Hello everybody, it is Louise, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, mexican style chorizo. One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Mexican style chorizo is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. Mexican style chorizo is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.
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To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have mexican style chorizo using 15 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Mexican style chorizo:
- Get 1 lb ground pork
- Get 1 tbsp cumin seed
- Make ready 1 tsp coriander seed
- Take 5 whole cloves
- Prepare 2 bay leaves
- Take 1/4 tsp ground cinnamon
- Take 1/2 tsp dry oregano
- Make ready 1/2 tsp dry thyme
- Make ready 1 tbsp granulated garlic
- Make ready 1 tsp sea salt
- Get 5 whole peppercorns (or 1/2 tsp. ground black pepper)
- Make ready 2 tbsp paprika
- Prepare 1/2 tsp (+ or - to taste) cayenne powder
- Prepare 3 tbsp apple cider vinegar
- Take (if you can find Ancho chile powder use it in place of the paprika and cayenne)
Mexican-style chorizo differs from its European counterpart in that the pork is typically fresh versus the smoked Spanish chorizo. What is Mexican chorizo made of? Mexican chorizo is commonly made with fresh ground pork, pork fat, a mix of herbs and/or spices, chile peppers (for both flavor and color), and vinegar. The finished product is usually stuffed into short links or casings.
Steps to make Mexican style chorizo:
- Make sure to keep your hands and everything clean and the meat cold while preparing your sausage
- If you are grinding your own meat do it ahead of time and have it well chilled before mixing
- Grind all your spices if using whole spices
- Mix all of the spices together until well blended
- With clean hands mix the vinegar into the meat
- Add in the spices a little at a time mixing it well with you hands (if you have sensitive hands you should wear gloves to do this, as the hot pepper can cause your hands to burn and/or stain them)
- Once all of the spices have been mixed into the meat fry up a small piece for a taste and adjust any of the spices
- Let the sausage rest (in a plastic storage baggie or a lidded storage container) in the refrigerator overnight before use, unless you're stuffing it into casings (do that right away then let them rest in the fridge as above).
- Freeze any of the sausage you aren't going to use in the next few days for long term storage.
- Enjoy!
- It's perfect for use in Shinae Choi Robinson's Chorizo chili : https://cookpad.com/us/recipes/1437297-chorizo-chili
Mexican chorizo is commonly made with fresh ground pork, pork fat, a mix of herbs and/or spices, chile peppers (for both flavor and color), and vinegar. The finished product is usually stuffed into short links or casings. This type of chorizo is usually "aged", anywhere from one day to a week. Spanish chorizo is a cured sausage, meaning a hard, sliceable sausage similar to salami that is made from chopped pork and can be spicy or mild. Mexican chorizo is typically made from pork although you will find some versions made with ground beef or even soy.
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