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Mrs Pingu

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Cooking chorizo recipe help
« on: 27 July, 2018, 11:03:13 pm »
I bought some chorizo, 6 to be exact.
I thought they were the cured version but it appears they need cooking.
Can anyone help me out with ways to use them that don't involve treating them like a sausage?
(Pingu has a sausage phobia but will happily eat cured stuff like salami, saucisson & the cured chorizo.)
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Re: Cooking chorizo recipe help
« Reply #1 on: 28 July, 2018, 05:34:10 am »
Take one pan, a couple of cloves of garlic and a cheap bottle of red.

Cut chorizo into thirds, place in pan with the rest of the ingredients.

Bring to a boil and simmer for an hour or so.

At this point you can either serve as is, or slice them into discs the thickness of £1 coins and then fry.

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Re: Cooking chorizo recipe help
« Reply #2 on: 28 July, 2018, 06:29:12 am »
^^^ wot he says.

A couple of ways I use them:

Pork, bean & chorizo stew. Start off with a bit of onion, celery and garlic, softened. Lob in your pork (fried off or not) and a couple of cans of beans (cannellini, red kidney, borlotti, whatever. Chorizo. smoked Paprika, maybe some thyme. Stock or white wine. Cook.

Courgette and chorizo bake. Whatever goes into the bake with the courgette and chorizo* (which I tend to fry off quickly) , I cook up a little bulgar wheat in stock, add along with tomato, oregano. Add cheddar and parmesan top. Cook.

*eg mozzarella, any other veg you want

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Re: Cooking chorizo recipe help
« Reply #3 on: 28 July, 2018, 06:30:37 am »
I use them in place of things like ham or bacon, so inomlettes, fried with things like broad beans, and spring onions to then go in a warm salad topped with a soft boiled egg.  Or similar to tiermat, in red wine, tomatoes, herbs etc, add a tin of borloti beans for a good stew, or put with pasts.

Crossed with Ham, plus wot he says, I've done a very nice slow cooked belly pork, chorizo and chick pea as well
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Re: Cooking chorizo recipe help
« Reply #4 on: 28 July, 2018, 09:57:51 am »
Ok, questions.
tiermat: if you cut them into thirds before boiling do you not end up with a load of fallen apart sausage meat?

Everyone else: you cook it like above before using it in yourbrecipes, or what?
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Re: Cooking chorizo recipe help
« Reply #5 on: 28 July, 2018, 10:03:03 am »
Ok, questions.
tiermat: if you cut them into thirds before boiling do you not end up with a load of fallen apart sausage meat?

Everyone else: you cook it like above before using it in yourbrecipes, or what?

If you are worried about that fry them for 5 minutes before cutting up. In practice, though, I have never had an issue.
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Re: Cooking chorizo recipe help
« Reply #6 on: 28 July, 2018, 01:11:16 pm »
I've never had a chorizo that was as soft as a sossige, the pork'n'beans thing is quite happy to cook all together, the courgette thing I might think about cooking them first then chopping, or just chopping and stirring in. Pre cooking all the courgett-y stuff means all you have to do is brown the cheese, although it forgives baking for a while, too.

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Re: Cooking chorizo recipe help
« Reply #8 on: 29 July, 2018, 10:07:23 am »
I've has chorizo of sausagey consistency in USAnia and, before you fall about laughing, eastern Nevada and western Utah has a significant population of Basque-descended types - these came from a sausagewright in Cedar City UT.  And jolly yummy they were too.
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Re: Cooking chorizo recipe help
« Reply #9 on: 29 July, 2018, 10:40:07 am »
So I cooked them in wine and then bunged them in my East African spicy lentils. They were a bit too sausage like for me, I won't buy those ones again....
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