Authentic Mexican Barbacoa

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Delicious and easy recipe: mexican barbacoa for tacos!

Prep Time15

Cook Time1

Marinated (optional)8

Course: Main Course

Cuisine: Mexican

Keyword: barbacoa

Servings: people

Calories: 134kcal

Start by placing the guajillo and red chili on a hot griddle. let them toast for about 3 seconds on each side. If you can smell them you are late! this need to be very fast they burn really easily. If they burn use new ones.
Toasting the chiles helps to bring out certain oils that change the chili flavor and make it tastier.
On the same griddle toast the garlic and onion or you can just air fry them for a couple of minutes.
Put all the toasted ingredients in the blender together with 1 tsp of oregano ½ tsp of cumin, ½ tbsp of salt, 6 black peppercorns, and 3 bay leaves.
Add 1 cup of water and blend everything very well.
With the sauce, you created marinate the meat for one night in the refrigerator. If you don’t have time, don’t worry, I have prepared it without marinating and it is still very tender and delicious, so if you marinate it, it will be gourmet (almost like barbacoa de Hoyo)
Put the meat in the Instant Pot together with the marinade and activate the Meat / Stew button in your Instant Pot and let it cook.
Once it is finished and you can open the pot, let the meat cool a little and crumble it. There you have your healthy barbacoa… do you want to know the secret of the barbacoa street tacos? They actually fry the beef!
Drop some oil in the pan and fry the shredded beef. There you have the most amazing and traditional barbacoa homemade by yourself! Awesome! need some help to ensemble the barbacoa tacos? check out this post!

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