🍢 Anticuchos de corazón (beef heart skewers)

Name: Anticuchos de corazón (beef heart skewers)
Total time: 40 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Peru · Lima
Ingredients: 800 g beef heart, trimmed and sliced 1 cm thick; 3 tbsp aji panca paste; 60 ml vinegar; 4 garlic cloves, crushed; 1 tsp ground cumin; 1 tsp dried oregano; 2 tbsp vegetable oil; Salt and black pepper; Bamboo skewers, soaked in water

Origin: Peru · Lima

360kcal

per serving · 200 g

180kcal

per 100 g

46 gProtein23 g / 100 g

16 gFat8 g / 100 g

8 gCarbs4 g / 100 g

Anticuchos de corazón are the original Peruvian anticuchos: thin slices of beef heart soaked in a smoky red marinade of aji panca, vinegar, garlic and cumin, threaded onto cane skewers and seared over charcoal. The result is smoky, gently spicy and surprisingly tender. They are eaten hot from street grills, usually with potatoes and corn.

Diets

✓

No porkfor halal, the meat must be halal-slaughtered

✓

Gluten-freeno wheat, barley or rye in a typical recipe

✓

Dairy-freeno milk, cheese, butter or yogurt in a typical recipe

✓

Keto-friendly4 g carbs per 100 g

✓

High protein23 g protein per 100 g — 51% of the calories

Not vegetarianbecause of: beef heart

Not veganbecause of: beef heart

Allergens

None of the 14 major allergens in a typical recipe.

What it is made of

beef heartají pancavinegargarliccumin

Recipe

4 servings40 min

Ingredients

800 g beef heart, trimmed and sliced 1 cm thick
3 tbsp aji panca paste
60 ml vinegar
4 garlic cloves, crushed
1 tsp ground cumin
1 tsp dried oregano
2 tbsp vegetable oil
Salt and black pepper
Bamboo skewers, soaked in water

Method

Stir together the aji panca, vinegar, garlic, cumin, oregano, salt and pepper.
Coat the beef heart slices in the marinade, cover and refrigerate for 3–12 hours.
Thread the slices onto the skewers. Mix the oil into the remaining marinade.
Grill over very hot charcoal for about 2 minutes per side, brushing with the marinade, until smoky and lightly charred.
Serve immediately with boiled potatoes, corn and chilli sauce.

How to make it lighter

A plate of two skewers is mostly protein — the sides decide the calories.
Choose corn or potato, not both, and add a salad.
Brush with marinade rather than oil; 1 tbsp oil is about 120 kcal.

History

Corazón means heart, and beef heart is the classic cut for anticuchos in Peru. The dish is usually traced to colonial times, when enslaved Africans turned this inexpensive cut into a grilled speciality, building on older Andean skewer traditions. Today anticuchos de corazón are a fixture of Lima's evening street food.

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Values are estimates per 100 g for a typical recipe; home and restaurant versions vary. Diets and allergens are worked out from the ingredients of a typical recipe — always check with whoever cooked the dish. Not medical advice. Nutrition data: Me Nutrition dish database v13. How we count →