What is Chorizo?
Typical chorizo is a type of pork sausage, originating from the Iberian Peninsula. Iberian chorizo originally comes from highly sought after Iberico pork, known for roaming the Spanish countryside and enjoying a natural diet. Their unique diet of acorns, flowers and roots, combined with the Spanish climate, gives the meat its incredible marbling and rich, distinctive flavour.
Although chorizo is most typically made from pork, it can also be made with other meats, such as beef or venison, and is made by adding spices such as paprika, chilli and garlic to the meat and forming into a dense sausage.
Due to the spices added, chorizo is known for its spicy kick, which varies in heat intensity due to the sort of chorizo you select. But generally speaking, if you love spicy food, you’ll love chorizo recipes.
