Uruguay recipes

Recipes from Uruguay: home cooking with cultural background, ingredient substitutes and step-by-step instructions.

Latin America & Caribbean
Uruguayan capeletis a la Caruso: meat-filled pasta coated in a creamy sauce with ham and mushrooms
Latin America & Caribbean

Capeletis a la Caruso: Uruguay's Creamy Ham-and-Mushroom Pasta

A recipe for capeletis a la Caruso, the Uruguayan pasta born in a Montevideo restaurant in 1954: meat-filled capeletti in a sauce of cream, ham, mushrooms, beef extract, and Parmigiano. Includes the Caruso story and how to keep the sauce from splitting.

Uruguay's national dish, chivito: a bun sandwich layered with thin beef steak, fried egg, ham, mozzarella, tomato, and lettuce, served on a wooden board with french fries
Latin America & Caribbean

Chivito: Uruguay's Towering Steak Sandwich

A full chivito recipe, Uruguay's national sandwich: thin beef steak layered with a fried egg, ham, mozzarella, and olives, the most generous sandwich in South America. Covers its history from the seaside of Punta del Este and how to make it in a home kitchen, based on primary sources in English.

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