Chorizo spice mix

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Anyone have a recipe for a spice mix I can put into ground pork to make chorizo?

Soitanly! Nyuk Nyuk

2 Lb. ground pork. 3 1/2 tsp. salt 6 Tbl. pure ground red chile 6-20 small hot dried red chiles;
tepine, Thai dragon, pico de gallo or the like, crushed 4-6 cloves garlic, minced 2 Tbl. dry leaf
oregano 2 tsp. whole cumin seed, crushed 1 tsp. fresh ground black pepper 1 1/2 tsp. sugar 4 Tbl.
good cider or wine vinegar 2 1/2 Tbl. water

Got it off the web, pretty authentic. You can make it into patties, saute it coarse, or stuff into
casing and even smoked.

Paul

notbob said:

Anyone have a recipe for a spice mix I can put into ground pork to make chorizo?

nb

I just looked at the ingredients on some Spanish chorizos I have and the magic ingredient
is paprika.

A search on Google found several recipes but they seem to use no paprika and instead use chile
powder. Not quite the same.

Here is one: southernfood.about.combl30103q.htmOpen ↗

and another: recipes.chef2chef.netA04761.shtmlOpen ↗

and one more: 1worldrecipes.comrecipe.aspOpen ↗

and lastly: recipezaar.com62148Open ↗

Here is one that does contain paprika but also chiles. Real chorizo comes from Spain originally and
is not picy and does not contain chile powder or spicy peppers. globalgarden.comChileOpen ↗
Heads/Archives/vol.200003/0848.html

For some reason most of these seem to be some kind of Mexican variety of chorizo.

But finally found one that sounds closer to the kind of chorizo made in Spain. It took me 7 pages to
find this: 1worldrecipes.comrecipe.aspOpen ↗ (hot pimenton means hot paprika but I
suggest you use sweet paprika).

Let me know which you try and how you like it.

Bert