Tacos de Suadero

Name: Tacos de Suadero
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Mexican
Ingredients: 1kg beef suadero (thin flank or brisket); 500g lard or beef fat; 1 onion and 4 garlic cloves; Small corn tortillas; Chopped onion and coriander; Salsa roja or salsa verde

Tacos de suadero/TAH-kohs deh swah-DEH-roh/

Also known as: Suadero Tacos, Mexico City Beef Tacos

About this dish

Soft beef brisket slowly confited in its own fat, then chopped and crisped, served in small corn tortillas.

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Ingredients

🥩1kg beef suadero (thin flank or brisket)

🫗500g lard or beef fat

🧅1 onion and 4 garlic cloves

🌮Small corn tortillas

🌿Chopped onion and coriander

🌶️Salsa roja or salsa verde

Method

Serves 4

Simmer the beef in the lard with onion, garlic and salt on low heat for about 2 hours until tender.

Lift out the meat and chop it finely.

Crisp the chopped meat on a hot griddle.

Dip the tortillas in the fat and warm them on the griddle.

Fill with the meat and top with onion, coriander and salsa.

✓ What Makes it Authentic

Suadero tacos are a Mexico City street classic, cooked in a domed pan (comal de choricera) alongside longaniza.

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