I love making a big pan of soup that uses up lots of ingredients from my store cupboard or leftovers. This chorizo, chicken and chickpea soup ticks both boxes.
The inspiration came to me via Dom’s Random Recipe challenge. This month, we were tasked with selecting a cook book from the shelf to correspond with our birthday date. My birthday is 15th of March, so I picked out the 15th book, which was Ros Dobson’s Whole Food Kitchen. Appropriately for ‘Random’ Recipes, I remember finding this book in a clothes shop sitting beside a large pile of winter clothes as part of their display. I didn’t buy any clothes, but they did sell me the cook book. You can see that my priorities do not lie in fashion!
Anyway, I flicked open the book to page 41 where I found two recipes – Creamy cannellini, leek and sorrel soup or Smoky chorizo and haricot bean soup. Although they both sounded delicious, I had more chance of finding the ingredients for the chorizo soup in the kitchen, so went with that one.
As with all good cooking adventures, I departed from the list of ingredients. The basic recipe calls for chorizo sausage, red onion, garlic, Spanish smoked paprika, chopped tomatoes, chicken or vegetable stock, haricot beans and flat leaf parsley.
I didn’t have haricot beans or Spanish smoked sweet paprika, but I did have a packet of diced smoky chorizo and a tin of chickpeas. I also found a bag of spinach to use up, a couple of carrots and some leftover roast chicken. For extra texture, I sprinkled in some giant wholegrain cous cous, too. A one-pot meal, bursting with flavour.
Along with some garlic bread, it will make the perfect fodder for keeping warm whilst watching the fireworks in our back garden tonight.
Here’s how I made it:
Chickpea, Chicken and Chorizo Soup
Adapted from Ros Dobson’s Whole Food Kitchen
Original recipe – Smoky Chorizo and Haricot Bean Soup
Ingredients:
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1 tablespoon olive oil
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150g/one cup smoky chorizo sausage, cubed
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1 red onion, chopped
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2 carrots, peeled and grated
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2 cloves garlic
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400g/one tin chopped tomatoes or passata
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750ml/3 cups chicken or vegetable stock
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1 tin chickpeas, drained and rinsed (or use harricot beans or even lentils)
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A handful/one cup leftover roast chicken, shredded
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150g/one cup giant wholegrain cous cous
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160g bag organic spinach
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A handful of fresh curly parsley
Method:
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Heat the oil in a large pot, add the chorizo sausage and fry for a few minutes. Once crispy, take out a little bit of chorizo to garnish.
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Add the red onion, carrot and garlic to the pan and fry for another few minutes until the onion softens.
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Add the tomatoes, stock, chickpeas, leftover roast chicken and giant cous cous. Cook for around fifteen minutes on a gentle heat, stirring occasionally.
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Add the bag of spinach and stir through until wilted. Take off the heat and sprinkle over the parsley and some of the crispy chorizo.
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Serve while piping hot, enjoy!
As well as linking this up to Random Recipes, I am also sending this across to Karen’s Herbs on a Saturday challenge, too as I love adding curly parsley to soups!
Don’t forget, Simple and in Season is back home this month, you can link up here.
Any ‘random’ clothes shop cookery book purchases on your shelves?!
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Michael Toa says
oh wow! this soup looks utterly delicious. stunning photos too… I am drooling….
Stacy says
What a wonderful, filling tasty bowl of soup! Your photos are beautiful! I must admit, I tend to frequent more places that I can buy a cookbook than places I can buy clothes. That display book looks like a great find!
Makey-Cakey says
That’s a proper meal in a bowl soup – delicious!
Rachel K says
Hi Ren
I’ve just seen the link on Dom’s RR roundup (I am a first time entrant!)
I have to say that the photo was just so inviting, could almost smell your soup over here in north London. I have to say that chorizo is one of my favourite ingredients to cook with, so you were always onto a winner. But I love the addition of the “fat” couscous – must try that trick!
Lucy says
A clothes shop that sells cookbooks sounds like my kind of place – and this is an absolutely incredible soup. It’s suddenly very cold here today and this is just what I feel like. Thanks!
Elizabeth Crabtree says
What a beautiful, hearty soup! I’m so impressed by the color of it.
You say that you look using ingredients from your cupboard when cooking. You should check out my newest roundup called Pantry Party, because that’s essentially the idea behind the roundup! http://lawstudentscookbook.wordpress.com/2012/11/27/introducing-pantry-party/
Genevra says
lovely, filling and tasty soup which has lasted me four days of pack lunches! thank you
Ren says
Yay! Great news Genevra! Thank you for letting me know!
Dom says
simply stunning as usual Ren, what a deeply hearty and flavoursome soup and that book looks fantastic, I must hunt it down… you must have been pleased with your pick this month to end up with something so gorgeous. Fab pictures as always… thanks so much for taking part xx
Ren says
Hi Dom, I was pleased, it is a lovely book and I don’t know why I don’t cook from it more often. Lots of comforting one-pot meals and soups. A lovely way to bring it back to my attention 🙂
Aimee @ Simple Bites says
Looks like the perfect comforting dish that our family likes to enjoy in the winter. I’ll be giving it a try!
Ren says
Thanks Aimee, hope you all enjoy it, thank you for the comment 🙂
Laura@howtocookgoodfood says
I just love this soup and have made something similar with some fresh chorizo sausages today. This features regularly in our house as soon as the cold weather kicks in!
Ren says
Thanks Laura, I’m sure your soups are always warming and tasty 🙂 Think of a recipes with pomegranates now for One Ingredient!
Andrea Mynard says
This looks great. I really love this kind of meal, where everything is in one pot and you can make enough for lunch the next day. Like the idea of adding couscous too. Making chorizo next week from the copious amounts of pork in our freezer (we had Berkshire pigs to clear the pesky weeds from our back garden in the summer) and will return to this recipe. Andrea
Ren says
Hi Andrea, yes exactly, plenty left for lunch today, I can hardly wait till lunchtime! Wow, your home chorizo-making sounds wonderful, good luck with that!
clairetweet says
This looks like a realy winner, Ren. Fabulous photos too. We are addicted to chorizo at the moment, it goes in everything here.
Ren says
Thanks Claire, high praise from a photographer I admire greatly! :-))))