Barbacoa Meat recipes - Everyday cooking
These beef cheeks are braised low-and-slow with red wine, vegetables and aromatic herbs. Traditionally a Sunday morning treat, but barbacoa is great any morning.
Braised Beef Cheeks

This has been a hit with everyone that has tried it.
Provided by: Robert Smith
Total time: 350 minutes
Cook time: 330 minutes
Prep time: 20 minutes
Yields: 10 servings
Number of ingredients: 11
Provided by: Robert Smith
Total time: 350 minutes
Cook time: 330 minutes
Prep time: 20 minutes
Yields: 10 servings
Number of ingredients: 11
Ingredients:
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 5 pounds trimmed beef cheeks
- 1 large onion, diced small
- 1 carrot, diced small
- 4 cloves garlic, minced
- 4 cups beef stock
- 1 cup red wine
- ⅓ cup dried porcini mushrooms
- 2 cubes beef bouillon
- 1 teaspoon dried thyme
- 2 bay leaves
Nutrition:
- Calories: 684.8 calories
- Carbohydrate: 6.3 g
- Cholesterol: 160 mg
- Fat: 53.3 g
- Fiber: 1.3 g
- Protein: 39.1 g
- Saturated Fat: 20.5 g
- Sodium: 365.9 mg
- Sugar: 2.5 g
- Preheat oven to 275 degrees F (135 degrees C).
- Heat olive oil in a large Dutch oven over medium-high heat. Add beef in batches and cook until browned, about 4 minutes per side. Add onion and carrot; cook until tender, about 20 minutes. Stir in garlic and cook until fragrant, about 2 minutes.
- Pour beef stock and wine into the Dutch oven; bring to a boil. Stir in porcini mushrooms, bouillon cubes, thyme, and bay leaves. Lay a piece of parchment paper over the surface. Cover with a tight lid.
- Bake in the preheated oven until beef is very tender, 5 to 6 hours.
- Transfer beef to a plate. Discard bay leaves. Blend cooking liquid with an immersion blender to make a smooth sauce. Serve beef with sauce.
Tender Slow Cooked Beef Cheeks
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Slow Cooked Beef Cheeks in Red Wine Sauce
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Barbacoa Meat

Traditionally a Sunday morning treat, but barbacoa is great any morning. Barbacoa can be for the more adventurous, but a real treat none-the-less. I do not recommend substituting the cheek meat with roast, it won't taste right. Barbacoa has a certain gelatinous slide and tack that is the hallmark of the genre. Serve on tortillas with hot sauce and chopped cilantro.
Provided by: streetgang
Total time: 670 minutes
Cook time: 420 minutes
Prep time: 10 minutes
Yields: 12 servings
Number of ingredients: 8
Provided by: streetgang
Total time: 670 minutes
Cook time: 420 minutes
Prep time: 10 minutes
Yields: 12 servings
Number of ingredients: 8
Ingredients:
- 3 pounds beef cheek meat
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- ¼ cup salt
- 2 teaspoons ground cumin
- ground black pepper to taste
- 2 cups water, or more as needed
- ½ yellow onion, halved and thickly sliced
- 3 cloves garlic, chopped
Nutrition:
- Calories: 316.4 calories
- Carbohydrate: 1.3 g
- Cholesterol: 80 mg
- Fat: 26.2 g
- Fiber: 0.2 g
- Protein: 18.2 g
- Saturated Fat: 10.2 g
- Sodium: 77.3 mg
- Sugar: 0.4 g
- Coat beef cheek meat with olive oil. Rub salt, cumin, and pepper into meat. Wrap meat in aluminum foil and refrigerate, 4 hours to overnight.
- Pour water into a slow cooker.
- Arrange onion and garlic around beef cheek meat in the aluminum foil. Wrap foil tightly around meat and vegetables. Add a second sheet of aluminum foil around meat mixture, sealing tightly; place in the slow cooker.
- Cook on Low, adding more water if it has evaporated, until meat is very tender, 7 to 8 hours. Remove foil packet from slow cooker and shred meat using 2 forks.
Slow-cooker beef cheeks in red wine

Create melt in the mouth beef cheeks with this slow cooker recipe from taste member, 'TA6574'. It's well worth the wait.
Provided by: Member recipe
Total time: 520 minutes
Cook time: 500 minutes
Prep time: 20 minutes
Yields: 6 servings
Number of ingredients: 17
Provided by: Member recipe
Total time: 520 minutes
Cook time: 500 minutes
Prep time: 20 minutes
Yields: 6 servings
Number of ingredients: 17
Ingredients:
- 62.50 ml plain flour
- 1.2kg beef cheeks
- 36.40 gm olive oil
- 2 medium brown onions, cut into wedges
- 6 cloves garlic, halved
- 2 medium carrots, coarsely chopped
- 250ml shiraz
- 500ml beef stock
- 32.00 gm brown sugar
- 44.40 gm tomato paste
- 2 bay leaves
- 3 sprigs fresh thyme
- 40g butter
- 6 shiitake mushrooms, halved
- 6 medium swiss brown mushrooms, halved
- 12 small button mushrooms
- Salt, to season
Nutrition:
- Calories: 97.46 calories
- Fat: 16.7 grams fat
- Saturated Fat: 5.9 grams saturated fat
- Carbohydrate: 23.5 grams carbohydrates
- Sugar: 8.6 grams sugar
- Protein: 34.3 grams protein
- Cholesterol: 14.3 milligrams cholesterol
- Sodium: 321.3 milligrams sodium
- Season flour with salt and pepper. Place flour in a large snap-lock bag. Add half the beef. Seal. Shake to coat. Remove from bag, shaking off excess flour. Transfer to plate. Repeat with remaining beef.
- Heat oil in a large frying pan over medium-high heat. Cook beef in batches, for 3 minutes each side or until browned. Transfer to a plate.
- Add onion, garlic and carrots to pan. Cook, stirring, for 3 minutes or until golden. Place half the onion mixture in the bowl of a 5 litre slow-cooker. Top with beef and remaining onion mixture.
- Add wine, stock, sugar, paste and herbs to frying pan. Bring to the boil then pour over beef in slow-cooker.
- Add butter to pan, then mushrooms. Cook, stirring, for 3 minutes or until browned. Add to beef.
- Cover with lid. Turn slow-cooker on low. Cook for 8 hours or until beef is tender. (Alternately, turn slow-cooker on high and cook for 4 hours). Sprinkle with fresh thyme and serve with garlic mash, steamed asparagus and green beans.
Slow Cooker Beef Cheeks

These beef cheeks are braised low-and-slow with red wine, vegetables and aromatic herbs. This dinner melts in your mouth with delicious beefy flavors!
Provided by: TipBuzz
Total time: 240 minutes
Cook time: 225 minutes
Prep time: 15 minutes
Yields: 6 servings
Cuisine: European
Number of ingredients: 12
Provided by: TipBuzz
Total time: 240 minutes
Cook time: 225 minutes
Prep time: 15 minutes
Yields: 6 servings
Cuisine: European
Number of ingredients: 12
Ingredients:
- 3 pounds beef cheeks (4-6 cheeks trimmed of fat (8-12 oz each))
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 cup red wine (full-bodied Cabernet, Merlot or similar (see note))
- 1 cup beef stock
- 1 medium onion (chopped (about 1 cup))
- 3 cloves garlic (minced, or 1 teaspoon garlic powder)
- 1 medium carrot (chopped (about 1 cup))
- 1 celery rib (chopped (about 1 cup))
- 2 medium tomatoes (chopped (about 1 ½ cups), or canned)
- 6 sprigs fresh thyme (or 1 teaspoon dried thyme, or rosemary)
- 1 teaspoon salt (or to taste)
- 1 teaspoon black pepper (freshly ground)
Nutrition:
- Serving Size: 6 oz
- Calories: 584 kcal
- Carbohydrate: 7 g
- Protein: 34 g
- Fat: 43 g
- Saturated Fat: 15 g
- Cholesterol: 134 mg
- Sodium: 412 mg
- Fiber: 1 g
- Sugar: 3 g
- Place the beef cheeks on a work surface and pat dry with paper towels.
- Optional (for extra flavor): Place a skillet over medium-high heat. When hot, add the olive oil and beef cheeks. Fry for 2 minutes until lightly browned. Flip and repeat for the other side.
- Transfer the beef cheeks to the crock pot. Pour the wine and stock into the pan and dislodge off any browned bits with a wooden spoon. Then pour into the crock pot.
- Add all the other ingredients to the crock pot: onions, garlic, carrot, celery, tomatoes, thyme, salt and pepper.
- Seal the lid shut and set the crock pot to cook on Low for 8 hours, or High for 5 hours.
- Discard the thyme sprigs. Optional: pour the cooking liquid into a fat separator to remove accumulated fat.
- Remove the beef cheeks to a plate and drizzle juices on top to serve.