# Barbacoa/Birria Tacos

A flavorful meat dish, slow-cooked until falling apart, served with cheese, onion, and coriander in a taco, and dipped in broth.

- Total time: 240 min
- Cuisine: Mexican
- Category: Soup
- Language: en

## Ingredients

- huge chunkers of meat
- 1 whole thing beef stock
- 1 whole thing bone broth
- water
- carrots
- chili
- onion
- garlic
- bay leaves
- thyme
- 2 tomatoes
- more leaves
- chili flake
- cumin
- cloves
- broth
- cheese
- onion
- coriander
- lime

## Instructions

1. Brown the meat chunks.
2. Add beef stock, bone broth, and water.
3. Add carrots, chili, onion, garlic, bay leaves, and thyme.
4. Leave to cook for 1 hour.
5. Put all the cooked vegetables into a blender.
6. Add two tomatoes, more leaves, chili flake, cumin, cloves, and some of the broth to the blender.
7. Blend everything until smooth.
8. Strain the blended mixture to remove unwanted solids.
9. Leave the meat to cook for another 3 hours, topping up water every hour.
10. Dip the meat in broth, then put it on some more broth.
11. Add cheese, onion, and coriander to the dish.
12. Sizzle the dish.
13. Add lime.
14. Dip them in (presumably tacos or tortillas).

## Equipment

- platter
- blender
- strainer

## Tips

- Top up water every hour during the 3-hour cooking period.

## Source

- Original video: https://youtube.com/shorts/ASy_N3a-1kE?si=oDv4MB7jw1tw_TW-
- Recipe page: https://www.cliprecipe.com/recipe/9202b699-8097-4490-92a0-d3641d9e7a36
- Extracted: 2026-04-22

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