What do you like to make with chorizo?

[saraha]

Picked up some chorizo on clearance and have never made anything with it. Tasted it once on a dish one of the kids got at a Mexican restaurant. How do you  like to fix it?

Thanks

[Carol in Cal.]

I like it in quiche.  I cut it up into small bite sized chunks and cook it thoroughly.  I want most of the fat out before I put it in the quiche.  Then I mix it in with the cheeses and it bakes up beautifully.  

[horsellian]

It's good in a risotto, if you fry it off first to render all the fat nicely.

[Katy]

Breakfast burritos.

[Laura Corin]

With beans or lentils - cut up fairly small and sauteed with onion, garlic and paprika/smoked paprika. 

[Amira]

Are you talking about Mexican or Spanish chorizo?  Mexican chorizo is fresh and soft, versus Spanish chorizo that’s hard and cured. They’re pretty different from each other.

[saraha]

Mexican. All the ideas sound so good!

[mmasc]

Breakfast tostadas!

Brown and drain it like ground beef.

Take some tostada shells and layer refried beans, chorizo, scrambled eggs, queso fresco, avocado slices. 
 

If you can cube up some small chunks of potato and cook it with the chorizo, even better!

And also, like @katy said, breakfast burritos. Yum!

ETA:  Oops…add scrambled egg to the tostadas!

 

Edited February 19, 2023 by mmasc
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[MrsMommy]

We love it in quesadillas and breakfast burritos (which we usually eat for dinner).

[City Mouse]

My DS likes to mix it with fried potatoes- kind of like a breakfast burrito without the tortilla. Or use it in place of hamburger in almost anything

[Jaybee]

Soup--like with kale and white beans. But our favorite is choripán: cook thoroughly, heat baguette and cut into several-inch lengths, and put the meat into the baguette as a sandwich (like a hot dog) with mayo if preferred. Nothing else needed in the sandwich. So good.

[stephanier.1765]

I keep the vegan version on hand in my freezer all the time. It's perfect for creating southwest salads, which is my most often use for it. I've used it to make nachos and pretty much anything else that I want a spicy "meat" for.

[prairiewindmomma]

I love it in an omelet with roasted poblano pepper, roasted onions, and cheddar Jack cheese. Top with avocado slices and either a bit of sour cream or salsa (pico de gallo).

ETA: we usually do roasted breakfast potatoes as a side to help stretch the meal for our family size

Edited February 18, 2023 by prairiewindmomma

[Ann.without.an.e]

We use instead of taco meat for tacos. It is also great in quiche, frittatas or omelets. I also use leftovers for breakfast. I will fry an egg and top it with a little chorizo and fresh avocado

[saraha]

So, dd19 says she had a burrito barzon at a Mexican restaurant. It was stuffed with chicken, steak and shrimp. Topped with some kind of white sauce possibly cheesy, pineapple and chorizo. She wants to recreate it with some of the chorizo I bought. What do you think the white sauce is made of? I googled burrito barzon recipes but only got listings for restaurants that serve it

[Zinnia2]

12 hours ago, saraha said:

So, dd19 says she had a burrito barzon at a Mexican restaurant. It was stuffed with chicken, steak and shrimp. Topped with some kind of white sauce possibly cheesy, pineapple and chorizo. She wants to recreate it with some of the chorizo I bought. What do you think the white sauce is made of? I googled burrito barzon recipes but only got listings for restaurants that serve it

Where I live the white sauce is just cheese dip, which around here (southeastern US) is made from the deli white American cheese, thinned with whole milk.  Restaurants use Land o Lakes extra melt white American, which you can only get like in a restaurant supply place.  But Boars Head from the deli is pretty close.  The slices wrapped in plastic don't work.

And if she isn't an over the top person, you can just buy white cheese dip in the refrigerator section near the regular cheese.