Barbacoa de Borrego

Lamb Barbacoa

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    6 to 8

    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
Oaxaca: Home Cooking from the Heart of Mexico

By Bricia Lopez and Javier Cabral

Published 2019

  • About

Barbacoa de Borrego is eaten during a lot of festivities in Oaxaca. It is always served family style at parties so you can eat as much as you can handle. My fondest memory of eating barbacoa was during a get-together with friends in an agave field recently. We cooked a whole lamb in a pit underground, had live music, everybody showed up, and there was free-flowing mezcal for everyone. It was one of the most beautiful, most perfect days of my life, because what else do you need other