Everything about Churrasco totally explained
Churrasco is a
Spanish and
Portuguese term referring to
beef or grilled meat more generally, differing across
Latin America and
Europe, but a primary dish in the countries of
Argentina,
Brazil,
Nicaragua,
Uruguay and other Latin American countries.
A
churrascaria is a restaurant serving grilled meat, many offering as much as you can eat: the waiters move around the restaurant with the skewers, slicing meat onto the client's plate. This serving style is called Espeto Corrido or Rodizio.
In Latin America
In
Argentina,
Uruguay and in the South of
Brazil a
churrasco is a thick cut of skirt
steak.
Gauchos would have grilled churrasco as part of their
asado, now the national dish of both countries, served with
chimichurri, salad and fried or mashed potatoes, and sometimes a fried egg.
In
Nicaragua churrasco is
tenderloin steak. Portable "churrasqueiras" are similar to those used to prepare the Argentinian and Uruguayan asado, with a grill support, but many Brazilian "churrasqueiras" don't have grills, only the skewers above the
embers. The meat may alternatively be cooked on large metal or wood skewers resting on a support or stuck into the ground and roasted with the embers of charcoal (wood may also be used, especially in the State of
Rio Grande do Sul).
In Europe
In
Portugal,
Frango de Churrasco with
piri piri (a kind of salty roasted chicken cooked on the
churrasqueira, spiced with hot red chili sauce) is very popular and appreciated. Portuguese churrasco and chicken dishes are very popular in countries with Portuguese communities, such as Canada, Australia, Venezuela and South Africa.
The term
churrasco is used in former
Portuguese colonies—a
Churrasco Moçambicano is a grilled meat dish from
Mozambique, for instance.
In
Galicia, churrasco refers almost exclusively to grilled pork or beef spare-ribs. Galicians who emigrated to America in the 20th century took the recipe for churrasco. Nowadays many Galicians of all social classes prepare a churrascada.
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