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Argentine Oven Roast

📍 Argentina
⏱️Prep: 15 min
🔥Cook: 90 min
Total: 105 min
🍽️6 servings
Difficulty: Medium

Argentine oven roast is the domestic version of the gaucho parrilla for days without a garden. Beef short ribs, criollo sausages, and blood sausages roast slowly until the fat sputters and the meat turns tender. Chimichurri — parsley, garlic, oregano, and vinegar — is the indispensable accompaniment. In Argentina this is not a special occasion dish; it is Sunday lunch.

🛒 Ingredients

6 servings
  • 1 kg beef short ribs
  • 4 Argentine chorizo sausages
  • 2 blood sausages
  • For the chimichurri: parsley, oregano, garlic, vinegar, oil, crushed red pepper, salt

👨‍🍳 Step-by-step instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 200°C (or use grill/broil on high).

  2. Generously season the meat with salt and pepper just before cooking.

  3. Place the beef short ribs on the oven rack.

  4. Roast for 30 minutes, flip, then roast another 30 minutes.

  5. Halfway through cooking, add the chorizo and blood sausage.

  6. Meanwhile, prepare the chimichurri by mixing all ingredients. Let it rest for 30 minutes.

💡 Chef's tip

Argentine asado is NOT marinated. Only coarse salt, and just before cooking: premature salting dries out the meat.

📝 Our take

Argentine asado in the oven is not a replacement for the grill — it is an adaptation for those without one, and a very good one at that. The rule is the same: no marinade, only coarse salt applied just before cooking. The chimichurri is made at least an hour before so the herbs can macerate. With good quality ribs, the result is hard to fault.

🍷 Wine & food pairing

Malbec from Mendoza, medium to high altitude. This is the quintessential wine for Argentine asado: dark fruit, some violet, and enough tannin for fatty beef.

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