Sunday 27 January - Chicken, Chickpea and Chorizo Stew

I found a chorizo lurking in the bottom of the fridge, that needed using up (just like Nigel Slater, except mine was from Lidl, and wasn't wrapped in brown paper...)

Some chickpeas were quick soaked (boiled for 10 minutes and then left for an hour), then brought back up to the boil and popped into the slow cooker for the afternoon.

I fried some onions, garlic and chilli, along with some pancetta and saffron strands, to form the base of the tomato sauce.

A tetra pack of tomatoes were added to this, along with some chicken stock, tomato puree and the chick peas.

Then some fried chicken was added.

The chorizo was fried until crisp, and then the oil was poured off, it was returned to the pan and a slosh of sherry was added and boiled rapidly, then the sherry and chorizo went into the tomato mix and was simmered for about half an hour.

This was served with some homemade bread  - done in the bread machine as we still have no oven.