Chori Zo was an ancient Tibetan monk who meditated on sausage. He later moved to Mexico.

[madbaker]

This week's Resolution Recipe: Mexican Chorizo.

680 g pork shoulder
320 g pork jowl
7.1 g sea salt
2.6 g onion powder
3.5 g cumin
3.5 g cayenne pepper
8.8 g smoked paprika
0.9 g garlic powder (Ha! I used... more.)
0.4 g crushed chili flakes
32 ml water
13 ml cider vinegar (pomgar)

Grind the pork shoulder and jowl together twice through the coarse plate to blend. Mix the spices into the vinegar and water and then blend in well, but do not overmix. Let rest overnight in the fridge before using.

What worked: This is an easier cut-down version than some I've seen. I had 1015 g pork shoulder butt in the freezer waiting to be used, so I went with just that instead of buying additional jowl. I know that makes this less unctious, but I'm okay with that.
It had a nice heat that was assertive, but not overwhelming. It will make good tacos and be a good freezer ingredient (aka "What do we have that I can cook with greens?") I stuck it in a gallon Ziploc in the freezer, so I can carve off squares to use as needed.

What didn't: I threw in some oregano, because I like herbs in my chorizo. I like the linked oregano/marjoram/thyme/bay spicing (herbing?) better for its flavor.

I maintain that "pommegar" should be an acceptable word to describe cider vinegar. "Vinegar" comes from "vin aigre", sour wine; malt vinegar was once more widely known in English as "alegar". Pommegar fits into that linguistic usage since it comes from apples. By extension we should also have ricegar.
Sadly (but predictably), I am likely the only person who actually thinks about things like this.

Will I make it again? Probably. It's a good thing to have around.

Comments

Pommegar

[learnteach.livejournal.com]

As long as it doesn't turn into pommegarum...

Works for me.

Pommegar
Vinagre
alegar

risegar (ris, OF from the Italian rizo from the Latin oriza, from the greek...)

[kareina.livejournal.com]

The Swedish word for "the moose" (when speaking of more than one of them) is "älgar", which while it has two points of difference with your malt vinegar word, was still close enough to make me do a double-take to be certain that wasn't what you'd typed.

[loup_noir]

Sounds wonderful. I wonder where, around hereish, one could find jowls for sale?

[madbaker.livejournal.com]

Do you have any good butchers?

[madbaker.livejournal.com]

I also thought it was fine with 100% pork butt.