipe adds potatoes to make a it little more hearty as a full meal. Serve with a citrus and fennel salad and some crusty bread for a full meal. I like to leave the garlic cloves whole as above and spread the cloves on the bread during meal. If you don’t, then reduce garlic but chop and don’t add until after liquid has been added or it may scorch.

Ingredients

  • ½ pound dry garbanzo beans
  • 1 red bell pepper
  • 1 green bell pepper
  • 1 tablespoon canola oil
  • 4 red potatoes, cut into 1/2-inch cubes
  • 9 ounces Spanish-style chorizo, cut into 1/2-inch cubes
  • 1 yellow onion, cut into large chunks
  • 8 cloves garlic, or more to taste
  • 1 teaspoon paprika
  • ½ teaspoon salt, or more to taste
  • ¼ cup dry sherry, or more to taste

Instructions

  1. Put garbanzo beans into a large container; add enough cool water to cover by several inches. Soak beans 8 hours to overnight. Drain and rinse before using.
  2. Set oven rack about 6 inches from the heat source and preheat the oven’s broiler. Line a baking sheet with aluminum foil.
  3. Halve both the red bell pepper and green bell pepper from top to bottom. Remove and discard the stem
  4. seeds
  5. and ribs. Arrange pepper halves with cut sides down onto the prepared baking sheet.
  6. Roast peppers under the preheated broiler until their skins have blackened and blistered
  7. 5 to 8 minutes; transfer to a bowl and tightly seal bowl with plastic wrap to steam the peppers as they cool until the skins are loosened
  8. about 20 minutes. Remove and discard skins. Slice peppers.
  9. Heat canola oil in a pot over medium heat. Cook and stir potatoes in hot oil until browned
  10. about 10 minutes; add chorizo and continue to cook and stir until chorizo is hot
  11. 3 to 5 minutes more. Stir peppers
  12. onion
  13. garlic cloves
  14. paprika
  15. and salt into the potato mixture; cook
  16. stirring infrequently
  17. until the onion softens
  18. about 10 minutes more.
  19. Stir soaked garbanzo beans into the mixture. Pour sherry over everything. Bring the mixture to a simmer
  20. reduce heat to medium-low
  21. place a cover on the pot
  22. and cook at a simmer until the beans are tender
  23. 10 to 15 minutes.

Prep Time: 20 mins

Cook Time: 40 mins

Total Time: 9 hrs 20 mins

Servings: 6

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