Chorizo Pasta
Ingredients
- water (as needed, to cook pasta)
- 1/2 t salt (to taste, for the pasta water)
- 125 g pasta (any shorter shape)
- 100 g chorizo sausage (quartered)
- 1/2 c diced onion (1/2" dice)
- 1 c diced tomato (1/2" dice)
- 1 diced red bell pepper (1/2" dice)
- 1 T balsamic vinegar (to taste)
- 1/2 t sugar
- 1/4 t freshly ground black pepper
Method
1. Boil water (use a kettle to shorten overall time in the kitchen!), get the pasta going. Salt the water.
2. As the pasta is cooking, slice your chorizo (amount depends on you).
3. Fry the chorizo in a small frying pan. You shouldn't need to add any oil as the chorizo has plenty of its own. Start off with a medium low heat.
4. As the chorizo is frying, dice the onion, tomato, and bell pepper.
5. Chorizo should have released some oil and be getting some colour and crisp. Turn/stir it.
6. When chorizo is crisp on both sides, remove to plate with slotted spoon/spatula, and slowly cook onion in chorizo grease.
7. Add the bell pepper to chorizo. I usually turn up the heat at this point. Fry for about 1-2 minutes.
8. Add the tomatoes. Stir. Add balsamic vinegar, sugar, and black pepper to the mix. (You generally dont need salt as the pasta + chorizo already have enough).
9. Stir for about 1-2 minutes until the tomatoes just begin to break down. Turn off the heat.
10. Turn off pasta (it should be done) and drain. Add chorizo mixture to pasta. Mix well. Eat.
Notes
SJ Note 23 Sept 2012: Perhaps I'm unfairly rejecting this: our chorizo had gone off, so we used chicken instead, and perhaps that makes all the difference. I'm not convinced enough to try it again, though: I think our palates are now used to far more complex dishes. So, this fell short for us, but there's nothing wrong with the recipe itself - if you're more into simple things, have a gawk at the source link and then give it a go. She had no measurements for anything, it's very much a "use however much suits you" kind of recipe. We function better with measurements, so I put some in here, but feel free to use however much you want to of whatever you have/like/want.