Saturday, January 19, 2008

Most unhealthy breakfast ever

No, it's not the Good Morning Burger (search for it on that link), or the Luther Burger, but it's pretty heart-stopping and ludicrously tasty.

I got the idea for this recipe after visiting Zigana, who incidentally make one of the most consistently awesome coffees in Auckland. (The Santini Coffee shop at the Devonport wharf is the other killer coffee shop that I've found.) Anyway, Zigana has a "Creamy mushroom and chorizo" breakfast that I felt obliged to reproduce at home. Here it is, but just remember that this, along with cookies, is a sometimes food.

Ingredients:
- 1.5 Tbsp butter
- ~1 pound mushrooms of your choosing, sliced into chunks or pizza-style slices
- 3 spicy chorizo sausages, sliced into little oblong disks (Use hard Spanish chorizo, not Mexican chorizo! For a size estimate, the chorizos we get are roughly hotdog sized)
- 3/4 tsp of smoked paprika (Go to a spice shop to find this. The McCormick paprika is a totally different thing. If you haven't tried real paprika, you are going to feel cheated that you haven't before.)
- 1/2 cup heavy cream

Start by melting the butter in a skillet over medium heat and then fry your chorizo until it starts getting a little brown and crispy on the sides.

Next, add the mushrooms and cook until the mushrooms give off their fluid. You should be able to deglaze the pan once this happens. Let the mushrooms cook for another minute or so.

Add the cream and the paprika and stir constantly until the cream reduces to a nice thickened consistency.

You can serve this with some kumara or sweet potato hash browns and it's damn yummy.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Do you think I could get that stuff at the Good Food Store?