Chorizo

Spain’s national sausage, made from pork, seasoned with salt and flavoured with agridulce paprika, garlic and pepper. Fresh chorizo is used for cooking, where it imparts salt and seasonings into a dish, like a floating, meaty bouquet garni. Cured chorizo is cut off into slices and consumed with beer or wine. Good chorizo is hard to find outside Spain but if you happen to find a good butcher who makes a good chorizo it will be well worth the effort.