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Dish Name: Pork, Chorizo, Bacon, Chickpea & Cider Stew
Original Recipe Origin: BBC Good Food Website
Ingredients:
800g skinless, boneless pork shoulder , cut into large bite-sized chunks
120g cooking chorizo (Bath Pig Spicy Chorizo) , sliced into thin rounds
3 rashers of smoked back bacon, chopped into bite-sized chunks
125g bacon lardons
1 large onion , chopped
1 large carrot , finely chopped
4 medium-sized closed cup mushrooms , finely chopped
Small pinch dried chilli flakes
Small pinch paprika
2 garlic cloves , finely chopped
4 bay leaves
sprig of thyme
1 tbsp chilli tomato purée
1/2 pint of dry cider (Wilkins)
400g tin chopped tomatoes
400g tin chickpeas , drained and rinsed
Fresh chopped parsley
Cooking Instructions: Add all ingredients from above into a slow cooker, stir and then leave it to cook. I also stirred at 4 hours in.
Optional Instructions: Use plain flour/Corn flour around 10 mins from the end to thicken sauce, if needed.
Cooking Method: 3.5l slow cooker on low setting
Cooking Time: 8 hours
Serving Suggestion: Serve with bread or potatoes
Serves: 5-6
Review:
I’ve recently got myself a slow cooker to try to make cooking a bit more pleasurable and easy for me, rather than slog it out over a hot stove and hope it cooks properly! I love the concept of slow cooking. You just cut everything up, put it in the slow cooker before work and by the time you finish you have dinner waiting for you. Some may say that is the point in having a housewife/husband, but unfortunately I have neither, so the slow cooker it is! My first ever recipe using this was for the Pork, Chorizo, Bacon, Chickpea & Cider Stew.
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