Asado Recipes

Steps:

• In a bowl, combine the olive oil, orange juice, lemon juice, lime juice, salt, pepper and garlic cloves. Whisk together.
• Place the chicken legs, juiced pieces of fruit and quartered onions in large plastic bags or a bowl. Pour the marinade over the top, tossing to combine. Cover with plastic wrap (if using bowl) or seal the bag up and marinate for at least 2 hours ... several hours is better. Toss a few times during the marinating process.
• Preheat a grill. Grill the chicken legs until cooked all the way through, turning occasionally so the chicken is cooked on all sides, 10 to 12 minutes.
• Separate the tortillas into 2 piles of 16, and then wrap each pile in foil and warm over the grill for 10 to 15 minutes.
• Serve the chicken legs with the warm tortillas, pico de gallo, refried beans and chipotle salsa.

Steps:

• Cook on a medium heated grill, slowly, basting with appropriate marinades until cooked perfectly. Eat each meat as it finishes cooking.
• Chimichurri for Beef, Innards and Sausage: In a food processor, combine parsley, cloves, chile flakes, and salt and pepper. Completely puree until fine, in a serving container, add vinegar and oil.
• Argentine Marinade for Chicken or Seafood: Steep saffron in lemon juice for 5 minutes. Combine all ingredients and keep covered.

Steps:

• Heat oil in a heavy pot.
• Add pork, salt and pepper, stirring until well browned and most of the liquid is evaporated.
• Add garlic and saute 1 minute more.
• Add flour, stirring until thoroughly coated.
• Add water all at once.
• Add cumin and chili powder.
• Stir thoroughly until gravy is dark and velvety smooth.
• Add more chili powder to taste.
• Bring to boil, reduce heat, cover and simmer 20 minutes, or until pork is tender.
• Serve with rice and tortillas.

Steps:

• Season the beef with salt and pepper; set aside.
• Heat the oil in a skillet over medium heat; cook the diced onion and garlic in the hot oil until softened, about 5 minutes. Transfer the onion and garlic to a 6-quart pot. Individually brown the beef chunks on all sides in the skillet and place in the pot. Add the tomatoes, crushed peppercorns, olives with their juice, quartered onion, bay leaves, and bouillon cubes to the pot; bring to a boil. Stir the ketchup into the mixture, reduce heat to medium-low, and simmer 1 hour.
• Remove the beef from the pot and set aside. Add the red bell pepper to the mixture and continue simmering another 30 minutes.
• While the mixture continues to simmer, heat 2 tablespoons oil in the skillet. Cook the potatoes in the oil until golden brown; immediately add to the simmering mixture.
• Slice the meat against the grain and add to the pot; stir. Cook together another 5 minutes before serving. If the sauce is too thin, mix the corn flour and water together and stir into the sauce to thicken.

Steps:

• Cut chicken breasts into two halves.
• Heat oil in small saucepan over medium high heat until very hot.
• While oil heats, mash cumin, salt, oregano, garlic and achiote powder into a paste with a mortar and pestle. Place the paste in a heat-proof bowl.
• Whisk hot oil into the garlic paste. Allow to cool slightly then add lime and orange juice, stirring well to combine.
• Pour marinade into a large ziploc bag, add chicken breast halves. Shake or knead to spread marinade throughout chicken.
• Refrigerate at least four hours to overnight.
• Grill over medium heat, turning, until chicken reaches internal temperature of 180 degrees.
• Place chicken on cutting board and let rest several minutes.
• Serve individually, or cut into bite sized pieces for making tacos or burritos.