The General's Bullets (Stuffed Eggs)
Origin: Buenos Aires
Source: Luisa G. de Murature, 1890
Ingredients
- 1 dozen Eggs
- Boiled beef (carne del puchero; puchero = boiled dinner)
- Roasted peanuts (maní tostado)
- Parsley
- White onion
- Pepper
- Salt
- 1 pinch Cumin (cominos)
- Muscatel raisins (pasas de uva moscatel)
- Butter
- 1/2 glass Sweet wine
- Bread and cheese crumbs (ralladuras de pan y queso)
Instructions
- Hard-boil a dozen eggs.
- Cool, dry and pound a piece of boiled beef from the puchero; then grind roasted peanuts.
- Mix into the meat chopped parsley and white onion, pepper, salt, a pinch of cumin and muscatel raisins.
- Melt butter in a pan and, at first boil, mix in the seasoned meat with half a glass of sweet wine; cook ten minutes and cool.
- Shell and halve the eggs, remove the yolks, and fill with the meat mixture; close them.
- Dip in egg batter thickened with bread and cheese crumbs, fry in butter, and pile up like a stack of bullets to serve.