Recipes with chorizo
These chorizo recipes make the spicy Spanish sausage the star of the dish. This flavourful ingredient is a smart way to add instant colour, warmth and tang to your cooking.
- Easy meals: Chorizo toad in the hole, jacket potatoes with cheese and chorizo and baked eggs with spicy chorizo tomato sauce
- Chorizo pastas: Chorizo and ricotta penne, creamy chorizo spaghetti and bucatini with chorizo and mushrooms
- Dinner party dishes: chorizo-stuffed sea bream, crispy chicken paella and chorizo-stuffed chicken
- Unusual recipes: Chorizo, apple and walnut salad and cheese, potato and chorizo pie
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Asparagus
Asparagus, chorizo, pea and pickled cockle salad
Slice raw ribbons of asparagus to make this easy and filling salad. Serve with smoky chorizo, pickled cockles and peas for a light dinner.
Chorizo
Chorizo, prawn and butter bean stew
This simple but hearty chorizo and bean stew recipe from Kate Humble is bound to become a new weeknight favourite. Serve with crusty bread.
Recipes using chickpeas
Chickpeas with chorizo and herbs
Dish up an effortless weeknight dinner of chickpeas with chorizo and fresh herbs. This dish can also be made ahead for a barbecue side dish.
Weekly pastas
Creamy bucatini with chorizo and mushrooms
Spanish chorizo imbues cream with its punchy, paprika-coloured oils in this bucatini recipe. Peas, lemon and tarragon add brighter top notes, with mushrooms grounding bringing earthiness.
Savoury pies
Cheese, potato, swede and chorizo pie
This rich chorizo pie contains a triple-threat of cheese (cheddar, mozzarella, taleggio) plus the double-carb hit of pastry and potato.
Holiday recipes
Crispy chicken skin paella
Nothing says summer holiday like a paella! Our chicken paella recipe comes complete with shards of crispy chicken skin on top.
Easy whole fish
Chorizo-stuffed sea bream with houmous and beans
Taking inspiration from various parts of the Mediterranean, this chorizo-stuffed sea bream dish is sunshine on a plate.
Casseroles
Chicken sausage casserole
A deeply satisfying one-pot, this chicken sausage casserole combines light chicken sausages, chorizo and creamy beans in a rich sauce.
Toad in the hole
Chorizo toad in the hole with kale and chickpeas
We’ve added a Spanish twist to toad in the hole with chorizo sausages, saffron and sherry. Make the batter ahead for an easy midweek dinner.
20-minute dinners
Manchego and chorizo toasties
Manchego and chorizo toasties are slathered with a smoky paprika and garlic bechamel then topped with a fried egg to make a Croque Señorita.
20-minute dinners
Chorizo pasta with pangrattato
This easy chorizo pasta recipe uses a mix of chorizo and beans to create a filling dinner. Save the rest of your chorizo for another dish .
Cod
Chorizo-crumbed cod, pepper and olive traybake
Bring the Mediterranean's sun-kissed flavours to your dinner table with this chorizo-crumbed cod, pepper and olive traybake.
Best sausage casseroles
Sausage, chorizo and sherry casserole
This weeknight winner uses Spanish ingredients – chorizo, padrón peppers, and more than a nip of sherry – to make a casserole with class.
Quick pasta
Chorizo and ricotta penne
This chorizo and ricotta penne pasta is the epitome of quick and easy. All you need are six ingredients and 20 minutes to make this one.
Brunch
Breakfast eggs with chorizo, avocado and feta
A one-pan breakfast you can cook over a campfire stove or on the hob. Everyone will love this baked egg recipe made with chorizo, peppers and beans.
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