White beans with chilli and chorizo

Name: White beans with chilli and chorizo
Cuisine: Mediterranean
Ingredients: 250 g white cannellini or butter beans, soaked overnight; 250 g white cannellini or butter beans, soaked overnight; About 150 g soft chorizo, 2–3 sausage-sized links; About 150 g soft chorizo, 2–3 sausage-sized links; 1–2 bay leaves; 1 dried or fresh red chilli; 1 dried or fresh red chilli; 1 large potato, peeled and diced; 2–3 tbsp olive oil; Salt

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

A Cook’s Year in a Welsh Farmhouse

By Elisabeth Luard

Published 2011

About

White beans cooked the Mediterranean way, with soft chorizo for substance and olive oil as enrichment... this is no-fuss everyday cooking, healthy, simple and cheap. Cheaper still if you grow your own beans, harvest your own chillies and prepare your own chorizo with meat from the household pig.

Ingredients

250 g white cannellini or butter beans, soaked overnight
About 150 g soft chorizo, <

Main course
Gluten-free

Method

Drain the beans and put them in a large saucepan with enough water to cover generously – at least 1 litre. Bring to the boil and skim off the grey foam that rises.

Add the chorizo, bay leaf and chilli (leave it whole and unbroken) and return the pot to the boil. Cover loosely and bubble gen