Gas-Grilled Argentine Steaks with Chimichurri Sauce

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated July/August 2010

With Argentine beef and a wood fire, cooking churrasco in the backyard would be easy. We were stuck with American supermarket steaks and a Weber kettle.

SERVES 6 to 8

TIME 1¼ hours, plus 1 hour resting and 30 minutes freezing

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WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

We chose well-marbled strip steak for our gas-grilled Argentine steak recipe because of its beefy flavor and moist interior. For the essential wood-smoke flavor, we nestled a few pieces of unsoaked wood chunks on an aluminum pie plate set o...

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