Milanesa Completa
Argentina's maximal cutlet sandwich is one long defense of a fried crust against ham, cheese, a runny egg, and salad piled on top, judged solely on whether the shatter survives.
Argentina's maximal cutlet sandwich is one long defense of a fried crust against ham, cheese, a runny egg, and salad piled on top, judged solely on whether the shatter survives.
Napolitana milanesa sandwich; the full pizza-topped milanesa in bread format.
In Argentina a caballo is not a dish but a finish: two fried eggs ridden over the top. On a milanesa sandwich the broken yolk is the sauce a dry, crisp cutlet never had.
The medialuna rellena is a sandwich built on a pastry made for dessert: the small glazed butter croissant split and filled, sweet with dulce de leche or, as a mafalda, warmed around ham and cheese.
Croissants with ham and cheese; sweet medialunas (Argentine croissants) filled with ham and cheese, often heated.
Rolled matambre sandwich; matambre stuffed with vegetables, eggs, rolled and sliced.
The lomito is the cheapest-eating expensive cut: a whole-tenderloin sandwich graded by how thin the lomo is sliced and how well the soft Córdoba bread survives the tower of egg, ham and cheese.
Lomito with ham and cheese; common addition.
Simple lomito; just meat with lettuce and tomato.
Complete lomito; grilled tenderloin with lettuce, tomato, ham, cheese, fried egg, mayonnaise. Massive and indulgent.
In Tucumán the lomito comes folded: a thin disc of pan árabe pressed around seared lomo, mayonnaise, lettuce and tomato, the mark the Syrian-Lebanese northwest left on Argentina's steak sandwich.
Kibbeh/kibbe; sometimes served in sandwich form.
Hamburger with fried egg; very common in Argentina.