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Macho Camacho

A Bolivian sandwich filled with thin beef steak, a fried egg, slices of fried potato and hot sauce. It originated in Santa Cruz and is often very hearty, eaten at midday or in the evening.

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Ingredients

Ingredients

Sauce piquante

Spices & seasoning

Optional extras

Instructions

  1. Make the sauce: finely chop the small red chilli, mix it with the vinegar, oil and a pinch of salt, then set aside.
  2. Peel the potatoes, cut them into thin rounds and fry them in 2 tablespoons of oil over medium heat for 8 to 10 minutes, until golden. Drain and salt them.
  3. Season the steaks with salt, pepper and cumin. Sear them in a very hot pan for 2 to 3 minutes per side, depending on how you like them cooked.
  4. In another pan with the remaining oil, fry the eggs over medium heat until the whites are set and the yolks still runny.
  5. Thinly slice the red onion, and cut the tomatoes and green chilli into thin rounds.
  6. Open the rolls and warm them briefly in the oven or in a pan.
  7. Fill each roll with ham, a steak, a fried egg, fried potatoes, then onion, tomato and green chilli.
  8. Add a few spoonfuls of hot sauce, close the sandwich and serve right away.

Variations and tips

Chicken version. Replace the beef with thin chicken escalopes, flattened and seasoned the same way.

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