What Are Chorizo Tacos?

A chorizo taco is fresh Mexican chorizo, a loose, bright-red pork sausage seasoned with chile and vinegar, crumbled and cooked on the griddle until it renders, then spooned onto a corn tortilla with onion and cilantro. Unlike cured Spanish chorizo it is soft and cooked from raw

Chorizo Tacos

It is often mixed with potato (chorizo con papa). Below: what Mexican chorizo is and where to eat chorizo tacos.

Chorizo (Tacos de Chorizo) are Toluca / Central Mexico tacos made with fresh Mexican chorizo, crumbled, griddled until rendered and crisp, served on corn tortillas.

Also called

Tacos de Chorizo

Family

Meat

Filling

Pork sausage

Cut / main ingredient

Fresh Mexican chorizo, crumbled

How it is cooked

Griddled until rendered and crisp

Tortilla

Corn

Usually topped with

Onion, cilantro, potato sometimes

From

Toluca / Central Mexico, Mexico

Mexican chorizo is fresh and crumbly, unlike cured Spanish chorizo

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