Suprema
Chicken supreme; boneless chicken breast, pounded thin, breaded. The standard for chicken milanesa.
Chicken supreme; boneless chicken breast, pounded thin, breaded. The standard for chicken milanesa.
The chicken cousin of the Argentine napolitana family: a fried suprema gratinéed under ham, tomato, and mozzarella, slid into a pan francés before the salamander gives up its window.
The full Argentine chicken-cutlet sandwich: a breaded suprema loaded with cheese, ham, a runny fried egg, lettuce, tomato, and mayonnaise, the stack order built around the egg.
Breaded cutlet sandwich; thin beef (or chicken) pounded, breaded with breadcrumbs, fried until golden, served in bread. Enormous, often r...
'Swiss' milanesa; stuffed with ham and cheese before breading.
Ham, tomato sauce, and mozzarella gratinéed over a fried beef cutlet in pan francés: the Buenos Aires bodegón flagship in sandwich form, named for a restaurant facing Luna Park, not for Naples.
The milanesa de soja is a manufactured soy cutlet breaded and fried to behave like beef under the crust. The core is mild by design, so the coating and the dressing carry the savor.
The milanesa de pollo is the everyday cutlet, the one packed cold into a lunchbox, and the only milanesa with two names: suprema for the breast, milanesa de pollo for the thinner fillet.
The milanesa de cerdo is the cutlet made from pork instead of beef: a fattier, faintly sweet loin slice pounded thin and fried, where the real discipline is cooking it clean through without drying it.
The milanesa de carne is the default cutlet, the plain beef version every other milanesa is named against, and the one where the real choice is the cut: nalga, peceto or cuadrada under the breading.
The milanesa de berenjena is the meatless cutlet that tastes least like a substitute: salt the aubergine to shed its water, fry it hot, and the inside goes silky and sweet behind the crumb.
Milanesa with lettuce and tomato; basic but popular.
Milanesa with ham and cheese sandwich.
Milanesa with fried egg sandwich.
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.