Región CENTER Salados

ROLL OF COLD VISCACHA, CHIMICHURRI FROM THE SIERRAS AND WATERCRESS SALAD

One way to taste this unusual meat is cold, rolled and with a tasty chimichurri from the sierras, made with local herbs.

ROLL OF COLD VISCACHA, CHIMICHURRI FROM THE SIERRAS AND WATERCRESS SALAD

Ingredientes

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

Procedimiento

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.

tips*

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.

El dato: VISCACHA

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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