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
19/01/2016 at 5:41 amFantastic meal, can’t wait to make it. Thanks!
Camilla
19/01/2016 at 9:50 pmThanks love this dish, enjoy:-)
Lisa Williams
10/01/2016 at 10:35 amThis looks so delicious I really like butter beans but am always at a loss as to how to use them.
Camilla
10/01/2016 at 5:47 pmI 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
01/10/2015 at 5:46 amA lovely, healthy meal and you can be quite frugal by using up things that need to be used up!
Camilla
01/10/2015 at 12:48 pmExactly, you just pop in what you have:-)
bev
12/03/2015 at 11:04 amChorizo! Yum!
Ursula Hunt
11/01/2015 at 11:10 amI mad this with other italian spicy sausage as I am not too keen on chirizo and it was lovely
Camilla
12/01/2015 at 11:15 amBrilliant, 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
26/11/2014 at 10:31 pmI want some of this with crusty wholemeal bread now, what a gorgeous dish. I don’t eat enough butterbeans.
Camilla
26/11/2014 at 11:59 pmIt is good, you can do it with bacon too:-)
Paul Wilson
02/11/2014 at 12:32 amA delicious way to get more vegetables.
Camilla
02/11/2014 at 3:22 pmIt certainly is:-)