Chorizo Recipes, please?

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Help, foodies! I haven’t eaten chorizo for about a million years and that was in a restaurant, however, I made a recipe yesterday with chorizo in - but now have a good half of the posh U-shaped chorizo left over. What do I do with it?

Any recipes or ways to use/eat would be great. They don’t have to be posh. I just haven’t got the faintest idea what to do with the rest of the chorizo.

NB - fussy DCs won’t eat exactly the same recipe again, so I need something slightly different (they’d be ok if it was similar, just not the same as they’ll moan!
My original recipe was chorizo with cherry tomatoes fried and stirred into pasta with some single cream and spices.)

Any ideas at all (evening meals, lunches) would be very welcome 😊 TIA

Keeping it very simple, we often have it over some avocado and scrambled eggs on toast, cut up into small pieces and fried off, tasty and really quick lunch / dinner

Yes to all of these, were never without Chorizo in our house, it goes into loads of dishes. DS is at uni, and also uses it to pad out and add flavour to lots of things - mainly pasta-relatered.

An easy recipe I do about once a fortnight is to cut potatoes into small cubes and boil until slightly soft. Before they're ready, dry-fry chopped chorizo to release oil, add chopped peppers until slightly soft, then add drained potatoes and a good dollop of tomato puree, add a little water and cook for a couple of minutes so that it's all coated in the sauce.

Chop it up and fry then add red wine.

I do a pork dish in the slow cooker.

Packet of ribs, arrange around the side of the sc, add chopped chorizo, a tin of beans, I tend to use butter beans but you can use others. Add a packet of passata and seasoning, switch on and leave.

As the pork melts it comes off the ribs so you can take them out, I find chopsticks are the best way. Serve with potatoes or crusty bread.

Another person who always has a chorizo in the fridge - adds so much flavour to things. It’s a bit like bacon - makes many dishes taste even better!

I often make chilli with chorizo added in (often use pork mince mixed with beef). Also amazing in omelettes.

Goes really well with white fish like cod, hake or haddock. I bake sliced chorizo with peppers and onions till soft, and then add fish fillets and cherry tomatoes at the end. Finish with olives and parsley.

Chorizo Mac and cheese is a firm favourite in our house. Fry it off then remove from pan, use the fat from chorizo in your béchamel instead of butter. Make your cheese sauce and pasta and just mix all together.

Or my older kids as a snack love chorizo chopped up small and fried then put on top of toasted cheese or inside a cheese toastie.

It lasts forever so you don’t need to rush. I use it as a bit of a seasoning, so chopped small to top salads or pasta or in a tomato bean stew.

The hard u shaped ones are usually ready to eat. Irresistible when chopping it for a recipe--a few yummy pieces always find their way into my mouth. :)

The soft sausage shaped ones (often called cooking chorizo) need to be cooked before eating.

There are some amazing ideas here! I’m gobsmacked! I wish I had time to respond individually but thank you all. 😎 😍

I’m making Chicken Basque tonight as I had some chicken I could defrost and a few people had mentioned that recipe, but I’m seriously going to be buying a lot more chorizo, and trying as many of these recipes as I can! I feel like I’ve been missing out!

I used to slice it in chunks and fry it with chopped red onions and garlic, then add tinned tomatoes, chick peas, oregano and a bit of mild chilli. Serve with rice or pasta and green salad. DC loved it.

We like chicken & chorizo jambalaya - absolutely delicious.

Two options with fish

1. prawn tapas - but I have as main with greens and rice. Very quick so have rice ready. Fry 2 garlic sliced till crisp and lightly brown in olive oil . Drain on paper towel. Fry chorizo in pan till lightly crispy. Add in 2 garlic crushed and cook for 1 min. Put In a good knobbof butter and Add raw prawns and fry till pink. Pour in a good glug of dry sherry (or vermouth or white wine) and rapidly reduce for few mins. Serve with lemon wedges and fried garlic sprinkled on top . Original recipe as tapas served with crusty bread to soak up juices
2. Sea bass with chorizo. Good housekeeping recipe. Cook new potatoes in small chunks. Fry off sliced chorizo in olive oil and set aside . In same pan then fry off potstoes till brown and remove and keep warm in oven . Add more oil onto seasoned sea bass and fry in same pan on high heat- skin side down . Don’t move while cooking to get crispy skin. Remove once cooked and set aside. Add chorizo back to pan add dry white wine, zest of lemon , parsley and reduce rapidly for few mins. Plate up pots, then fish then pour over chorizo/wine mix …and serve with lemon weidges. Great with spinach,