Slow-cooked beef barbacoa tacos

A Mexican dinner for the galley that fine in moderate seas, can be made ahead and frozen, about 115 min hands-on.

  • Dinner
  • Mexican
  • ⏱ 115 min
  • 🌊 Sea tolerance 3/5
  • 🌶 Mild (on the side)
  • kosher
  • halal

Ingredients

For 4 servings (one normal-appetite adult each). Per serving in brackets.

  • Beef stewing chunks560 g (140 g)
  • Onion (brown/yellow)160 g (≈ 1.5 onions) (40 g)
  • Garlic (bulb)16 g (≈ 0.5 bulb) (4 g)
  • Ground cumin4 g (1 g)
  • Smoked paprika4 g (1 g)
  • Chili flakes1.2 g (0.3 g)
  • Canned chopped tomatoes240 g (60 g)
  • Lime40 g (≈ 0.5 lime) (10 g)
  • Wheat tortillas392 g (≈ 8 tortillas) (98 g (≈ 2 tortillas))
  • Coriander / cilantro12 g (3 g)

Method

  1. Brown the beef 6 minutes; add onion, garlic and spices for 2 minutes.
  2. Add tomatoes and 150 ml water per serving; lid on, simmer 1½ hours until it shreds.
  3. Shred with two forks, squeeze over lime and pile into warm tortillas with coriander.

In the galley

  • Fine in moderate seas — 3/5 for sea tolerance.
  • Stow the main ingredients in the fridge.
  • Make ahead: cook in port and freeze in portions.
  • Contains: Gluten — always check the labels of what you buy.

Per serving

💪 Protein-packed

kcal
595
protein
37 g
fat
25 g
carbs
58 g
sugar
7 g
fibre
6 g

From USDA FoodData Central, raw weights — a planning guide, not a label; a few values use a close stand-in.

Nutrition per serving: USDA FoodData Central — SR Legacy (U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service), weighted by each ingredient's grams — a planning guide, not a label. Quantities follow standard portion sizes; this recipe hasn't been tested in a real galley yet. How we make recipes

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