Saturday Matambre - Pic Heavy

QingEsq

Hello All!  Happy Memorial Day weekend! 

We had some family friends over today and with half of the group being from South America, I decided to make some matambre for the main course.  Picked up a couple of choice flank steaks at BJs and had the butcher there do most of the knife work to butterfly it.  Seasoned the meet with S&P, garlic powder and Italian herbs.  The stuffing was carrots, kielbasa, bell peppers, ham, cheese.  I lined the rolled up steaks in bacon then wrapped the matambres in foil and tied them down and stored them in the fridge for a couple of hours to let the shape set.

Then, I did a bit of a cheat in bread baking.  My family loves bread that I make from pizza dough from our favorite local Italian restaurant.  I worked the restaurant made dough into a ball with a few pats of butter mixed in then put it on my pizza stone in the egg at 425ish.  A pic of the raw dough from today is attached.  Since I forgot to get the pic of the finished bread, I am attaching a pic of a prior finished boule.

When the bread was finished, I removed the pizza stone and put the matambres on, indirect, with some cherry and mesquite chunks at about 450.  I saw that some on the site had previously knocked matambre because it is traditionally wrapped in foil and was like being cooked in an oven.  That inspired me to split the foil to expose the top of the matambres to get some smoke.  Matambres were pulled with an internal temp between 145 and 150.  They were fantastic.  The crew raved about the matambre and the bread.  It was plated up with SWMBO's excellent garlic mashed potatoes and a southwestern salad with a home made avocado lime dressing that my wife made for the first, but not the last, time.  What a great feast!

Thanks for looking. Sorry about the less than stellar quality of my photography.

SGH

Awesome looking grub brother. Hope that you and your family have a safe and happy Memorial Day weekend as well. Solid cook. 

beachsmoke

That looks fantastic nice job

theyolksonyou

You've expanded my horizons. Never heard matambres before today  thanks for posting