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Chorizo and Butter Bean Stew

Name: Chorizo and Butter Bean Stew
Prep time: 15 min
Total time: 15 min
Yield: 1 serving
Ingredients: 40 g Chorizo; 200 g Butter beans, tinned and drained; 200 g Passata; 100 g Red pepper; 60 g Onion; 2 cloves, about 6 g Garlic; Half a teaspoon Smoked paprika; 80 g Spinach; A splash Red wine vinegar; A handful, chopped Fresh parsley

Butter beans simmered with red pepper, passata and a weighed forty grams of chorizo, with spinach wilted in at the end. 28 g of protein for 437 kcal.

Calories: 437kcal
Protein: 28g
Fat: 11g
Carbs: 56g

Per serving, makes 1. 15 minutes of work, then twenty minutes at a simmer. Published 8 September 2026.

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Chorizo and Butter Bean Stew, plated and ready to serve. — The finished recipe. Chorizo and Butter Bean Stew

Ingredients 1 to 6 for chorizo and butter bean stew arranged separately on a dark worktop. — Ingredients 1 to 6. 40 g Chorizo (Diced small. Forty grams flavours the whole pot; a whole ring would double the calories of the dish. As sold. This is where the fat in the dish is.). 200 g Butter beans, tinned and drained (Drained weight.). 200 g Passata. 100 g Red pepper. 60 g Onion. 2 cloves, about 6 g Garlic

Ingredients 7 to 10 for chorizo and butter bean stew arranged separately on a dark worktop. — Ingredients 7 to 10. Half a teaspoon Smoked paprika. 80 g Spinach. A splash Red wine vinegar. A handful, chopped Fresh parsley

Chorizo and Butter Bean Stew, preparation step 1: Fry the chorizo in a dry pan over a medium heat for three minutes until the fat runs and the edges crisp. Lift out the pieces and leave the fat. — Step 1. Fry the chorizo in a dry pan over a medium heat for three minutes until the fat runs and the edges crisp. Lift out the pieces and leave the fat.

Chorizo and Butter Bean Stew, preparation step 2: Soften the onion and pepper in the chorizo fat for six minutes, then add the garlic and paprika and stir for a minute. — Step 2. Soften the onion and pepper in the chorizo fat for six minutes, then add the garlic and paprika and stir for a minute.

Chorizo and Butter Bean Stew, preparation step 3: Add the passata, beans and a splash of water, return the chorizo and simmer for twenty minutes until the sauce is thick and the beans have started to break at the edges. — Step 3. Add the passata, beans and a splash of water, return the chorizo and simmer for twenty minutes until the sauce is thick and the beans have started to break at the edges.

The finished chorizo and butter bean stew. — Step 4. Stir in the spinach until it wilts, add the vinegar and parsley, and taste for salt. The chorizo has usually done the seasoning.

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Ingredients

Chorizo40 g
Diced small. Forty grams flavours the whole pot; a whole ring would double the calories of the dish. As sold. This is where the fat in the dish is.
Butter beans, tinned and drained200 g
Drained weight.
Passata200 g
Red pepper100 g
Onion60 g
Garlic2 cloves, about 6 g
Smoked paprikaHalf a teaspoon
Spinach80 g
Red wine vinegarA splash
Fresh parsleyA handful, chopped

Method

Fry the chorizo in a dry pan over a medium heat for three minutes until the fat runs and the edges crisp. Lift out the pieces and leave the fat.
Soften the onion and pepper in the chorizo fat for six minutes, then add the garlic and paprika and stir for a minute.
Add the passata, beans and a splash of water, return the chorizo and simmer for twenty minutes until the sauce is thick and the beans have started to break at the edges.
Stir in the spinach until it wilts, add the vinegar and parsley, and taste for salt. The chorizo has usually done the seasoning.

Worth knowing

No oil goes in. The chorizo gives up enough fat in the first three minutes to cook the onion, and that fat is already counted in the figures.
Butter beans carry the protein here alongside the chorizo, so this is one of the lighter-protein dinners in the set. A poached egg on top adds about 80 kcal and 7 g of protein.

Other dinner recipes that share ingredients with this one, or every dinner between 300 and 450 calories a serving.

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