5-a-Day Butter Bean & Chorizo Bake
I 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
Definitely one of your 5-a-day if not all of them.
Servings 4
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.
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.
William Gould
I’ve never tried butter beans in anything before! Another one to add to the list!
Camilla
Ooh gotta love a butterbean:-)
Maddy
This is a great recipe for adapting too, e.g. no chorizo for veggies etc
Camilla
Exactly:-)
Paul Wilson
I don’t do enough with Butter Beans, I’ll have to give this a try.
Irene Wright
That’s tonight’s dinner sorted then. I’ve a few different vegetables in the fridge and I usually make a sort of ratatoullie but we love those butter beans so this recipe can be a change for us. thank you for the idea.
Camilla
Hope you enjoyed it:-)
Ursula Hunt
great recipe
Felicity Kelly
That looks full of goodness!
Heather Haigh
Found it! Really in the mood for something with beans tonight and not had this for a while. One to keep coming back to. Yum.
Camilla
Same here and have even not baked it but used as a topping to cous cous or pasta!
Carolyn Clapham
That sounds delicious!
Herbert Appleby
Chorizo..,mmmm one of my favourite things from Spain. This is one well discovered dish, although I’d like to try a pinch of Cayenne pepper to zing it up a bit.
Camilla
There was plenty of zing going on here with the type of chorizo I used so I don’t think you’d even notice a pinch of cayenne LOL;-)
Carolyn Clapham
That sounds really tasty, and a great way to contribute to our 5 a day 🙂
Camilla
Thanks – I now make this and put on a bed of cous cous or pasta without baking it and without the breadcrumb topping – it’s a very adaptable dish:-)