As soon as a chill is in the air I turn to my slow cooker. It’s a bit of a seasonal thing for me although it does make occasional summer outings.
Today we were headed out for the day and so I whipped out my trusted friend to make a Spanish style stew.
I love cooking with chorizo and sweet paprika. The amount of flavour from just a tbsp of sweet paprika is incredible and chorizo well I use it in anything and everything. For me though the best part of this stew was the addition of Orzo towards the end of the cooking time. It turned it into a more substantial meal and we all loved it
Anyway without further ado here is the recipe:
You will need:
3 inch chunk of Chorizo diced and browned in a pan
Tin of potatoes drained and halved
Tin of carrots drained
1/2 courgette roughly chopped
1 tin of chopped tomatoes
1/2 yellow or red pepper diced
250ml of beef stock
1.5 tbsp of sweet smoked paprika
1/2 tsp black peppercorns
250g of orzo
Put all ingredients aside from the orzo in your slow cooker.
I cooked on high for 3hrs and on low for an additional 5 ( purely as I was going out and didn’t want it to overcook ) In the last 45 minutes cook your orzo to packet instructions ( usually 8 minutes), drain and add to your stew. You could just add to stew earlier on uncooked and add more liquid but I didn’t plan the orzo – it was a bit of a whim. Take the lid off your SC for the last half hour as it helps to thicken the dish. Enjoy with hunks of buttered bread. Delightful. Warming.
We all LOVED this dish including my 3yr old. Would serve 5-6 people.
Linking up to:
The colours are beautiful and I bet the chorizo flavours everything beautifully. Thanks so much for linking up with #recipeoftheweek. I’ve pinned this post to my food board and a tweet will go out later 🙂
The abtliiy to think like that shows you’re an expert
You’ve impressed us all with that posting!
The ’68 is very different from the ’32 and the ’48 but I like it! I’m looking forward to trying your sample… just as soon as I kick this cold. I’m going on smokeless Day 6! (I had to write the 1948 review from notes I took last week.) Writing about a cigar when I can’t have one — agony I tell you! But hunger is the best sauce (or so they say) and I’ve got my eye on that ’68 robusto. Don’t you worry.
On peut être très laic et accepter de bon coeur que cette démission, la première depuis des siècles, fasse la une des journaux : pour un laic, le pape montre un bel exemple aux politiciens gavés de pouvoir qui s’accrochent à leurs fonctions malgré la maladie.Le pape se respecte et respecte les autres, et c’est très digne !
I love the look of this stew. Chorizo is such a great ingredient and always adds such flavour to any recipe you put it in. I also love orzo, an amazing grain that cooks so quickly.