That heading (minus the chorizo bit) could go on my gravestone.
When I go food shopping after a hard day slaving over spreadsheets and Powerpoint I have a habit of buying random things in the hope that I will think up something to do with them later on.
Combine this potentially irritating (not to say expensive) trait with a tendancy to enjoy ‘cooking with wine’ and the culinary creations that result can be interesting to say the least. However in this instance (with a random packet of chorizo to hand) everything went according to (the nonexistent) plan:
I found some prawns in the back of the freezer, grabbed a glass of Chardonnay and got busy:
Ingredients
- Cooking chorizo
- Uncooked prawns
- Garlic
- Onion
- Tinned chopped tomatoes
- One big fresh tomato
- Various splashing items (I go for soy sauce and worcestershire sauce but don’t get splash happy)
- Rice to serve
Dead easy. First chop up the chorizo and fry gently to release all the fragrant fatty oils. Remove the chorizo from the pan and set aside.
Should be plenty of oil in the pan now; add the onion and garlic and cook until soft. Now add the tomatoes and put the chorizo back in the pan. Add the prawns and cook for a few mins:
Serve with rice. Quick and easy for when you just can’t stick the idea of pizza again:
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That’s a great use of chorizo 🙂 It looks delicious!
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I have to thoroughly respect anybody who keeps a “random” pack of chorizo in the kitchen!! Bravo on an awesome site 🙂
This looks and sounds delicious. I will definitely be trying this! Thank you!
yum, yum, yum!! chorizo is my favorite!!!!! looks so good 🙂
Chorizo – its good but bad in equal measure
Well.. very impressive cooking without a plan! I have food that languishes.. next time I’ll have to ask you what to do with it!!
Languishing food is a sad thing
Perfect & I think you just solved my dilemma about what to make for the weekend guests… well except for the vegetarian, and the one who can’t have seafood, gluten, butter, or oil. But they’ve already told me they’re bringing their own food & that I have to sanitize my cutting board & re-wash any pans I may have used oil or butter on (in-laws, go figure). So I’ve been looking for something awesome & highly aromatic for my family to eat and they can eat their hearts out! Ok, I’m not being very nice but…this looks too good.
Good grief that sounds pretty painful. I’d be tempted to cheat but then I have no morals
Oh! I have tried cooking this dish last night and it tasted amazing especially for the fact that once the chorizo is added it gives and extra kick to the all thing! Loving It
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It is wonderful to see that you used every ounce of that rendered chorizo oil! That stuff is like porcine gold! And I bet it made the shrimp taste amazing.
I too am guilty of aspirational supermarket shopping. Which reminds me that I have a whole quart of half and half in the fridge I was thinking of making mac and cheese with . . .
Thats funny so do I – along with about 4 lbs of cheddar cheese which I have no idea what to do with before it grows legs and makes a run for it
I wish I was inventive and creative with food and make it taste good. I’m already if I come up with a salad and then found out it already existed..
Well these things come to you with age. The more you stay in the more time you have on your hands!
LOVE it! Yummy looking dish and I am so with you on your shopping and cooking methods! 😀 The meat and veg I find in the clearance section determin what else goes in my basket and my saucepan!
Random is good but not if you forget the stuff you were sent to the shop in the first place for!
As they say in the A Team “I love it when a plan comes together” Particularly when it is one of those totally disorganised shopping plans. I approve of the rice stack btw.
Yes its all a bit hit and miss in this kitchen. And i like stacks but I need to think of something else to stack
Fantastic – chorizo is one of my favourite ingredients.
It is good but now I’m wondering whether the chorizo i used is anywhere near the ‘real thing’
You Brits probably use Spanish chorizo – which is wonderful. Where I live, we often wind up with the Mexican variety, a weak substitute for the real thing.
I’d like to think it was at made in Spain although everything we get in UK supermarkets is pretty insipid.
Can’t go wrong with Chorizos and Shrimp. It looks delicious!
Thanks it was although I can’t actually remember too much It might have been a post pub creation
hahaha!
yum! looks tasty! I love chorizo but I started using Soyrizo last year and LOVE it. OF course, it doesn’t have all the greasy goodness that probably makes this dish spectacular, but it’s much healthier.
My wife would love that – being a vegetarian its not easy to reproduce this kind of thing (well she’s a pescatrian really)