I LOVE ME SOME PAPAS CON CHORIZO!

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*Please note this recipe has been updated to be more accurate with cooking time for the potatoes.

As the weekend approaches my stomach begins to growl with different food cravings, especially for breakfast. Now, don’t get me wrong. I enjoy a beautiful spread of fresh fruit, eggs benedict, pancakes, bagels and lox, you name it. But there is nothing, I mean nothing better than good old-fashioned papas con chorizo on a Saturday morning. Waking up to the aroma of the spicy chorizo softening in a sartén puts a smile on my face every time.

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I have to admit. It reminds me of home and being with my mom. As a child, I knew mom was in a good mood when she shared her love with us through Saturday morning breakfast. If she made homemade tortillas, then dang, she was in a VERY good mood. Of course, the homemade tortillas were in the early years before she got too busy coupled with arthritis in her wrists. It just hurt too much for her to knead the dough. At least that’s what she told us. I think the convenience of buying packaged flour tortillas from the local grocery store was probably more like it. Okay, I’m getting off track. Back to the simple pleasure of eating papas con chorizo. Below is a recipe I learned from first from my mom and quite honestly, tweaked a bit from watching friends and family make it over the years. Enjoy this recipe this weekend or any day of the week.

Papas con Chorizo by LatinoFoodie.com

Ingredients

  • 1 tablespoon vegetable oil (this can be omitted if you’re worried about too much fat, but let’s get real. It’s CHORIZO people!!)
  • 10 ounces Mexican pork chorizo, casings removed
  • 1 small onion, diced
  • 1 small jalapeño, seeded and diced
  • 1 pound red skinned new potatoes, cut into small (1/4-inch) dice, and boiled (this helps speed up the process and makes sure they don’t burn)
  • Kosher salt and fresh ground black pepper

Directions

Add potatoes in a medium stock pot over high heat, covering potatoes with water about an inch. Let the potatoes come to a boil and turn off the heat. Remove, drain, and set aside. You don’t want to over cook them or they’ll get too mushy in your chorizo mixture.

Heat the oil in a heavy large skillet over medium-high heat. Add the chorizo and cook, breaking up the clumps, until softened and melted down, about 5 minutes.

Using a slotted spoon, transfer the chorizo to a paper lined plate to absorb any additional oil.

Pour off all but 1 tablespoon of fat from the pan and heat the pan over medium-high heat. Add the onions, jalapeño and boiled potatoes and saute until onions are soft, about 5 to 8 minutes. Stir in the cooked chorizo and season to taste with salt and pepper.

Transfer to a serving bowl and serve with warm corn tortillas and a side of refried beans. Makes about 4-6 servings.

 

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3 Comments

  1. This recipe is the way I remember papas con chorizo, too. It has been way to long since I made them, so I went searching for a recipe to make sure it came out the way I wanted. Other sites had complicated recipes with too many ingredients. Two commercial brand chorizos that are not greasy are both made of pork-Cacique and El Mexicano. I tried the beef chorizo-it was way way greasy

  2. TMC

    Guys.. Maybe include instructions on how long to “boil” the potatoes. Did I miss this somewhere? I ended up with chorizo “mashed potatoes” because I first boiled them… For how long!?? I don’t know ? until they were tender and “done? .( not hard and raw?.
    Then, when u cook them for another “12” minutes with the onion and jalepenos, it’s safe to assume that you’ll end up with mush– even when delicately folding them when browning.
    Recipe needs additional details .

    • Hello, thanks for taking the time to browse our blog. I looked into the recipe in question, and you are right, it is incomplete. We breezed over procedure. It was written a long time ago and we have since updated the recipe. Last fall we entered into a partnership with Klondike Potatoes and made them our papas con chorizo. Here is the link to the updated Papas con Chorizo post.

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