The folks at Quorn have recently started to come up with new variants of their product. One that I like the most is the ‘chorizo sausage’ which is nicely flavoured with paprika and tastes pretty much like the real thing, although with a much softer texture. This casserole is easy to make and also freezes well. Eat with some nice fresh bread and either your favourite vegetables or a salad.

Chop the ‘chorizo’ into cubes. Fry off a pack of Quorn ‘chicken’ in some olive oil until it has some colour and then add the ‘chorizo’ to finish cooking. Put the ‘meat’ to one side in a casserole dish and deglaze the pan with some red wine, adding this to the casserole. Then add some fresh oil to the clean pan, lower the heat, and gently fry a chopped red onion, a chopped red pepper and a couple of cloves of chopped fresh garlic. Add this lot to the casserole and finish assembling it: Add a tin of chopped tomatoes, rinse a can of chick peas and a can of borlotti beans in a sieve and add these to the mix. Add a good squirt of sun dried tomato paste, seasoning and some chopped fresh parsley before giving the whole lot a good mix. Add more red wine or passata if it needs thinning a little. Cook for a couple of hours on Gas Mark 3/120 °C (or longer and slower) before serving.