One way to taste this unusual meat is cold, rolled and with a tasty chimichurri from the sierras, made with local herbs.
for 8 portions
1 unit | DEBONED VISCACHA |
5 g. | GRINDED CHILI |
1 unit | CHOPPED CHILI |
10 g. | THYME |
8 g. | PEPPER |
15 g. | MEDIUM QUALITY SALT |
1000 cc. | WHITE WINE |
Stuffing
250 g. | SMOKED BACON |
200 g. | SPINACH |
8 units | HARD BOILED EGGS |
1 unit | CARROT |
2 units | GARLIC |
10 g. | CHOPPED PARSLEY |
14 g. | UNFLAVORED JELLY |
20 g. | TABLE SALT |
Chimichurri
5 g. | GRINDED CHILI |
5 g. | DRY OREGANO |
10 g. | FRESH PARSLEY |
2 units | GARLIC |
20 g. | SALT |
80 cc. | HOT WATER |
30 cc. | WINE VINEGAR |
100 cc. | SUNFLOWER OIL |
300 g. | CULTIVATED WATERCRESES |
50 cc. | CLASSIC VINAIGRETTE |
Place on a skillet with the marinated ingredients. Let rest the previously deboned viscacha in the marinade one night in the refrigerator. Make hard boiled eggs. Peel and cut the carrot lengthwise in fine bars. Chop garlic and parsley. Extend the viscacha upside down. Put salt and powder garlic and parsley. Cover with spinach leaves. Place the bacon slices. Put the carrot bars lengthwise. Place the eggs in a queue lengthwise, beside the carrot. Powder with jelly. Roll the viscacha. Sew with needle and thread. Wrap the roll in a cloth y tie with cotton thread. Boil the roll in much salty water during 2 hours. Remove and press during 4 hours minimum, it can be made placing on top a board and weight on it. Remove the cloth and the threads. Serve the roll, cold, cut in slices, with the classic chimichurri and a fresh watercress salad.
You can wrap the pieces in various layers of kitchen paper film and then in aluminum paper to avoid the sewing and regarding the cooking, it can be made in a soft oven during 2 hours.
Although the viscacha is a rodent, its meat is consumed in various points of the provinces. In this zone the so called viscacha of the plains (“Lagostomus maximus”), is raised. Its meat is slightly hard. So it needs a marinade to be well done.
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