Chorizo & Green Bean Ragù – a delicious sauce served on a bed of spaghetti! A quick and tasty midweek meal the family will love!
You may or may not be following my social media but if you do you will have seen my various fruit and vegetable bargains which I have been enjoying by just changing the time I go shopping.
The result has been that we are eating a diet packed full of vegetables as lunchtimes tend to be veggie soups and dinner times are geared around what vegetables I have to hand.
So my Chorizo & Green Bean Ragù was born as I had a packet of stringless green beans, green pepper, and some chorizo that needed to be used up!
I hope I haven’t upset any Italians by calling this a ragù as Chorizo is Spanish so this dish is a fusion of cuisines!
I served the ragù on a bed of spaghetti and it went down extremely well with the whole family. Quick, tasty, delicious, and nutritious, what more could you want from a dish?
More Green Bean Recipes
For more green bean recipe inspiration you should check out these dishes:
- Tagliatelle With Avocado And Spinach ‘Pesto’, French Beans & Slow-Roast Tomatoes – The Veg Space
- Saya Ingen Shira-ae | Green Beans with a Tofu, Miso & Sesame Dressing – Kavey Eats
- French Bean, Tomato & Cumin Salad – Lancashire Food
- Miso Potato Salad – Fuss Free Flavours
- Green Bean Salad – Christina’s Cucina
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Chorizo & Green Bean Ragu
Ingredients
- 175 g Green beans I used stringless, slice diagonally
- 1 Green pepper chopped
- 150 g Cooking chorizo cut into small cubes
- 1 tsp Rapeseed oil
- 1 tbsp Tomato paste
- 150 ml water
- 390 g Carton tomatoes with onion & garlic
- Freshly ground pepper
- 350 g Spaghetti or pasta shapes
Garnish
- Chopped parsley optional
Instructions
- Heat the oil in a wok style pan and fry the chorizo until golden.
- Add the beans, green pepper and fry for a couple of minutes, stirring.
- Add the tomatoes with onion & garlic, tomato paste, water and ground pepper.
- Bring to the boil then lower to a simmer for 20 minutes until the beans are tender.
- Meanwhile cook the spaghetti or pasta according to instructions.
- Serve the ragù on a bed of pasta and garnish with chopped parsley if using.
Tim
Nice dish. If I did it again I would probably not have it with spaghetti and instead just make tapas. I used fresh garlic and onion and added it after the chorizo was cooked.
Camilla
Thank you Tim, sounds like a fab idea!
Amy Fidler
Yummy,love the look and sound of this x
Camilla
Thanks Amy:-)
Lisa Williams
Such a great twist on a classic, I sometimes get bored of the everyday things like chilli or casserole so its great to throw a few new things in there to perk it up 🙂
Camilla
Thanks Lisa;-)
Emily Leary
What a great result! Looks and sounds delicious.
Camilla
Thanks, it’s a favourite here now;-)
Old Fat Guy
I love chorizo and I love beans. This looks great.
The Old Fat Guy
Camilla
Thanks, it works so well:-)
Angie Hoggett
This looks delicious, I love Chorizo!
Camilla
Thank you Angie:-)
Paul Wilson
Might go well with courgetti at this time of year.
Camilla
I think I’m the last person to try courgetti!
Elizabeth
Spaghetti is such a comfort food meal for me, and your recipe sounds lovely! MMm!
Camilla
Thanks Elizabeth:-)
Jacqueline Meldrum
Oh that looks super tasty Camilla, I could try it with sliced veggie sausages. Bet it would be good and go down a treat.
Camilla
Thanks Jacqueline, yes veggie sausages and some chilli would work great:-)
Becca @ Amuse Your Bouche
Ooh I love meals like this, can’t beat a good pasta dish. I’ve never used green beans on my spaghetti though, will definitely be trying that as I usually just boil or steam then – nowhere near as exciting 🙂
Camilla
Thanks Becca, I’m sure you could do something similar with some Quorn and spices:-)
Heather Haigh
A recipe that sounds lovely and rich for the tastebuds but frugal for the pocket.
Camilla
Thanks Heather;-)
Jacqueline Roberts
That looks so delicious
Camilla
Thank you Jacqueline:-)
Pooja khanna
Definitely a wonderful and delicious health food I must give a try 🙂
Camilla
Thank you Pooja:-)
DANIELLE VEDMORE
I love your bargain posts! I used to go when I has guinea pigs and a pet rabbit I used to stock up on their favourites especially green beans! I love chorizo – I only ever cook it with paella though so this would make a nice change. Im going to have to go and get some whoopsies to experiment with 🙂
Camilla
Whoopsies Danielle?
Ursula Hunt
This sounds great , the chirozo will add a lovely spicy taste
Camilla
Thanks Ursula, yes it’s a great way to get added flavour into a dish:-)
Joanne T Ferguson
I love ragu! Yours looks delicious and love your photo! Pinned and shared!
Camilla
Thank you so much Joanne:-)
Jemma @ Celery and Cupcakes
I had beef ragu last night with courgetti. I really like the idea of adding chorizo to change it up and give it a Spanish twist.
Camilla
Thanks Jemma, yes Chorizo is so great for adding flavour:-)
Anne
I often make that Spanish / Italian fusion, I think the flavours just always merge so well!
Yoru ragu looks delicious, I love spaghetti so its good to discover a new variation!
Camilla
Thanks Anne:-)
Jacqueline Roberts
great photo
Vicki
What a colourful plateful! This looks delicious Camilla, as always. I’ll be pointing my boyfriend this way- he loves any type of ragu but he’s never made one with chorizo before.
Camilla
Thanks Vicki, lucky you having a boyfriend who’ll cook for you!
Prateek
Love chorizo, interesting combination with green beans. What is the wine used in the pairing?
Camilla
Oh Prateek, you’ve outed me, how embarrassing! I’m allergic to wine so this was blackcurrant squash LOL:-) I just play at being grown up!
Maya Russell
Looks really tasty. We have some green beans ready so a timely, in-season recipe too.
Camilla
Fab Maya:-)
Diana
You gave me an idea of what to cook for dinner tomorrow! As I need something that is quick but delicious. and thank you for linking to my Fava beans recipe x
Camilla
Great Diana:-)
Platter Talk
This beautiful ragu looks completely delicious; thanks for doing this one!
Camilla
Thank you, very kind:-)
peter @feedyoursoultoo
Truly love the addition of the chorizo. Gives it just the right spice.
Camilla
Thanks Peter, it really does make a quick and tasty meal:-)
Kavey
Necessity and the random contents of ones larder are surely the mother of invention! Looks lovely!
Camilla
A lovely way with word you have Kavey:-)