Traditional Mexican Chorizo
Traditional Mexican Chorizo

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To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook traditional mexican chorizo using 18 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Traditional Mexican Chorizo:
  1. Take Chorizo
  2. Take 500 g ground pork
  3. Take 3 tablespoon Apple cider or red wine vinegar
  4. Make ready Spice Mix
  5. Prepare 2 tablespoons Ancho chile powder
  6. Prepare 1 tablespoon cumin seed
  7. Get 1 tablespoon granulated garlic (you can also use minced fresh garlic)
  8. Make ready 1 teaspoon coriander seed
  9. Get 1 teaspoon salt
  10. Take 5 whole peppercorns (or 1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper)
  11. Take 5 whole cloves
  12. Prepare 1/2 teaspoon oregano
  13. Prepare 1/2 teaspoon thyme
  14. Get 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
  15. Get 2 bay leaves
  16. Get To substitute Ancho Chile powder
  17. Get Option 1: 2 Tbs paprika + 1/2 Tsp Cayenne Powder
  18. Take Option 2: 2 Tbx paprika + 1 Tsp Red Chilli powder

This type of chorizo is usually "aged", anywhere from one day to a week. Unlike most varieties of Spanish or Iberian chorizo (which is cured and dried in a way somewhat similar to salami or pepperoni), Mexican chorizo is a raw, ground sausage that must be cooked before eating. Chorizo is a heavily spiced sausage commonly used in Mexican dishes. It's crumbled and fried up with whatever other ingredients the dish calls for.

Steps to make Traditional Mexican Chorizo:
  1. In a mortar and pestle grind the cumin seed, coriander seed and cloves. Break up the bay leaves with your hands as much as possible and add them to the spices in mortar and pestle, grind until you have a fine powder. Add all the remaining spices to the mortar and pestle and and grind until everything is combined into a fine powder
  2. If you are using powdered version of cumin, coriander and cloves, you can just mix in the bowl but make sure you chop up bay leaf into smallest possible pieces (can use scissors to do this as well)
  3. Put minced pork in bowl and add vinegar and half of the spice mix. Mix with your hands until the spices are well combined with the meat - the meat will start turning the characteristic dark red. Keep adding the rest of spice mix little by little, mixing with your hands until all the spice is used up. Please note that if you are using very hot chilli in your substitution, this may burn your hands so be ready to put on plastic gloves :)
  4. It's best for chorizo to sit overnight before cooking it - the spices will come out more pronounced.
  5. If you don't want to use the chorizo immediately, you can freeze it in shapes of meatballs, sausages or patties and defrost when you are ready to use it. You can wrap sausages and patties in plastic kitchen wrap before freezing so that they keep the shape and are easy to defrost in the same shape.
  6. Fried chorizo balls!

Chorizo is a heavily spiced sausage commonly used in Mexican dishes. It's crumbled and fried up with whatever other ingredients the dish calls for. It's made with a variety of ingredients, including various ground chiles, coriander, cumin, cloves, cinnamon, garlic, paprika, salt, pepper, vinegar, etc. Traditional Mexican chorizo is sold fresh, meaning raw and uncooked, and it incorporates plenty of ancho chile and cumin into the ingredient list. Spanish chorizo, on the other hand, is dry cured and eaten more like a salumi, alongside cheese or even on its own, with a strong presence of paprika.

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