Roasted Chesnut and Chorizo Soup

It's sweet and it's spicy.  Damn.
This is one of the best soups I've ever had. It's amazing.
It's extremely rich, warming & filling, a meal in itself. It's something like a stew or cassoulet. Before this I didn't really like chestnuts, now I'm a convert...

• 1 big red onion, finely sliced
• 1 carrot, finely diced
• 1 celery stick, finely sliced
• 2 cooking chorizo sausages, cut into 1cm chunks
• 1 tsp ground cumin
• 2 tsp ground fresh thyme
• 2 dried red chillies
• 2 tomatoes / 1 can plum tomatoes
• 500g roasted chestnuts, roughly chopped
• a pinch of saffron
• 1 liter just boiled water

Drop the saffron into the boiled water and leave to infuse.
Fry the onion,carrot, celery, chorizo & a pinch of salt for 20mins, until caramelized.
Then add garlic, cumin, thyme, & chilli. Cook for 1 minute, before adding tomato for 2mins, then the chestnuts. Give it a good stir & then add the saffron water.
Simmer for 10mins & then mash or put in a blender.

Reheat & eat. Wow! It's good.

You can make it well in advance and reheat it later. It freezes well too, so any leftovers can make a quick meal some other time. Not bad eh?

This is from Moro's "The Cookbook". One of my favorite books.

I use more chorizo, & more tomatoes than they do.