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Chilean Anticuchos or Skewers

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Learn the Chilean touch for this common meat dish.

  • Total Time: 1 hour 30 minutes
  • Yield: 30

Ingredients

Units
  • 4 pounds of pork loin
  • juice of 2 lemons, pepper salt, honey, oregano
  • 4 pounds of top sirloin beef, NY strip steak, or similar
  • paprika, salt, pepper, red wine vinegar, oregano
  • 2 onions
  • 3 bell peppers
  • 6 Longanizas (in the US buy Kielbasa or Spanish chorizo)
  • bread to serve
  • soaked bamboo or metal skewers

Instructions

  1. About 3 hours before grilling the Anticuchos. Clean the meat, and remove the nerves and fascias. Cut into pieces of 3-5 cm or 2″ per side approximately.
    Beef and pork cubed meat.
  2. Place the beef in a bowl and sprinkle with wine vinegar, just enough to wet the pieces, and season with salt, pepper, oregano, and paprika powder.
    Marinate for the beef cubes.
  3. Place the pork in a bowl, add lemon juice to wet the meat, and season with salt, pepper, and oregano. Use more salt than you think is necessary.
  4. Cover the meat and refrigerate it for 2 hours.
    Marinating the meats.
  5. If using bamboo skewers, soak them for 15 minutes so they do not catch fire.
  6. Cut the onion and bell pepper into large pieces.
  7. Cut the sausage into pieces.
  8. Assemble the Anticuchos in any combination you want. Preheat the grill to high heat. Baste with beer using a bundle of cilantro if desired during the cooking.
    Skewers with the marinated meat and sausage and onions and peppers.
  9. Grill the Anticuchos for about 5 minutes per side.
    Grilling the anticuchos.Grilling the anticuchos.
  10. Warm the bread on the grill and bury it on the tip of the Anticucho right before serving.
    Chilean Anticuchos
  • Author: Pilar Hernandez
  • Prep Time: 1 hour
  • Cook Time: 30 minutes
  • Category: Meat
  • Method: Grilled
  • Cuisine: Chilean

Nutrition

  • Serving Size:
  • Calories: 207
  • Sugar: 1.1 g
  • Sodium: 215.3 mg
  • Fat: 8.1 g
  • Saturated Fat: 2.9 g
  • Carbohydrates: 2.1 g
  • Fiber: 0.5 g
  • Protein: 29.3 g