Uruguayan Pork “Skirt Steak” with Mustard Plum Barbecue Sauce

Preparation info
  • Serves

    4

    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
Planet Barbecue

By Steven Raichlen

Published 2010

  • About

Ah, the redemptive powers of barbecue. What do the fajita, vacillo, and matambre have in common? All are made from thin, flat, fibrous muscles from the underbelly of the steer that overcompensate in flavor what they may lack in tenderness. Well, there’s a new budget steak on the block, and it comes not from beef, but pork. Uruguayans and Argentineans call it matambrillo, and if you see it on a menu in those countries, don’t miss it. As to exactly where it comes from, an