How To Cook Beef Asado Food

ASADO

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.

BEEF ASADO

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.

HOW TO COOK BEEF ASADO

Steps:

• Place the meat in a saucepan and add vinegar, pepper, 1/2 of garlic, salt, bay leaf and soy sauce.
• Allow it to boil for 5 minutes.
• Add 2 cups water and let boil until meat is tender. Fry the potatoes until golden brown, then set aside.
• Saute garlic, onions and tomatoes; then, add in meat mixture, potatoes and red/green pepper.
• Add the achuete juice to the mixture and cook until done. Serve hot. Good for 6 persons.
• For every 1 Tbsp. atchuete seeds, pour 2 Tbsp. hot water and let stand for at least 30 minutes.
• Remove the seeds and the liquid is your achuete juice.

CARNE ASADO

Steps:

• Sort through the stew meat, trimming off excess fat, gristle. Cut into 1" pieces. if necessary.
• In medium-sized, heavy pot, place enough bacon drippings or melted lard to cover the bottom. Place stew meat, garlic and onion in the pot and saute until the meat is lightly browned.
• Add water to cover and add two or three tablespoons of beef bouillon, cumin, pepper and tomato sauce. Cover. Simmer on low heat until meat is tender.
• Toward the end of the cooking time (about 1 hr.), add flour to thicken and continue simmering , stirring from time to time, for an additional 10 minute.
• Remove from heat and serve with rice and refried beans. Warm flour tortillas also go well with this dish.