Barbacoa Meat

Name: Barbacoa Meat
Total time: 670
Yield: 12
Ingredients: 3 pounds beef cheek meat; 1 tablespoon olive oil; 0.25 cup salt; 2 teaspoons ground cumin; ground black pepper to taste; 2 cups water, or more as needed; 0.5 yellow onion, halved and thickly sliced; 3 cloves garlic, chopped

Recipe by streetgang from allrecipes.com

Dinner 11 Hr. 10 Mins.

Ingredients

12 servings

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3 pounds beef cheek meat
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1 tablespoon olive oil
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0.25 cup salt
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2 teaspoons ground cumin

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ground black pepper to taste
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2 cups water, or more as needed
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0.5 yellow onion, halved and thickly sliced
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3 cloves garlic, chopped

Instructions

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.