We’ve had very modest meats over the Christmas period so we allowed ourselves a bit of a budget breaking treat for New Years Day. The Pasta is actually Rice Noodles, from the Chinese Supermarket, but we won’t tell if you don’t!

Ingredients:-

1 Red Pepper – Char grilled under the grill,  skinned and chopped
A handful of fresh Parsley, roughly chopped
1 Red Chilli, chopped
2 Cloves of Garlic, mincedIngredients:-
Mixed Seafood (Prawns, Mussels and White Clams in ours)
Chorizo, thinly cubed
Chickpeas, soaked oven night and then boiled
The juice and zest of a Lemon
1 Lemon quartered, to garnish
Mushrooms, finely sliced
Olive Oil
1 medium Onion, finely sliced
2 Spring Onions, chopped
Rice Noodles

Method:-

(1) Fry the Onion and Garlic to soften.Method:-
(2) Boil your Seafood two pans of water. One for the Seafood and one for the Noodles.
(3) Add the Chilli, Chorizo and Chickpeas and fry for a minute or two.
(4) Add the Seafood to a pan of boiling water and allow the water to return to the boil for a minute.
(5) In the frying pan add the Red Pepper, half of the Spring Onion and Mushroom.
(6) Add the Noodles to the remaining pan of boiling water and allow to soften. Remove and drain.
(7) Drain your Seafood and stir into the frying pan (Or Wog) if you have one.
(8) Plate the Noodles in a sort of nest style.
(9) Add the Seafood etc. and a good amount od cooking juices.
(10) Squeeze the Lemon over the top and dress with the Lemon zest, Parsley and remaining Spring Onions.
(11) Garnish with a Lemon quarter.

Seafood and Chorizo work really well together and considering that this was quite a sizeable portion we both polished it off last night!