3 dishes people actually cook in Argentina: what they are, how long they take, and what you need to buy.
What can you cook from Argentina? 3 traditional Argentina dishes, from Milanesa (90 min, the quickest) to Empanadas (855 min, the longest). Each recipe is written step by step with full ingredient lists, free to read.
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Argentine asado is two hours over low embers with coarse salt as the only seasoning, no marinade and no oil on the meat.
Argentine empanadas are built on knife-cut beef, cumin and paprika, a beef-fat dough, and a filling chilled solid before it is sealed in.
Thin beef steaks marinated for hours in beaten egg with garlic and parsley, then breaded and fried; no flour ever touches them.
Copper documents three dishes from Argentina: Asado, Empanadas and Milanesa. Garlic and red pepper flakes each appear in more than one recipe. Two of the three are fried. One of the three needs an oven. Between them they use 29 different ingredients.
The three recipes need 29 ingredients between them, of which 2 are shared by more than one dish. Red pepper flakes the hardest to find: of the 586 dishes in Copper's atlas, 3 use red pepper flakes. Every ingredient list on this page is complete, with quantities, and free to read.
Milanesa is the quickest at 90 minutes. Empanadas is the longest at 855 minutes, most of it unattended. The median is 180 minutes — a weekend dish rather than a weeknight one.
Milanesa is rated easy — start there. The full method is on its recipe page, step by step, free to read.
Argentina is part of South American.
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