5-a-Day Butter Bean & Chorizo Bake
5-a-Day Butter Bean & Chorizo BakeI had a fridge full of various vegetables and a tin of butter beans so this 5-a-Day Butter Bean & Chorizo Bake was the result and I have to say that all plates were cleaned with vigour.
This dish is like a rainbow and delicious with some wholemeal buttered crusty bread. Just scoop on and enjoy! To make this dish vegetarian simply omit the chorizo or substitute with vegetarian sausage.
Try this 5-a-Day Butter Bean & Chorizo with your own combination of vegetables or herbs. A great way to clear out the fridge from those odds and sods that get left over.
5 A Day Butterbean & Chorizo Bake
Ingredients
- 1 large red onion sliced
- 75 g chorizo finely diced
- 2 cloves of garlic crushed
- 1 large carrot sliced
- 1 large leek sliced
- 1 celery stalk chopped
- 1 large courgette sliced
- 150 g / 6oz mushrooms sliced
- 1 x 400g tin butterbeans
- 1 x 400g tin chopped tomatoes
- 1 tbsp tomato puree
- 2 tbs olive oil
- 1 heaped tsp rosemary freshly chopped
- Salt & Pepper
- Topping:
- 2 slices stale wholemeal bread
- ¼ tsp smoked paprika
- 1 tbsp grated Parmesan or vegetarian hard cheese
- 1 tbsp olive oil
Instructions
- Pre-heat the oven to 190°C.
- Gently fry the onion, garlic, chorizo, carrot and leek for 4 minutes in the oil.
- Add the celery, mushrooms and courgettes and fry for a further 10 minutes, stirring constantly.
- Add the beans, tomatoes, tomato puree, rosemary, salt and pepper.
- Transfer to an oven proof serving dish.
- Make topping by whizzing up bread with paprika, parmesan and olive oil.
- Spread over top and bake for 15 minutes until topping is crispy.
Recipe Notes
Serve with a warm crusty wholemeal baguette. To make this dish vegetarian, simply omit the chorizo. As an alternative you could use 3 thick slices of bacon (chopped), fry well first then spread over the bottom of the dish ready to be topped with the vegetables and beans.
Martina Evans
Fantastic meal, can’t wait to make it. Thanks!
Camilla
Thanks love this dish, enjoy:-)
Lisa Williams
This looks so delicious I really like butter beans but am always at a loss as to how to use them.
Camilla
I don’t use them nearly often enough but do make a none baked version of this dish to to ring the changes and serve with cous cous or pasta:-)
Maya Russell
A lovely, healthy meal and you can be quite frugal by using up things that need to be used up!
Camilla
Exactly, you just pop in what you have:-)
bev
Chorizo! Yum!
Ursula Hunt
I mad this with other italian spicy sausage as I am not too keen on chirizo and it was lovely
Camilla
Brilliant, it’s a very versatile dish. I have served it over a bead of cous cous without even putting it in the oven and leaving off the crust topping:-)
Anne Dalzell
I want some of this with crusty wholemeal bread now, what a gorgeous dish. I don’t eat enough butterbeans.
Camilla
It is good, you can do it with bacon too:-)
Paul Wilson
A delicious way to get more vegetables.
Camilla
It certainly is:-)