Argentinian Stew in a Pumpkin Shell

http://fooddownunder.com/cgi-bin/recipe.cgi?r=9245

Ingredients:

2 lb Beef stew meat, cut in 1 1/2-in. cubes
1 lrg Onion, chopped
2 x Garlic cloves, minced
3 tbl Oil
2 lrg Tomatoes, chopped
1 lrg Green bell pepper, chopped
Salt, pepper
1 tsp Sugar
1 cup Dried apricots
3 x White potatoes, peeled and diced
3 x Sweet potatoes, peeled and diced
2 cup Beef broth
1 med Pumpkin
Butter or margarine, melted
1/4 cup Dry sherry
1 can Whole kernel corn (1 lb), drained

Method:

• Trim any excess fat from beef and cook with onion and garlic in oil until meat is browned. Add tomatoes, green pepper, 1 tablespoon salt, 1/2 teaspoon pepper, sugar, apricots, white potatoes, sweet potatoes and broth.
• Cover and simmer 1 hour. Meanwhile, cut top off pumpkin and discard. Scoop out seeds and stringy membrane. Brush inside of pumpkin with butter and sprinkle lightly with salt and pepper. Stir sherry and corn into stew and spoon into pumpkin shell. Place shell in shallow pan and bake at 325F 1 hour, or until pumpkin meat is tender. Place pumpkin in large bowl and ladle out stew, scooping out some of pumpkin with each stew serving.

Asado Salad

http://www.popular-traditional-argentina-food.com/asadosalad.html

Ingredients:

White Onions Carrots Fresh Basil Olive Oil Salt Pepper Lemon Juice Grated Cheese

Directions:

1. Put 1-2 unpeeled onions near the asado, they should slowly cook. Turn them often so they turn brown all around
2. Grate the carrots
3. When the onions are brown and soft, move them from the fire, peel them under water, then dice them into small pieces.
4. Mix the onions and the carrots, add salt and pepper.
5. Add a few ripped basil leaves (tear them with your hands)
6. Sprinkle olive oil and a little lemon juice.
7. Add the grated cheese to flavor
8. Mix the salad

Pollo Rio Negro (Marinated Chicken)

http://www.recipezaar.com/13852

Ingredients:

1 whole chicken, about 2 kg

lemon juice

1 onion, cut up

2 carrots, sliced

1 bay leaf

1 teaspoon rosemary

salt and pepper

1 glass white wine

1 apple, grated

1 tablespoon sugar

Directions:

1. Wash the chicken, cut it in pieces; season well with salt and pepper.
2. Place in a glass baking dish and add the onion, carrots, bay leaf, rosemary and wine.
3. Cover with foil and place in the fridge to marinate for 24 hours.
4. Roast in the oven at 375°, in the same dish covered with the same foil for one hour.
5. Meanwhile, grate the apple and mix it with the water and sugar.
6. Take off the foil, cover the chicken in the apple mixture and continue cooking for 20 minutes more until the chicken is browned.

Fish Empanadas

http://www.popular-traditional-argentina-food.com/fish_empanada.html

Ingredients:

# 2 cups any white fish, boiled. Remember to debone the fish.
# 1 medium onion chopped
# 1/2 medium red pepper in very thin strips
# 1 large tomato seeded and peeled in wedges.
# 3 tablespoons olive oil (cold pressed is prefered).
# 1 tablespoon tomato extract
# 3 tablespoons vegetable or fish broth (water can also be used)
# paprika and salt to taste
# Breadcrumb, garlic and chopped parsley mix

Directions:

1. Combine Oil, chopped onion, red pepper and tomato.
2. Add tomato extract, paprika and salt to form a rather thick sauce. (if sauce comes out too thick, add more broth)
3. Mix in fish with sauce, and if sauce has not thickened, add breadcrumb garlic mix. (Adjust for salt)
4. Fill rounds of doe with fish filling and bake in a hot oven. (around 350’- 400’)

Milanesa Napolitana

http://www.popular-traditional-argentina-food.com/milanesa.html

Ingredients:

# 2 pounds of cut meat strips
# 3 eggs
# 2 heads of garlic
# 1 can of tomato sauce
# 1 lb of port cheese
# oregano
# flour
# bread crumps
# oil

Directions:

Prepare the meat
1) Get the meat
2) Remove the fat
3) Cut the meat into long, thin slices.
4) Salt both sides of the meat

Prepare the eggs and bread crumbs
1) In a large, deep plate add the bread crumbs and flour (You don't need to add it all)
2) Prepare another deep plate or bowl with the eggs, beat them then add some salt
3) Dice the parsly and garlic.
4) Add oregano, diced parsly and diced garlic with the eggs, mix well.

Making the milanesas
1) Put the thin meat strips into the egg mixture, then put it into the bread crumb mixture.
2) Once again put the meat into the eggs, and then the bread crumbs.
3) The meat should be covered with the bread crumbs
4) Add oil to a frying pan, when the oil is hot begin to fry the breaded meat.
5) Flip the meat to allow it to cook on both sides.
6) When the breaded meat is cooked, place it on a plate with paper towels to absorb the oil.
7) Heat the tomato sause.
8) Move the milanesas to another flat pan.
9) Cover the milanesas in salsa, then cut slices of cheese and place them on the salsa.
You should almost cover the whole milanesa in salsa and cheese.
10) Place the pan of milanesas in the oven, the cheese should melt.
11) Then enjoy!

Milanesa tastes great with Asado Salad! Check Asado Salad.