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I’ve been making birria beef a few times a year and it’s been a great addition to our dinner rotations. It takes about 20 hours all in to make it but most of that is passive cooking time.

I’ll usually buy 2 beef tri tips from Costco, season them with salt and pepper and smoke them for 8 hours on the lowest possible temp. This is to get the smoky flavour and not for cooking. After that I put them both in the slow cooker with chicken stock, adobo chilies, guajillo peppers, bay leaves, cloves and a few other odds and sods. They get slow cooked for 10+ hours until the meat is shredding consistency.

Then I take corn tortillas and dip them in the stew and fry them, the frying is key and delicious. Top the beef off with your favourite taco toppings and enjoy. It’s a long process but you make a ton of food and lots of leftovers.