barbacoa
Noun
Meaning
barbacoa (uncountable)
Meat slow-cooked over an open fire, characteristic of Latin American cuisine.
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Examples
Chicken tinga enchiladas, shrimp and barbacoa burritos with avocado crema, all good choices and all available from Quetzally.
The fresh salad, burritos, quesadillas, and taco bowls are all next-level, but if you’re set on tacos, order the barbacoa and the shrimp.
Personally I prefer seafood and pork, but lamb completists should try the traditional breakfast of lamb barbacoa from Hidalgo at a makeshift restaurant open only on weekends.
The tacos are consistently scrumptious and feature the usual suspects of barbacoa, pollo, al pastor, carnitas, and carne asada topped with the cilantro-onion dynamic duo plus radishes for texture and crunch.
This urban-contemporary eatery offers a wide variety of dishes, from beef barbacoa nachos to ahi poke lettuce wraps.
They don’t like the puro combination of barbacoa and Big Red.