Fiesta Beef Cheek Barbacoa with Spicy Shrimp Surf & Turf Taco Plate
Ingredients
Blue Corn Tortillas
Barbacoa-
1 lb. Beef Cheek
1 tbsp Garlic
Bolner’s Fiesta Chili Ancho
Shrimp-
1 lb. Shrimp, peeled & deveined
Bolner’s Fiesta Crushed Red Pepper
Garlic
Rice-
3 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
1 cup long grain white rice
2 cups chicken stock
1 cup roughly chopped parsley
1/2 cup roughly chopped cilantro
2 large poblano chiles
2 Tbsp chopped onion
1 garlic clove, peeled, roughly chopped
Additional-
Cilantro
Green Onion
Mexican Crème
Tomato
Red Onion
White Onion
Jalapeño
Avocado
Chili Arbol
12 oz Diced Tomatoes
Lime
Salt
Pepper
Directions
Heat oven to 375 degrees
Prepare Barbacoa. Place beef cheek, garlic and diced Bolner’s Fiesta Chili Ancho into a foil packet. Close foil packet tightly and place in oven and cook for 90 minutes, until beef cheek becomes tender and is able to be pulled apart.
Prepare Green Rice. Place rice in pan with olive oil and toast rice. Puree ¾ cup chicken stock and all other rice ingredients until smooth. Stir in pureed ingredients with rice. Add remaining chicken stock and simmer until rice is done.
Prepare Shrimp. In a skillet lightly coated with olive oil, add 1 tbsp chopped garlic, shrimp and 1 tbsp Bolner’s Fiesta Crushed Red Pepper and sauté until shrimp are opaque and cooked through.
Prepare Pico De Gallo. Combine one diced red onion, 1 cup diced jalapenos, ½ cup diced cilantro, 4 tbsp olive oil and juice from one lime. Season with salt and pepper and mix ingredients together thoroughly.
Prepare Salsa Norteno- Combine 12 oz diced tomato, 1 cup Chili Arbol, ½ cup diced white onion, 1 garlic clove, 1 tbsp Bolner’s Fiesta Crushed Red Pepper. Blend ingredients until smooth and refrigerate until ready to be used.
Assemble tacos on warm blue corn tortillas adding barbacoa, Mexican crème, Pico de Gallo, slice of avocado and diced green onion. Add a squeeze of lime juice to each taco. Plate green rice and rest shrimp along bed of rice. Drizzle Shrimp with Salsa Norteno. Garnish plate with freshly chopped cilantro.
Comer con gusto!
