Chorizo Cream Sauce (for Pasta, Chicken, Fish & More)
Easy creamy chorizo pasta recipe! While your favorite noodles or short cut pasta is cooking as per the package instructions make our Mexican chorizo cream sauce.
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Servings: 4 servings
Calories: 594kcal
Ingredients
- 9 oz Mexican chorizo sausage* removed from the casing
- 1 ½ cup heavy cream
Instructions
- 1. Place a non-stick pan over medium heat. Add the chorizo sausage and with the help of a wooden/silicone spoon or spatula break it up. Sauté until just browned, about 3-5 minutes.**
- 2. Add the heavy cream and stir to combine with the browned chorizo. Lower the heat a bit, to medium-low and simmer until the sauce thickens, about 5-6 minutes. Taste to decide if any extra seasoning is needed and add accordingly.***
- 3. Combine the creamy chorizo sauce with your choice of pasta (cooked according to the packaging instructions) or enjoy it with chicken, seafood like scallops or shrimp etc. Garnish with cilantro and a squeeze of lime.
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Notes
*We recommend that you use pork chorizo, but beef, chicken and tofu versions work well too. If using tofu chorizo you will not need to brown it - simply break it up in the pan and immediately add the heavy cream.
**Some chorizo preparations have extra fat added to the ground meat. If too much fat is rendered and pools to the sides of the pan, feel free to scoop out some of it with a small spoon.
***Typically chorizo is so robustly seasoned that the dilution with heavy cream simply serves to tame the flavors somewhat. It is very likely that you decide no extra seasonings are needed once the sauce has thickened. It is however reasonable to expect to add some salt, cayenne or black pepper - the matter will be decided by your taste buds.
Nutrition
Serving: 1g | Calories: 594kcal | Carbohydrates: 4g | Protein: 18g | Fat: 57g | Saturated Fat: 30g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 23g | Trans Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 157mg | Sodium: 812mg | Sugar: 3g
