Chorizo Carbonara

[Rich_L]

Cooked this last night for the lads, we had a little mediterranean fair round the corner from work so picked up a chorizo sausage and had a think of what to make, friend from work gave me this recipe which turned out pretty nice (feeds 3 hungry chaps..!)

Ingredients
1 red onion
1 white onion
2 cloves garlic
1 red pepper
Mushrooms
Chorizo
Black pepper
Chilli powder
1 pack of grated parmesan
1 pack of shaved parmesan
Double cream
Pasta

To do:

Finely chop the garlic, slice up the onions, red pepper and mushroooms and then cut the chorizo up into small chunks. Drizzle some olive oil in a pan, heat up then bung in the above....enjoy the smell (MMMMmmmm). Add a healthy bit of black pepper and leave to sizzle for a couple of minutes. After a couple of minutes, add about 1/3rd of a pint of water, then reduce the heat a bit and leave to simmer and reduce.

Meanwhile, start cooking the pasta, I used fusilli but would work well with spaghetti or tagliatelli I think Keep an eye on the other pan and stir occasionally! About 2 minutes before the pasta is done, pop the packet of grated parmesan in as well as a few of the shavings and stir it in for about a minute or so. Then add the double cream and stir that all in.

Drain the pasta - throw in the chorizo mixture and stir the whole lot up and serve straight away.

Served mine up with some fresh spinach leaves and cherry tomatoes - pretty damn tasty and easy too