2014 Cooking Club Week 38: Spanish Chorizo & Prawn Lentil Stew

Lovely Bloke

This is a "one pot" recipe, which I like to make on a day where I'm not rushing to finish dinner, and can leave it a while at a lower temperature to merge and meld the flavours.

Ingredients (4 Servings)

A Chorizo
500g Prawns
250g Lentils
Onion, chopped
3-4 Garlic cloves, roughly chopped
half a red and half a yellow pepper
Tablespoon of Harissa Paste*
Tin of Tomatoes
1 litre Chicken stock



Slice the whole Chorizo into about 1cm slices, add to a pot and fry off on a low heat, get all that lovely tasty oil out of them, but don't let it sizzle away, about ten mins on a low heat should do it.

Meanwhile, get your onion, garlic and pepper chopped, when the chorizo is ready tip them in and go up from low to medium heat for ten minutes, to soften the onion and pepper.

Now add the Harissa Paste* (if you don't have Harissa, use The Hill Billy's alternative 2 tsp Chilli Powder, 2 tsp Ground Cumin, 2tsp Olive oil), I use a tablespoon, but use more if you like. Stir and cook for another few minutes.



Add the tomatoes, stock and lentils. I used a half and half mix of red and green lentils, because I love the earthy almost meaty flavour of green/puy lentils, but feel free to use all red.

Bring to the boil, then simmer on low for at least an hour.



Some people like it more liquidy than others, and once the lentils are cooked and soft, then it's up to yourself when to remove from the heat.

Before you do, throw in the prawns and cook, covered, for five minutes.



When it's ready, serve it in bowls with plenty of crusty bread.

IvyTheTerrible

I like the sound of this!

Dizzyblonde

It looks lovely, just the thing for a cold evening. I don't eat prawns so I'll make this with chicken instead

Galadriel

That looks really tasty, good one to make on a Sunday evening for during-the-week dinners.

ChewChew

I'm all OVER this!!!! Gonna make it during the week. Thanks pal

Moody_mona

Bought the ingredients for this today, will make it during the week and report back bought the thin chorizo slices in Tesco rather than the sausage because I love the flavour of chorizo but hate the texture of thick chunks. The thin slices of very crispy so hopefully that'll add an interesting crunch too

ibarelycare

This is right up my street! One of my favourite winter dishes is chicken, chorizo and chickpea stew but definitely going to try this as an alternative. Great for bringing into work for lunch as well. Cheers OP, looking forward to giving it a go!

hdowney

This is a so me dish. Gonna see if I can persuade the mammy to try it, if not MOAR FOR MEEE!

The One Doctor

Made this last week without the prawns. Substituted paprika for half the chilli powder in the harissa paste and it was great.

Made this tonight for tomorrow's dinner, looking forward to it!

Quite tasty - though I realise now I'm not a big fan of lentils! But ignoring me, there's a lot of flavour in this. Thanks OP.

beertons

Beautiful. And so simple.

Harry Palmr

I subbed prawns for sausages, very winter warming

Bateman

Definitely going to try this one, you want to make sure you're not re-heating prawns days after it's originally being cooked though!

Jasnah

Such an excellent and delicious recipe, has become an absolute staple for me, thanks!

Jasnah

I'm trying to think of how to make this for a vegetarian, as I'm not living with one and have to adapt meals to suit. I generally used to make it with chorizo and sausage instead of prawns but I don't know if just adding more vegetables will help replace the substance of the meat. Also, would a veg stock cube be an ok replacement for the chicken one?

Lovely Bloke

Does the veggie in your life eat Quorn?

beertons

Didn't think I'd be getting to eat this over Christmas. Kids loved it, just as well there's enough for tomorrow too.

Chuchote

Made this, very nice. Used more prawns, as the amount would only have been four or so of those huge ones from Lidl. I'll make it again, but will perhaps use a fair bit less chorizo, and chopped smaller. Thanks for the recipe.

Bateman

Haha as it goes I made this tonight as well, had forgotten how good it was!

Chuchote

Is there a veggie equivalent of chorizo? I'd like to try a veggie version.

John Mason

Quorn have a do a pepperoni slices which work and there is an irish company who do meatfree chorizio. you can get it in Tesco

But tbh when i dont i usually just had lots of paprika

foodaholic

Made this over the weekend
It was delicious - the whole family devoured it

LastLagoon

Has instantly become one of my freezer batch cook go to's ,swap out the prawns for chicken.so good with proper crusty bread and butter

This looks great. Would it be dodgy to keep for a 2-3 days if you used prawns?

tangy

Surprised nobody's been along to remind us that "no food safety advice is allowed".

Me? Don't serve me 3 day cooked prawns, or I'll make a mess on your lawn.

DavyD_83

Cooked last night for lunch today, I've left out the prawns for the moment. Not sure how well they'd last over a few days or in the freezer.

Donadea Leo

Made this yesterday, delicious and really easy apart from trying to get the damn paper off the chorizo anybody got any tips for that

DavyD_83

Donadea Leo wrote: »

Made this yesterday, delicious and really easy apart from trying to get the damn paper off the chorizo anybody got any tips for that

Best to take the paper stuff off as big a piece as possible, the whole chorizo is actually the easiest. The worst thing you can do is chop fully and then try to get it of individual pieces; is a bit like trying to peel orange segments instead of the whole orange.
Put a cut the length of the chorizo, but not all the way through, peel from there and it comes of like a weird skin

You're meant to peel chorizo?

Dizzyblonde

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You're meant to peel chorizo?

You don't have to, but I do so the slices don't warp and get crisp all over when I fry them