How to Make Beef Birria
If you’ve ever made a braised beef dish, this whole process will be mostly familiar. Here’s how to make beef birria:
- Prepare the dried chiles. Seed, toast, and soak the chiles. It sounds like a whole thing, but it only takes about 20 minutes. Detailed how-to is in the recipe at the bottom of the page.
- Brown the beef. Cook it in batches if need be, and make sure you get a nice browning on all sides. Set it aside, or just go ahead and put it right into your Dutch oven.
- Make the birria sauce / broth base! There should be some fat and oil left in the pan from searing the beef—that’s a good thing! Use it to cook the onion wedges a bit, then add garlic, cinnamon, oregano, cumin, bay leaves, and ginger. After a minute or two, pour in the beef stock and vinegar.
- Time to blend! Pour the onion, broth and spice mixture into a blender, and add the seeded, soaked and drained chiles. Blend! Voila! You’ve made the world's best braising liquid.
- Pour your chile sauce over all of the beef into a Dutch oven, and cook for about 3 to 3.5 hours, until the meat is falling apart.
How To Serve Beef Birria
There’s so much you can do with beef birria! Here are some ideas to get you started:
- Serve it as a hearty, rich stew in bowls, garnished with chopped onion and cilantro with warm tortillas on the side.
- As a filling for quesadillas.
- Or try our birria tacos!
Please continue to the next page (>) for the full list of ingredients and complete cooking instructions. Enjoy this meal!
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