Café Pasqual's Barbacoa

Name: Café Pasqual's Barbacoa
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 10
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 85 grams fresh jalapeño chilies (about 4 total), rinsed, stemmed, seeded, and quartered lengthwise; 2 dried bay leaves; 2 teaspoons dried thyme; 237 milliliters fat-skimmed chicken broth; 4 cloves garlic, peeled and minced; 2 teaspoons ground cumin; 1 teaspoons coarse-ground pepper; 118 milliliters lime juice; 454 grams onions, peeled and diced; 1 teaspoon dried Mexican or regular oregano; 2 kilograms boned, tied beef chuck or boned pork shoulder or butt; 1 teaspoon About salt; 454 grams firm-ripe tomatoes, rinsed, cored, and chopped; 2 Tbsps white wine vinegar

Café Pasqual's Barbacoa might be just the main course you are searching for. This recipe serves 10. One serving contains 203 calories, 23g of protein, and 8g of fat. This recipe covers 18% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. If you have regular oregano, salt, wine vinegar, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. To use up the white wine vinegar you could follow this main course with the Red Velvet Cake as a dessert. It is a good option if you're following a gluten free, dairy free, and primal diet.

Instructions

In a 9- by 13-inch pan, mix onions, tomatoes, garlic, jalapeos, bay leaves, chicken broth, lime juice, vinegar, thyme, cumin, oregano, 1 teaspoon salt, and pepper. Rinse meat, place in pan, and turn to coat. Cover and chill at least 3 hours or up to 1 day, turning meat occasionally. Seal pan with foil.

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Chicken Broth

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Onion

Pepper

Cumin

Thyme

Meat

Salt

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Aluminum Foil

Frying Pan

Bake in a 300 oven until meat is tender enough to pull apart easily, 4 to 5 hours. Supporting with 2 slotted spoons, transfer meat to a platter.

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Meat

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Pour pan juices through a strainer into a 12-inch frying pan or a 5- to 6-quart pan (discard bay leaves; reserve remaining vegetable mixture); skim and discard fat. Boil juices over high heat until reduced to 1 cup, 25 to 30 minutes.

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Bay Leaves

Vegetable

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Sieve

When meat is cool enough to handle, in about 10 minutes, discard string. Use 2 forks or your fingers to pull meat into shreds; discard fat and connective tissue.

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Meat

Add meat and reserved vegetable mixture to pan with juices. Stir occasionally over medium heat until steaming, about 5 minutes. Season to taste with salt.

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Vegetable

Meat

Salt

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