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Chipotle Beef Barbacoa Tacos

Chuck braised with chipotle and lime until shreddable, piled into warm corn tortillas.

Chipotle Beef Barbacoa Tacos, plated and ready to serve
Serves
4
Total time
195 min
Cost per serving (United States)
$12.68

Ingredients

  • 2 1/4 lb beef chuck roast
  • 2 tbsp vegetable oil
  • 1 yellow onions
  • 5 clove garlic
  • 3 oz chipotle peppers in adobo
  • 1 tbsp ground cumin
  • 2 tsp dried oregano
  • 2 cup beef broth
  • 2 lime
  • 12 corn tortillas
  • 1 red onion
  • 1/2 bunch cilantro(optional)

Method

  1. Heat the oven to 325F. Cut the chuck into large chunks, salt them, and brown in the oil in a Dutch oven.

  2. Add the quartered yellow onion, garlic, chipotles in adobo, cumin, oregano and broth.

  3. Cover and braise in the oven 3 hours, until the beef shreds under a fork.

  4. Shred the meat in the pot and stir it through the sauce. Add the juice of one lime and salt to taste.

  5. Warm the corn tortillas in a dry pan until pliable.

  6. Serve with finely diced red onion, cilantro and the remaining lime cut into wedges.

What this costs, country by country

Each figure is the ingredients for the full recipe at prices read in that country’s own shops, in its own currency. Nothing here is converted from dollars.

The cost of this recipe in 11 countries, each in its own currency, with how many of the 11 ingredients we could price in each. Figures are not converted between currencies, so the rows cannot be ranked against each other.
CountryWhole recipePer servingPriced from
United Kingdom£42.68£10.6711 of 11 ingredients
Australia$88.83$22.2111 of 11 ingredients
United States$50.70$12.6810 of 11 ingredients
Canada$156.46$39.1210 of 11 ingredients
Austria€ 48,47€ 12,1210 of 11 ingredients
New Zealand$125.24$31.319 of 11 ingredients
Mexico$1,453.64$363.419 of 11 ingredients
Germany25,09 €6,27 €8 of 11 ingredients
Greece44,82 €*11,21 €7 of 11 ingredients
Egypt‏٧٦٨٫٨٥ ج.م.‏*‏١٩٢٫٢١ ج.م.‏7 of 11 ingredients
Spain13,60 €*3,40 €7 of 11 ingredients

* We have read fewer than seven in ten of these ingredients in that country, so the total is a partial figure and the real one is higher.

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