What Are Beef Barbacoa Tacos?
Beef Barbacoa are South Texas tacos: beef, steamed or pit-cooked overnight, on corn tortillas.
Beef Barbacoa (Barbacoa de Res) is a meat taco from South Texas, United States. The filling is beef, specifically cheek meat (cabeza), steamed or pit-cooked overnight.
It is served on corn tortillas, usually with onion, cilantro, salsa, lime. In the US it turns up most in San Antonio, Rio Grande Valley.
The Texas weekend-morning tradition, sold by the pound.
Beef Barbacoa (Barbacoa de Res) are South Texas tacos made with cheek meat (cabeza), steamed or pit-cooked overnight, served on corn tortillas.
The Texas weekend-morning tradition, sold by the pound
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