Kidney beans baked with chorizo, onion and garlic

I’ve got my finger on the pulse with this dish, alright. It’d be best to make it with beans you’ve soaked and cooked yourself, but this speedy version uses tinned beans. If you get good tinned beans the difference is not so great. To make enough for two good-sized portions you will need:

2 x 400g tins red kidney beans in water (drained)
2 medium onions finely chopped
7 cloves of garlic finely chopped
250g dried chorizo sausage sliced
300ml fresh chicken stock
50ml decent* Sherry (I’d use Palo Cortado)
Some olive oil
1.5 teaspoons of dried chilli flakes
A few chopped mint leaves

Fry the onions and garlic in a couple of tablespoons of olive oil at a medium temperature until they begin to colour. Then add the chorizo and fry for a bit longer until the red oil from the sausage colours the onion and garlic. Add the stock, Sherry, chilli flakes and the drained beans to the frying pan. Bring back to a gentle simmer then stir in the mint. It should look a bit sloppy and soupy. Transfer to a shallow oven-proof dish, drizzle some more olive oil on top and bake at 140 Celsius for an hour or until most of the fluid is either evaporated or absorbed by the beans.

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This is a sausagey, beany, garlicky treat of complete pleasure. The kind of thing you can use to generate gas central heating on a cold winter’s night. We are wondering as to whether adding some squid to the recipe might be a fun thing.

*I say decent Sherry but that really applies to all the ingredients I give in these recipes. If you cannot be bothered to use quality ingredients you deserve everything you get, which is to say vermin-grade food. As we know, if it is possible to live it is possible to live well.

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