Barbacoa Meat

Ingredients

• Servings: 12
• 3 pounds beef cheek meat
• 1 tablespoon olive oil
• 1/4 cup salt
• 2 teaspoons ground cumin
• ground black pepper to taste
• 2 cups water, or more as needed
• 1/2 yellow onion, halved and thickly sliced
• 3 cloves garlic, chopped

Recipe

Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 7 hrs

Ready Time: 11 hrs 10 mins


• 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.