How to Cook Beef Chorizo

Beef chorizo is a Mexican sausage with a terrific flavor. It makes a great addition to many dishes and is not difficult to make.

Things You'll Need

• Beef chorizo

Instructions

1. Take your chorizo links and cut into the casing to make an opening large enough to squeeze out the sausage inside. You can put the meat right into a frying pan.

2. 

   Turn on heat to medium high and break up the sausage so it resembles ground beef. Stir frequently while cooking. Sausage is done when it gets firmer, a little darker, and there is noticeable grease in pan. Try not to overcook. Don't worry about under cooking because chorizo is usually used in other dishes so it will get additional cooking.

3. Use a strainer to pour off excess grease. If you are making the traditional chorizo with eggs, you will want to leave some grease so the eggs won't stick and so it will give the eggs an excellent flavor. You may even want to keep the grease you drained off to add to other recipes for flavor.

4. 

   Serve your chorizo in a variety of ways. Scramble it with eggs and serve with warm corn tortillas, or use in tacos or soups and stews. Add chorizo to ground beef and use in meatloaf or hamburgers.

Tips & Warnings

• If you're very health conscious you can drain all the grease off and even rinse the sausage, but a lot of flavor will be lost.

Resources

• Cooks.com