Chorizo and Bean Stew

A delicious bean stew, made with chorizo sausage (about 150g), flageolet beans, chopped fine beans, chopped roasted red pepper, chopped mango (peeled), chopped onion, spring onion, a 400g tin of Italian plum tomatoes.garlic, chillies, sunflower oil, a pinch of coriander seed, and a little cornflour.

Stir-fry the chopped fine beans, the chopped chorizo, and the onion, until the onion begins to brown.

I used dried flageolet beans which were soaked overnight. Add boiling water to the pan, and add the other vegetables, including the soaked beans, and stir together. Add the ham or pork stock. Then add the plum tomatoes, and mash them into chunks with a wooden spoon or a spatula.

Mix up cornflour and water (a heaped teaspoonful), and add to the other ingredients. Stir well in. Turn down the heat and simmer under glass for at least half an hour, stirring every five minutes.

Can be served as it is, or with some kind of flatbread or garlic bread, or with rice or potatoes, according to choice.