Sandwich Counter · Breaded Cutlet
Milanesa al Pan
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The breaded cutlet at its core traces directly to Milan's 'cotoletta,' brought over by Italian immigrants and then Argentinized into a sandwich Milan itself never invented.
A thin, breaded beef or chicken cutlet fried crisp and stuffed into a crusty roll with lettuce and tomato, sold at sandwich counters and kiosks across Buenos Aires at all hours. Many spots offer it 'completa,' piled with ham, cheese, and egg.
Why it's made this way: Buenos Aires absorbed massive Italian immigration in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and the milanesa sandwich became the city's own quick-eat evolution of that inherited cutlet.
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