Lamb Birria

Mexican Lamb Stew

Preparation info
  • Serves

    4-6

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
What to Eat Now (Autumn & Winter)

By Valentine Warner

Published 2008

  • About

In parts of Mexico it can get very cold. The backbone to Lamb Birria is a combination of dried chillies, which produces a fabulous slow burn that will creep out to your extremities, warming them with a very pleasant heat. Although many varieties of dried chilli are available in a few supermarkets and specialist shops in the UK, obtaining them still involves a certain amount of tapping about on the internet. Proper Mexican food is only just beginning to flash its gold tooth in this country,