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| | Tapino Kitchen & Wine Bar | What is Spanish Chorizo? |
 | | Spanish chorizo, on the other hand, is made basically with coarse chopped pork, sweet paprika and garlic, and is cured either to a hard sausage consistency, to be sliced and eaten as an appetizer, or to a slightly softer consistency for use in cooking. |
 | | Chorizos as we know them, with their characteristic reddish tinge, seem to have been a 16th century invention from the westerly region of Extremadura, where the first seeds for red peppers from the New World were cultivated by monks at Guadalupe. |
 | | When the chorizos are ready, they are taken down and packed into sealed poly-bags filled with an inert gas, which prevents further curing and drying, for up to three months. |
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