Chorizo recipes

Chorizo tapas

By Mark Sargeant

Spicy Spanish sausages, pronounced ‘chor-eetho’, they are made all over Spain, as well as in Portugal. There are lots of regional varieties but all are made with pork and flavoured with pimentón (smoked paprika). There are two main types – an air-dried sausage that can be sliced and eaten like salami and smaller fresh sausages, called cooking chorizo, that must be cooked before eating. Chorizo is available smoked or unsmoked, mild or spicy and is sometimes flavoured with garlic or wine.