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Chimichurri Sauce

Last updated March 9, 2022. Originally posted March 9, 2022 By Jyothi Rajesh 17 Comments

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Chimichurri sauce is a vibrant, fresh, herbaceous sauce that has a wonderful flavor balance profile of tangy, savory, and a little spice. Traditionally served with grilled steak, but it’s great on grilled chicken and fish too.

This green herb salsa sauce is incredibly flavorful is a popular accompaniment for grilled meats in Argentina and other parts of South America.

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  • What is chimichurri sauce
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  • 📋Chimichurri Sauce

Why you must try this sauce

1. Traditionally you’d put chimichurri sauce on steak, this sauce works well as a marinade for meat and vegetables. Who needs butter, cream, cheese, bacon to flavor the meat, when you can have full of fresh flavors from green goodness sauce.

2. Chimichurri sauce pairs great with grilled chicken and roasted vegetables. It would work well with white flaky fish, grilled shrimp, roasted potatoes, on cauliflowers, grilled meat (steak and chicken).

3. Chimichurri sauce is extremely versatile. It can be made with almost any fresh green herb of your choice. While flat-leaf parsley is the herb that is used in traditional chimichurri Argentina sauce, you can cheat by picking any fresh herb that has flooded your garden.

4. This sauce is usually made in a mortar and pestle bashing and mashing everything together until it resembles a sauce or chops all ingredients finely, so you get THE BEST, flavor bursting out just like authentic chimichurri sauce.

What is chimichurri sauce

Easy traditional Argentinian sauce served with grilled/BBQ steaks. This sauce is bursting with flavors and you can put it on everything. It’s perfect with steaks, stirred in soups, spread on grilled meat, fish, shrimps, so amazing when spread on a grilled cheese sandwich, or simply toss it up with pasta.

making chimichurri sauce in bowl

What’s you’ll need

Here’s what you’ll need-

  • 1 cup fresh flat-leaf parsley (leaves and tender stem included)
  • ¼ cup fresh cilantro leaves and tender stem
  • 1 small shallot or red onion
  • 4 cloves of garlic
  • 3 tablespoons full tightly packed fresh oregano
  • 2 tablespoons lime juice
  • 2 tablespoons red wine vinegar
  • 1 or 2 fresh red chilies (red jalapenos or red Fresno chilies) adjust as per taste, optional
  • ½ teaspoon sea salt
  • 1 teaspoon fresh ground pepper
  • ½-3/4 cup good quality extra virgin olive oil
all ingredients for chimichurri saice

How to make chimichurri sauce

  • If you’d like to try the traditional way of making this sauce, use a mortar and pestle to pound the fresh herbs together along with garlic and other ingredients.
  • Or you could even chop everything super fine by hand like the way I did. A good sharp knife, a bit of patience, and a little extra time are needed to make this lovely green goodness sauce.
  • Chop fresh flat-leaf parsley, cilantro, and fresh oregano super fine with a sharp knife. I prefer to use a tender stem too that I chop super fine. The tender stem of all these herbs is loaded with flavors, don’t throw the tender stem, include it into the sauce to enhance the flavor.
  • Mix finely chopped parsley, cilantro leaves, and fresh oregano super fine. Add chopped herbs to a bowl.
chopping herbs for chimichurri sauce
  • Finely chop shallots (or red onion), garlic, red jalapeno. Add it to a separate bowl.
chopping ingredients for chimichurri sauce
  • Add red wine vinegar and salt to shallot-garlic chilies. Mix and let it sit for 10 minutes.
  • Add chopped herbs, freshly squeezed lemon juice, ground pepper to taste, and good quality extra virgin olive oil.
  • Stir until well combined. The herbs and rest of the ingredients should be submerged in oil. Note: add extra olive oil is needed so herbs are submerged in oil.
step by step picture collage of making chimichurri sauce

FAQS

Can I use food processor to chop?

Traditionally chimichurri is made using a mortal and pestle to mash the herbs and other ingredients together. Or either the ingredients are finely chopped and them mixed to-gather.
If you want to take a quick shortcut, you can use food processor to chop ingredients. Ensure the ingredients are ‘chopped’ and not pureed in the processor.

Variations of chimichurri sauce recipe

While flat-leaf parley is traditionally used to make the authentic version of this sauce, you can make your variation by using a herb of your choice as the hero ingredient.
Use cilantro and garlic with lime to make a flavor-bursting sauce.
Kale chimichurri makes of kale for that extra boost of the health factor.
Fresh spearmint chimichurri sauce – for a fresh minty flavorful sauce.
Chimichurri with curly leaf parsley instead of flat-leaf.
Avocado chimichurri with all the goodness of avo.
Perilla chimichurri

How to use the sauce?

This herbaceous flavor-packed sauce is great with ….almost everything!
with grilled steak, chicken, fish, shrimp,
as a marinade to marinate seafood, chicken,
as a spread on a grilled cheese sandwich,
can be mixed with pasta,
for adding an extra kick to steamed broccoli,
with roasted potatoes,
can be used as dip,
stir in soup,
all roasted vegetables.
with cauliflower steaksoven roasted cauliflower steaks served with chimichurri sauce on white plate

How long does the sauce keep?

It should last for 3 days in a closed jar inside the fridge. The sauce takes in all the flavors and tastes better with time, but sure to use it in 2-3 days. Vinegar in the sauce begins to turn the herbs dark, losing their freshness.
For longer storage, freeze it. The frozen sauce can stay good for up to a few months. Pour into an ice tray and freeze it into cubes. Store frozen cubes in a zip lock cover.

close view of chimichurri sauce

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📋Chimichurri Sauce

Jyothi Rajesh
Chimichurri sauce is vibrant, fresh, herbaceous sauce that has a wonderful flavor balance profile of tangy, savory and a little spice. An incredibly flavorful sauce that is also called as herb (green) salsa is a popular accompaniment for grilled meats in Argentina and other parts of South America. Traditionally served with grilled steak, but it’s great on grilled chicken and fish too.
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Prep Time 15 mins
Course condiments, sauce
Cuisine Argentina, North America,
Servings 2 cups
Calories 530

Ingredients
  

  • 1 cup fresh flat-leaf parsley leaves and tender stem
  • ¼ cup fresh cilantro leaves and tender stem
  • 1 small shallot or red onion
  • 4 cloves garlic
  • 3 tablespoons fresh oregano tightly packed
  • 2 tablespoon lime juice (freshly squeezed)
  • 2 tablespoon red wine vinegar
  • 1 to 2 fresh red chilies (use red jalapenos, red Fresno chilies) -adjust as per taste, optional
  • ½ teaspoon sea salt
  • 1 teaspoon fresh ground pepper
  • ½ -¾ cup good quality extra virgin olive oil

Instructions
 

  • If you’d like to try the traditional way of making this sauce, use a mortar and pestle to pound the fresh herbs together along with garlic and other ingredients.
  • Or you could even chop everything super fine by hand like the way I did. A good sharp knife, a bit of patience, and a little extra time are needed to make this lovely green goodness sauce.
  • Chop fresh flat-leaf parsley, cilantro, and fresh oregano super fine with a sharp knife. I prefer to use a tender stem too that I chop super fine. The tender stem of all these herbs is loaded with flavors, don't throw the tender stem, include it into the sauce to enhance the flavor.
  • Mix finely chopped parsley, cilantro leaves, and fresh oregano super fine. Add chopped herbs to a bowl.
  • Finely chop shallots (or red onion), garlic, red jalapeno. Add it to a separate bowl.
  • Add red wine vinegar and salt to shallot-garlic chilies. Mix and let it sit for 10 minutes.
  • Add chopped herbs, freshly squeezed lemon juice, ground pepper to taste, and good quality extra virgin olive oil.
  • Stir until well combined. The herbs and rest of the ingredients should be submerged in oil.
    Note: add extra olive oil is needed so herbs are submerged in oil.

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Notes

Make it traditional? Use mortar and pestle to finely mash the herbs and all other ingredients.
Flat Leaf Or Curly Leaf Parsley? Flat-leaf parsley is what you need to use. You can change things up by using a mix of both flat-leaf and curly-leaf parsley. Don’t have parsley, use any herb of your choice or that is readily available to you. See section Variations
Adjust Flavors – Taste the sauce and add more garlic, salt/pepper, red chilies, or whatever you feel is missing according to your taste. 
 
Nutritional Info – Please keep in mind that nutritional information provided is only a rough estimate and can vary greatly based on the products used.

Nutrition

Serving: 0gCalories: 530kcalCarbohydrates: 9gProtein: 3gFat: 55gSaturated Fat: 8gCholesterol: 2mgSodium: 614mgPotassium: 262mgFiber: 2gSugar: 3gVitamin A: 2699IUVitamin C: 49mgCalcium: 78mgIron: 3mg
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  1. Sues says

    July 16, 2018 at 8:54 am

    5 stars
    I LOVE the color of this and definitely want to put it on everything for a delicious flavor boost!

    Reply
    • jyothirajesh says

      July 16, 2018 at 10:36 am

      Thank you Sues!

      Reply
  2. Elaine @ Dishes Delish says

    July 09, 2018 at 9:17 pm

    5 stars
    I can see that this chimichurri sauce is going to be my next favorite sauce! It looks so vibrant and delicious!!

    Reply
    • jyothirajesh says

      July 09, 2018 at 9:26 pm

      Thank you Elaine. SO glad you like it

      Reply
  3. Tina Dawson | Love is in my Tummy says

    July 09, 2018 at 8:25 pm

    5 stars
    I have always, always wanted to make my own chimichurri! Now I know how!

    Reply
    • jyothirajesh says

      July 09, 2018 at 8:38 pm

      I wanted to make my own chimichurri sauce too and once I made I was making it again and again

      Reply
  4. Pam Greer says

    July 09, 2018 at 8:24 pm

    5 stars
    What gorgeous color! I love doing it the old fashioned by hand way too. I’m going to have to try some of your variations!

    Reply
    • jyothirajesh says

      July 09, 2018 at 8:39 pm

      Thank you Pam. Hope you’ll like it as much as we did

      Reply
  5. Chrissy says

    July 09, 2018 at 7:43 pm

    5 stars
    I love chimichurri – it’s so fresh and flavorful!! I have a rack of lamb in the fridge – do you think this version would work well on top of it? YUM!

    Reply
    • jyothirajesh says

      July 09, 2018 at 8:16 pm

      Yes you can definitely put this sauce on lamb, Enjoy! 🙂

      Reply
  6. Priya Shiva says

    July 09, 2018 at 7:19 pm

    5 stars
    such an easy and quick recipe! I’m going to make this chimichurri sauce soon..

    Reply
    • jyothirajesh says

      July 09, 2018 at 8:13 pm

      Thanks dear

      Reply
  7. Jessica Formicola says

    July 09, 2018 at 7:12 pm

    5 stars
    This chimichurri sauce sounds amazing! I love all of the ingredients!

    Reply
    • jyothirajesh says

      July 09, 2018 at 7:15 pm

      Thank you Jessica

      Reply

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