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Slow-cooked chorizo and white beans

Preparation time
less than 30 mins

Cooking time
over 2 hours

Serves
Serves 2

By Matt Tebbutt
From Saturday Kitchen

Ingredients

For the chorizo and white beans

  • 1 tbsp olive oil
  • 1 onion, diced
  • 3 celery sticks, diced
  • ½ fennel bulb, trimmed and diced
  • 3 garlic cloves, chopped
  • 3 fresh chorizo sausages, chopped
  • 1 handful small white pinto beans or haricot beans, soaked if dried
  • 2 fresh thyme sprigs
  • 1 bay leaf
  • 500ml/18fl oz vegetable stock, plus extra if needed
  • salt and freshly ground black pepper

For the fennel and broccoli

  • olive oil, to cover
  • 2 fennel bulbs, trimmed and thinly sliced
  • 1 bay leaf
  • 50g/1¾oz butter
  • 4 Tenderstem broccoli stems

For the garnish

  • 2 tbsp olive oil
  • 2 fresh chorizo slices (from the skin), broken into small pieces
  • 1 garlic clove, finely chopped
  • 1-2 tbsp sherry vinegar
  • 1 tbsp chopped fresh parsley
  • 1 tbsp chopped fresh tarragon

Method

  1. To make the chorizo and white beans, heat the oil in a casserole and add the onion, celery, fennel and garlic. Fry for 5 minutes before adding the chorizo, beans, thyme, bay leaf and stock. Cover and cook over a low heat for around 2–3 hours until the chorizo is soft, topping up with extra stock if needed. Season with salt and pepper.

  2. To make the fennel, pour the oil into a deep saucepan and place over a very low heat. Add the fennel and bay leaf and cook for around 2 hours until soft. Remove the fennel from the pan, discard the bay leaf and leave the fennel to cool. Purée half of the fennel slices with the butter in a blender until smooth. Push through a sieve and set aside. Set aside the remaining confit fennel slices. Add the broccoli to a dry frying pan and stir-fry until tender.

  3. To make the garnish, heat the oil in a frying pan and fry the chorizo and garlic until crispy. Transfer to kitchen paper to drain.

  4. Spoon some fennel purée onto two warmed plates. Drain the liquid from the bean mixture, discard the bay leaf and add the sherry vinegar, parsley and tarragon. Spoon onto the plates. Top with the broccoli and confit fennel slices and finish with the chorizo garnish.

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