Today on The Stay At Home Chef
I'm showing you how to make
Instant Pot Mexican Beef Barbacoa
If you haven't heard of Instant Pot, well, you're going to
learn all about it today.
All it really is
is an electric pressure cooker
Now, I don't know about you, but I've heard several horror
stories about cooking with pressure cookers on the stove
it involves explosions and danger factors
Well, with an electric pressure cooker they've taken some
of the danger factor right out of it
So now pressure cookers are available to pretty much
anyone without the fear of actually using them
Now today I'm going to show you how to make
a Mexican Beef Barbacoa in it
Don't worry, if you don't have an Instant Pot yet
I'll also include some instructions to do it on the stove
or in a slow cooker in the video description.
We're going to start out by making our sauce
You'll need some dried ancho and guajillo peppers
They're pretty common and you should be able to find them
in the Hispanic section of your supermarket
What you'll want to do with these dried peppers
is to rehydrate them
Do that by simply placing them into a jar or bowl
with some water and just let them sit for a few hours
After they've softened up
You can see this is a lot more soft
What you want to do is remove the stem and the seeds
from the inside of the pod
These peppers are actually really easy to work with
and the seeds are really easy to get out
Once you have 2 ancho peppers and 2 guajillo peppers
simply put them into a blender or into a food processor
We're also going to add in 1 chipotle pepper
and those are canned in adobo sauce
and you just need 1 pepper from the can
Next we're going to add in
3 crushed garlic cloves
1 tablespoon of brown sugar
1 tablespoon of cider vinegar
whoops
1 teaspoon of salt
1 teaspoon of oregano
and 1/4 teaspoon of cinnamon
Then we'll pop the lid on
and blend it up
Once the peppers start to break up we're going to add in
a little it of olive oil
and some water to thing it out
Put the lid back on and blend until it's smooth
Once your sauce is done set it aside
and we're going to work on our meat
I have a 3 pound beef chuck roast here
and I'm going to season it with salt and pepper
Now historically barbacoa has been made using
lamb, goat, and if you're going to use beef you'd use
parts of the head of the cow like beef cheeks
Today I'm going to stick with the chuck roast
Next it's time to bust out our instant pot
I'm going to start by putting it on the sauté setting
This will allow us to sear our beef directly in the Instant Pot
It's definitely something a slow cooker can't do
You want to add in 1 tablespoon or 2 of olive oil
Let that heat up for a second
And then add in your roast and sear it on the bottom
You can hear it searing and sizzling in there
so give it a few minutes and then flip it over
and sear the other side
Once your beef is seared pour in the sauce that
you made in the blender
Then we're going to put the lid on
And we're going to cancel that sauté setting and instead
we're going to transfer it to the meat and stew setting
Now if you wanted to cook this in the slow cooker or in the oven
you'd simply sear the beef on the stove top
Now with your Instant Pot there's one thing that you need to know
It builds up a lot of pressure and steam and you do have
a pressure release valve
It's right here at the back and at the beginning
it's very loose.
That's exactly how it's supposed to be
Now one side is labeled venting and the other is sealing
You want to make sure it's just sitting on that sealing route
This will tighten up as it cooks
which you'll see here in just a second
This will take 70 minutes to cook your beef until
it's easily shredded with a fork
Once the time is up you'll see that this knob isn't so loose anymore
and you'll gently hit it over and let the steam escape
Once all of the steam has released
you can safely remove the lid and shred your meat with some forks
I like to serve my barbacoa up on some corn tortillas
with a little bit of onion and fresh cilantro
and maybe even a little bit of jalapeno
Thanks for watching!
You can find the full written recipe as well as instructions
for the slow cooker or the oven in the video description
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