Pasta with chorizo al vino sauce is inspired by the popular tapas :chorizo al vino. The tapas consist simply of cooking chorizo sausages into red wine and a touch of smoked paprika, nothing else. I’ve used the idea, add a little extra veggies, like sweet bell pepper that goes perfectly with the chorizo and served it on pasta. I’ve thickens the sauce with a little cornstarch and tomato paste. A great spanish flavored dish!
Chorizo isn’t a spicy “hot” sausage, it’s a paprika sausage which can be softly spicy, sweet or smoked. I’ve used a smoky paprika chorizo for this dish. Those sausage are everywhere here in Spain, but depending where you are, I guess it might be harder to find those 3 types of chorizo sausages. If you want to reproduce the smokey effect with standard sausages, you can add some smoked paprika (pimenton de la Vera) to the sauce, then you’ll recreate this magnetic smokey flavour. Be careful with this smoked paprika, it’s quite powerful, a single tablespoon should do the trick.
In Spain, they make all kinds of chorizo tapas, for example, some are flamed in clay pots with rum or cooked in cider, some other kind simply grilled or topping a piece of bread with a padron pepper. For this particular recipe, I inspired myself with the chorizo cooked in wine version, which is so terribly simple to make and tasty.
So let’s make this chorizo al vino on pasta!
Pasta with chorizo al vino sauce
Makes 2-3 portions
Ingredients
300g of pasta of your choice
250g of chorizo sausage cut into thick pieces
250ml (1 cup) of red wine
1 red bell pepper cut into slices
1 small yellow onion diced finely
1 garlic clove minced
1 big tomato cut into 2
1 tsp of cornstarch mix within 2 tbsp of cold water