Chickpeas Soup

With cold days and colder nights starting to prevail on a daily basis there's actually nothing as coming home to a warming bowlful of this filling and  comforting soup. It's a meal in a bowl that perfectly straddles the line between light and hearty and that absolutely spares a main course - chickpeas are rich in both types of dietary fiber, which are important for maintaining heart health and for stabilizing blood sugar levels . The spicy chorizo is the wild card heremaking this soup sizzles with ts amazing flavour. 

Ingredients:

• potatoes
• turnip
• carrots
• onion
• water
• salt
• extra virgin olive oil
• 1 spicy chorizo
• pasta
• 2 cans of chickpeas

In a pot with water cook the vegetables cut in cubes and season to taste with salt. After the vegetables are cooked, add a cooked chickpeas' can, let it  boil a bit and grind all with the magic wand, but not completely. In the emanwhile add half a cup of extra virgin olive oil, let it boil and add another can of beans, pasta and sausage. Let simmer.

Ingredientes:

• batatas
• nabo
• cenouras
• cebola
• águia
• sal
• azeite virgem extra
• 1 chouriço picante
• massa meada
• 2 latas de grão de bico

Numa tacho com água cozer os vegetais cortados ao cubos e temperar a gosto com sal. Depois dos vegetais estarem cozidos, adicionar uma lata de grão cozido deixar ferver um pouco e triturar tudo com a varinha mágica, mas não completamente. Entretanto adicionar meia chávena de azeite, deixar levantar fervura e adicionar a outra lata de grão, a massa e o chouriço. Deixar cozinhar.