Nopales with Chorizo Recipe
This Nopales with chorizo recipe will surprise you that the combination of flavors go so well together. You will love this dish over a soft warm corn tortilla o even a flour tortilla. 
Not long ago I was reading a post from my fellow blogger Chez What? From his comments about the taste of foods, I started to think about something that many food bloggers face when writing a recipe: it's accuracy.
How can you give an accurate recipe if everyone’s taste is different? Of course, it is important to have the precision of weights and amounts on baking bread and pastries, but a regular everyday dish like this Nopales with chorizo with onions, garlic, tomatoes, and spices is a different story.
NOPALES WITH CHORIZO
What if you do not like onions or garlic? Some people do not like onions at all! Many of the recipes that I prepare are done adding a dash of this, a hint of that, a handful of something else and more than once adding something extra until I get it to my own liking.
This simple Nopales with chorizo in a spicy salsa is one of my favorite ways to eat nopales. I love making it often without thinking in amounts or weights, and for the first time, I am writing down the recipe for my own future reference. Enjoy it and make it any way you want, after all, you are tasting it.
Nopales with Chorizo Recipe
DIRECTIONS:
- Heat oil in a large skillet over medium heat. Add onion, and cook, stirring, until soft, about 3 minutes. (Please check the ingredients list for Nopales with Chorizo below)
- Add the chorizo (casings removed) and keep cooking about 8-9 minutes. Stirring from time to time.
- While the chorizo is cooking place the tomato, serrano pepper and 1 cup of water in a saucepan and cook on medium heat until tomatoes and pepper are tender. After cooking, place the tomato and pepper with a ¼ cup of the water in your blender and process until you have a smooth sauce. Set aside.
- Once the chorizo has cooked add the nopales and stir.
- Add the sauce to your nopales with chorizo, and let it simmer for a few minutes just to let the flavors to blend. Adding more water if the food in the skillet becomes too dry. Season with salt and pepper.
Serve immediately with corn tortillas.
This recipe for Nopales with chorizo can be also made with a salsa verde instead of using the Tomatoes in this recipe.
Buen Provecho!
UPDATED: JULY 14TH 2018
NOPALES WITH CHORIZO RECIPE
Ingredients
- 2 cups cooked nopales prickly pear cactus paddles
- 3 chorizos about 2 oz each
- 1 ½ tablespoon vegetable oil
- ½ cup finely diced onion
- 2 medium tomatoes about 1 ½ cup diced
- 1 serrano pepper
- ⅛ teaspoon freshly ground cumin optional
- Salt and ground pepper to taste
Instructions
- Place the tomato, serrano pepper and 1 cup of water in a saucepan, and cook on medium heat until tomatoes and pepper are tender. They will take about 15 minutes to cook.
- While the tomatoes and peppers are cooking. Heat oil in a large skillet over medium heat. Add onion, and cook, stirring, until soft, about 3 minutes.
- Add the chorizo (casings removed) and keep cooking about 8-9 minutes. Stirring from time to time.
- Once the tomatoes and peppers are cooked, place them in your blender with a ¼ cup of the water, and process until you have a smooth sauce. Set aside.
- When the chorizo is cooked add the nopales.
- Stir in the sauce, and let it simmer for a few minutes just to let the flavors to blend. About 5 minutes. Adding more water if the food in the skillet becomes too dry. Season with salt and pepper.
- Serve immediately with corn tortillas.
Nutrition
Now tell me, do you cook by taste or by the book?
¡Buen provecho!
Mely,
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Luisana Cayetano
We are trying this recipe right now! Thanks Mely.
Mely
Hello Luisana,
Do come back to tell me the results.
Tiffany
Can i use a jar of nopalitos i have for this?
mmartinez
Hello Tiffany,
yes, you can. I know, not everyone can find fresh Nopales and the ones from the jar are good. Happy Cooking!