Jono & Jules do food & wine

A lovely weeknight treat for two and the only thing we had to buy was a pepper as the rest of the ingredients were in our cupboard or fridge-freezer. Quick and easy, and it tastes like a dish you’d have on holiday.

Wine Suggestion: A Spanish white like Albariño or a young Tempranillo. Tonight it was the latter and Finca Antigua from La Mancha in Spain with classic warm spices and hints of vanilla that embrace the peppers and prawns.

Spanish rice with prawns & chorizo – serves 2

• 1 onion, sliced
• 1 red pepper, cut into chunks
• olive oil
• 100g chorizo, chopped into smallish chunks
• 150g paella rice
• a pinch of saffron
• 400ml hot chicken stock
• 125g cooked prawns
• 1 lemon, halved
• a small bunch of parsley, chopped

Heat 2 tbsp of olive oil in a wide, shallow pan and cook the onion and pepper until softened. Add the chorizo and cook for another few minutes or until the oil is released.

Stir in the rice and stir to coat in the oils. Stir the saffron into the stock then stir into the pan.

Cover the pan with a lid and cook for 15 minutes or until the rice is tender and the stock absorbed. Stir in the prawns until heated through, then squeeze some lemon juice over and stir in the parsley.

(Original recipe by Janine Ratcliffe in Olive Magazine, May 2010.)