Vacío al Pan
Vacío in bread; grilled flank steak sandwich.
Vacío in bread; grilled flank steak sandwich.
Flank steak sandwich; vacío (flank/flap steak) is a beloved asado cut, very flavorful, served sliced in bread.
Trout sandwich; Patagonian river trout.
Parrilla sandwich; from traditional grill restaurants.
Flank roll sandwich; matambre (thin flank cut, sometimes stuffed and rolled) in bread.
Cold matambre sandwich; matambre sliced cold.
Llama meat sandwich; in Jujuy, Salta regions.
Tongue sandwich; boiled beef tongue, sliced.
Sándwich de entraña turns Argentina's skirt steak into a sandwich: a thin diaphragm seared hard over a fierce fire, pulled at medium-rare, sliced across its long grain into bread with chimichurri.
Argentina's rib sandwich is built bone-first: a short rib grilled bone-side down for most of an hour, the marrow and grasa de pella seasoning the meat from within, then worked off the bone into bread.
Lamb sandwich; Patagonian lamb, grilled or roasted.
Venison sandwich; Patagonian deer meat.
Pulled pork sandwich; slow-cooked, shredded pork.
Head cheese (boar's head) sandwich.
Barbecue sandwich; general term for any asado meat in bread.
Rolled matambre sandwich; matambre stuffed with vegetables, eggs, rolled and sliced.
The chivito is named for a goat it has never contained. An Argentine asked for chivo at a Punta del Este bar in the 1940s, got a beef steak instead, and the goat's name stuck to a beef sandwich.