Chorizo and Leek Pasta Recipe

Spanish chorizo is sausage and shredded leek pasta served with garlic bread.

Chorizo and Leek Pasta Recipe

A simple pasta recipe is always a great midweek dinner idea, and this chorizo and leek pasta ticks all of the boxes as well as being utterly delicious!

Course Main Course

Cuisine Modern European

Keyword chorizo and leek pasta, chorizo pasta, leek pasta

Prep Time 10

Cook Time 20

Total Time 30

Servings Servings

Calories 597kcal

Author Brian Jones

Ingredients

100 g Chorizo Sausage 3½oz
1 tablespoon Olive Oil
200 g Leek 1 Medium
2 Garlic Cloves
50 ml Water 3 tablespoon
175 g Dried Pasta 6oz
1-2 tablespoon Sherry Vinegar
1 Handful Parsley

Instructions

Dice Cut the chorizo into a 5-6mm (¼") dice.
Heat the olive oil in a 30cm or 12" pan over a low-medium heat, add the diced chorizo and cook for 5 minutes, stirring occasionally.
Whilst the chorizo is sweating down, top and tail the leek, then make a vertical cut about a third to half of the way through the leek.
Carefully roll back the outer layers of the leek, keeping them flat. Then fold the leeks in half and finely (2-3mm or ⅛") shred them; this will give you some lovely long shreds of leek perfect for the long pasta.
Take the heart of the leek and cut it into rounds approximately 5-6mm (¼") thick.

You may need to wash the leeks before you start cooking them.

Peel and dice the garlic as finely as you can, and after the chorizo has been cooking for 5 minutes, add it to the pan and cook for 1 minute.
Add the leeks to the pan, pour in the water, add a lid and cook for as long as it takes for the pasta to cook (10-13 minutes).
Cook the pasta until al dente in boiling, salted water in a 20cm or 8" saucepan. I use 1½ teaspoons of salt in a pan this size.
Finely chop the parsley.
Remove the lid from the leeks and turn the heat up to medium-high, then drain the pasta and add it to the pan and give everything a toss to coat.
Add the sherry vinegar, 3-4 tablespoons of the pasta cooking water, and most of the parsley, and cook everything for a final minute or so.

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