Hello everybody, it is me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, barbacoa (slow-cooked ox cheeks). It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
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To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook barbacoa (slow-cooked ox cheeks) using 8 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Barbacoa (Slow-cooked ox cheeks):
- Take 1 kg ox cheeks
- Make ready 1 tbsp olive oil
- Get 40 g salt
- Get 1 1/2 teaspoons ground cumin
- Get to taste Freshly ground black pepper
- Prepare 500 ml water
- Make ready 1/2 Spanish onion, thickly sliced
- Make ready 3 garlic cloves, thickly chopped
Wrap foil tightly around meat and vegetables. See recipes for Barbacoa (Slow-cooked ox cheeks), Barbacoa for tacos too. If you've never tried beef cheek before then you are in for a treat! The meat is so rich and tender.
Steps to make Barbacoa (Slow-cooked ox cheeks):
- Coat the ox cheeks with olive oil. Rub salt, cumin and pepper into meat. Wrap in foil and refrigerate for at least 4 hours, preferably overnight.
- Pour water into a slow cooker or crockpot.
- Arrange the onion and garlic around the cheeks in the foil. Then wrap foil tightly around meat and vegetables. Add a second sheet of foil around meat mixture, sealing tightly; place in the slow cooker or crockpot.
- Cook on Low, adding more water if it evaporates, until meat is very tender, 7 to 8 hours in slow cooker/3/4 hours in crockpot. Remove foil packet from slow cooker and shred meat using 2 forks.
If you've never tried beef cheek before then you are in for a treat! The meat is so rich and tender. The flavor is similar to beef roast (not liver or other organs) so I know you will like it. Cheek meat contains a lot of fat which breaks down when cooking. This serves to both flavor the meat and also tenderize it.
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