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Chimichurri (Spanish: [tʃimiˈtʃuri]) is an uncooked sauce used as an ingredient in cooking and as a table condiment for grilled meat. Found originally in Argentinian cuisine but also use in Uruguayan, Paraguayan and Brazilian cuisines, it has become widely adopted in most of Latin America.
May 9, 2022 · Chimichurri is an uncooked sauce used principally on grilled meat. Available in both green (chimichurri verde) and red (chimichurri rojo) varieties, it stems from Argentine cuisine. Here’s everything you need to know about where it’s from and how to use it. Argentine in its origins, chimichurri is typically made of finely-chopped parsley ...
Jun 26, 2023 · Jerry Cooke/Getty Images. A very plausible origin for chimichurri comes from a big part of Argentinian history and culture: the gauchos. Similar in life and legend to the cowboys of North America, gauchos were nomadic horsemen who herded and hunted the cattle that once freely roamed the land.
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Most people think this herb-packed sauce originated with the gauchos who roamed the fertile grasslands that are now in Argentina, Uruguay, and Paraguay during the 19th century, though it appears in cookbooks only after the late 1950s.
Jun 1, 2021 · According to Daniel Balmaceda, an Argentinian historian and author, the word "chimichurri" comes from the Quechua, an Indigenous population who have lived in the Andean region of northern...
Jul 16, 2023 · Another possibility is that the sauce got its name from the many Basques who settled in Argentina in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. There is a Basque sauce called tximitxurri that is similar in many ways to chimichurri.
May 18, 2024 · The truth is, there are so many variations in the world of Chimichurri, that it’s now difficult to say which interpretation is the closest to the original. What is Chimichurri you may be asking? Chimichurri is a native Uruguayan and Argentinian loose, oil-based condiment used to accompany barbecued meats or churrasco (grilled beef).
