Ingredients:
1 Cabeza,
Beef head
3 heads garlic
4 Onions
2 bn Cilantro
Recipe Instructions:
Corn or flour tortillas Before you actually get the
cabeza (beef head), understand that it won't look very nice -in fact
it will look pretty gruesome. Therefore, I suggest purchasing the
thing the day you cook it. In the Rio Grande Valley, barbacoa de
cabeza is traditionally eaten on Sunday mornings. Clean the cabeza,
removing eyes, ears, etc. Discard the tongue. Leaving it will impart
an odd taste to the meat. Wrap the cabeza in a paper sack, along
with onions, garlic, and cilantro. Wrap THAT in burlap. Dig a hole 2
feet deep and build a driftwood fire in it. Wait until the fire goes
to coals, then cover them with ashes, followed by the cabeza, then
about 2 inches of dry dirt or sand. Fill up the hole. Add 6 to 8
inches of dirt or sand over it. Build a fire on top of the ground.
Use slow-burining wood such as oak or mesquite. Leave the cabeza in
the hole 12 to 18 hours. For example, if you begin cooking it at 400 p.m.,
it should be ready by the next morning. Serve with tortillas. Serves
one vanload. If you want to try barbacoa de cabeza at homne, try
wrapping the cabeza in foil and bakinng it in an Oven or over a
charcoal grill. Using foil in place of the paper bag keeps the
cabeza slightly moister while
cooking