Barbacoa

11 ingredients
10 steps

Ingredients

  • 1 leg of lamb
  • 5 red tree chilies
  • 1 (14 ounce) can chicken broth
  • 2 cups chickpeas
  • 2 nopal leaves
  • 14 cup salt
  • 2 potatoes
  • 1 cup rice
  • 2 tomatoes
  • 1 onion, sliced
  • 12 cup water

Directions

  1. 1
    Cut the tomatoes by half.
  2. 2
    Cut the potatoes by half.
  3. 3
    In a pressure dale, add the potatoes, tomatoes, onion, broth, water, salt, rice, chilies chickpeas.
  4. 4
    Add the nopal leaves like if you were covering the ingredients, like a cap.
  5. 5
    Then add the lamb leg, it wont fit so cut it in pieces, if you cut it cut it in big pieces.
  6. 6
    Put it on the fire for about 45-60 minutes.
  7. 7
    Check the meat if it is very well cooked.
  8. 8
    In Mexico this is a very traditional plate, so people eat it in corn tortillas, with salsa, and some drops of lime juice.
  9. 9
    After you take the nopal leaves, and the lamb out of there, you'll see that looks like a soup but very greasy, so you can take the grease out with a spoon, and serve it, without the chillies, the tomato, and the potatoes.
  10. 10
    Add some lime juice and enjoy it.

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