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Squid, Chorizo and Chickpea Cocido

by Lindsey Bareham from One Pot Wonders

Serves 6

Total 1hr 5min

Prep 20min

Cook 45min

This warming Spanish stew from Lindsey Bareham’s One Pot Wonders recipe book is the perfect dish to feed a crowd on a cold day. Combining squid, chorizo and chickpeas, it is a flavoursome Mediterranean dish to cook in a single pot.

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Introduction

I’ve taken to keeping a bag of cleaned small squid, the tentacles tucked inside the sac, in my freezer. They are fantastic value and perfect for quick or slow meals. The smooth creamy flesh can take subtle seasoning or the full-on assault of garlic, chorizo, red wine and coriander that it gets in this Spanish-inspired stew. The squid ends up soft and silky with a pleasingly gentle fishy taste that is still noticeable despite all the other flavours vying for attention. I love it with crusty bread for dipping and slurping but it’s good, too, with separately boiled salad potatoes slipped into the pot right at the end.

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Boil the kettle. Top, tail and halve the beans. Boil them for 2 minutes in a spacious, heavy-bottomed pan. Measure off 600ml of the water and drain the beans. Dissolve the stock cube in the hot water. Peel, halve and finely slice the onion. Peel and slice the garlic into wafer-thin rounds. Heat the olive oil in the pan over a medium heat and stir in the onion and garlic. Cook, stirring occasionally, for 10 to 15 minutes until the onions are floppy.

Tip the chickpeas into a colander, rinse and shake them dry. Remove the tentacles from the squid sac and trim away any beak (the hard bit under the eyes). Slice the sac lengthways into 3 chunky strips. Run a sharp knife down the side of the chorizo, peel away the skin and slice it into rounds, about the thickness of a pound coin. Stir the chorizo into the onions, cook for a couple of minutes then add the squid strips and tentacles.

Cook gently, stirring continuously for a few minutes, until the squid begins to curl, then pour in the wine. Increase the heat and let it boil, then add the tomatoes and stock. Return to the boil, immediately reduce the heat and leave to simmer gently for 30 minutes.

Chop the coriander. Stir the chickpeas into the stew, reheat and adjust the seasoning with salt and lemon juice. Stir the beans and coriander into the stew. If you’re using potatoes, put them in before the beans and coriander and leave them for a few minutes to heat through.

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