Barbacoa lamb carnitas
- Preparation and cooking time
- Total time
- Easy
- Serves 12
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- 1 small red cabbagefinely shredded
- 1 limejuiced
LAMB BARACOA
- 3 onionsthickly sliced
- 1 bulb garliccloves separated
- 1 tbsp ground cumin
- 1 large or 2 smaller (about 2.5kg in total) lamb shoulder
CHARRED JALAPAÑO SALSA
- 4 jalapeños
- 6 vine tomatoes
- 1 onionquartered
- 2 cloves garlicskin on
GUACAMOLE
- 4 avocadospeeled and stoned
- 1 limejuiced
- 1 small onionfinely chopped
- a bunch corianderfinely chopped
- 1 large tomatofinely chopped
- 1 red chilliseeded and chopped
To serve
- corn tortillaswarm
- hot sauce
- sour cream
- fetacrumbled
- radishessliced
- pickled jalapeños
- lime wedges
- kcal531
- fat38.2g
- saturates16.1g
- carbs7.2g
- sugars5.5g
- fibre4.5g
- protein37.2g
- salt0.8g
Method
step 1
Heat the oven to 160C/fan 140C/gas 3. Put the onions and garlic cloves into a large deep roasting tray. Rub the cumin into the lamb with a big pinch of salt, and add to the tray.
step 2
Pour in enough water to come 4cm up the sides of the tin and cover tightly in foil. Cook for 4-5 hours until the meat is tender, and falling off the bone. Take off the foil for the last hour so the fat gets a chance to crisp a bit.