Spanish Bean Soup with Chorizo

the evening before

1. soak the beans in sufficiently cold water.

On the next day

1. Pour the beans into a sieve, rinse with cold water and then add enough water to cover them and let them simmer gently until they are cooked. Takes a good hour (if you want to save yourself this preparation, you can also use pre-cooked canned goods, then prepare and prepare them accordingly).
2. While the beans are simmering (about 1 hour until they are done) we prepare the rest. But we can take our time, because the vegetables are “bite-proof” in about 20 minutes
3. Peel the carrot, parsley root and celery and cut into bite-sized pieces. Peel the onion and garlic. Halve the onion and quarter or eighth depending on the size. Cut the chorizo ​​into small pieces. Rinse the thyme with cold water and shake it dry (if you don’t have any fresh thyme, take approx. 1 tsp dried product). Core the chilli and if you don’t like it so spicy, you can also cut out the partitions. Cut the chives into fine rolls.
4. Heat a little olive oil and fry the chorizo ​​with the onions vigorously, then add the vegetables and roast everything well and then deglaze with the vegetable stock. Season with a little salt & pepper, add the bunch of thyme and simmer on a low heat until the vegetables just have a “bite”. Now we fish out the bunch of thyme (if you have used dried goods, you don’t need to do that, with fresh goods only the stalks are left anyway).
5. When the beans are done, we pour them over a sieve, rinse them briefly and then add them to the soup pot, add the finely chopped chilli pepper and heat it up again
6. While the soup is running through again, bake a few slices of white bread in the oven
7. In the original recipe, part of the soup is pureed. To do this, take out about 1/4 of the soup and puree this part, then put it back in the soup pot and season again to taste. I didn’t mash it this time.
8. Put the finished soup in a soup cup and add the bread and now ….. enjoy your meal …..
9. If you don’t go out, you can brush a few slices of white bread with olive oil as a delicious addition and then sprinkle it with chopped garlic and then roast it in the oven nice and cross ….;)))