Beginner
Brazilian
Pão de Queijo (Cheese Bread)
Source: Traditional
45 min690 kcal
VegetarianGluten-free
Choripán
A grilled chorizo split down the middle, pressed cut side down on the embers, put in a crusty roll and loaded with chimichurri — sold outside every football ground in the country.
Source
Recipe by Argentine parrillas · 🏺 Traditional · The grill, and the person who owns it — a wood fire burned down to embers, meat laid on wide bars, and three hours during which nobody is in a hurry.
Argentine · the asado sandwich — An ownerless traditional dish, so no cook is credited. The cited article confirms it as an asado sandwich with grilled chorizo and records that it is popular in Argentina, Chile and neighbouring countries. Quantities, the split-after-grilling instruction and the chimichurri are this book's own.
Watch it being made · 3 videos
⏱ 35 min🍽 4 servings🔥 620 kcal🇦🇷 Argentina🌶️🌶️
Nut-free
Steps
Chop the parsley and garlic very fine, mix with the oregano, chilli, salt, vinegar and oil and leave the chimichurri 30 minutes.
💡 Chop it, never blend it. Blended chimichurri goes green and bitter; hand-chopped stays loose with the oil sitting separately.
Grill the whole sausages over medium embers for 12 minutes, turning every 3, until firm and browned.
Take them off, split each one lengthwise almost all the way through and open it out flat like a book.
💡 Split them after grilling, not before. Cut first and all the fat runs into the fire while they cook.
Lay them cut side down on the grill for 3 minutes to char the open face.
Split the rolls and toast them cut side down for 1 minute.
Put a sausage in each roll and spoon chimichurri over it — more than looks sensible. Eat standing up.
💡 Tips
- The word is just chorizo plus pan. Argentina names its most famous sandwich after its two ingredients and stops there.
- Split, opened out flat and grilled again — that shape is called mariposa, butterfly, and it is what makes it fit the bread.
- It is the first thing served at an asado, while the ribs still have two hours to go.
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