Slow Cooker Barbacoa Short Rib Tacos; what a perfect way to put a twist on an old classic recipe of regular tacos!
Slow Cooker Beef Short Ribs full of barbacoa flavours, with meat so tender it falls off the bone before being stuffed into Taco’s and served with sliced Avocados. The recipe include slow cooker, pressure cooker AND oven cooking methods! And GOOD NEWS: Nutritional labels are now being included for recipes situated underneath the recipe box! Tacos are an easy, go to dish, cooked on the reg’ in my house. And since they’re so versatile, it’s no secret I’ve been experimenting with different flavours and ways to eat tacos, just look at my Korean Bulgogi Bbq Beef Tacos, Oven Baked Barbecue Chicken Pizza Tacos, even the Easy Taco Salad, or Loaded Taco Grilled Cheese! But sometimes a classic slow cooked, beautifully flavoured meat, stuffed into a crispy tortilla just hits the spot.
BARBACOA
Let’s talk Barbacoa. Even though barbacoa translates to barbecue, traditional Mexican barbacoa meat is steamed, smoked or slow-cooked over an open fire, or more traditionally, in a hole dug in the ground covered with Maguey (Agave) plant leaves, resulting in a moist and flavourful meat, often served with onions and cilantro (coriander to those of us on the other side of the world).
Barbacoa is usually cooked with beef cheeks, or parts from the head of beef, most traditionally the whole head of the cow, and usually served for breakfast after the head has smoked over-night in a pit dug in the ground. Well, I don’t have a pit in my backyard, and I don’t have access to maguey leaves……or a cow’s head? Plus, I don’t think my husband would appreciate me digging a hole for the sake of this recipe. Or seeing a cows head. So slow cooker and short ribs it is!
HOW TO MAKE SLOW COOKER BARBACOA TACOS
You can serve these with anything: sour cream, plain yoghurt, tomatoes, lettuce, or whatever your stomach wants. I chose the traditional cilantro and onion, with the addition of creamy avocado, which tastes incredible with the smokey spice of the peppers.
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