Discovered the Soyrizo Meatless Soy Chorizo (produced by Frieda's Inc.) while vacationing in Florida at the Kissimme Super Wallmart in the fresh produce section.
Soyrizo come unfrozen vacuum packed with two large chorizo in the package. To prepare them you simply need to remove them from the packaging and then you have remove the plastic sausage casing before cooking them up in a lightly oiled frying pan. Removing them from their casing proved a bit difficult and one of the two chorizo got a bit squished.
Because the casing were removed, both sausages quickly started loosing their shape, so I cut them into smaller sections which helped a bit. Once cooked all the way through it was time for tasting. Of course, you could simply break it all up and cook it up like ground beef if you prefer.
For once, I discovered a soy based sausage that didn't taste like a soy hot dog or any other soy product. The color was dark and the taste was exceptional. There was just the right amount of heat (some on the meek side might find them a bit spicy) and the texture was fantastic. The two large sausages proved a bit much so we had about a half a chorizo left over for the following day. The next day we added it to some vegetarian chili and it worked wonderfully.
From a nutritional perspective, the Soyrizo are high on fat. According to the label the package contains six portions (more likely it would work well for 3-4 adults) and each portion contains 9g of fat. Fortunately, this is not trans fat. They were also a bit high on the sodium side (but what sausage isn't). On the positive side of nutrition each portion contains 10% of daily requirements of iron and 6% of daily requirements of calcium.
We rate Soyrizo a 4.5 out of 5. It would have scored a 5 out 5 if the sausage casing used was an edible casing instead of a plastic casing which had to be removed prior to cooking.
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