Birria Tacos
Aug 22, 2025 01:43 AM
Step up your next taco night with this ultimate guide to the best homemade tacos ever.
Birria tacos are so good and so easy you’ll be making them every week. They’re juicy, cheesy, and incredibly flavorful. The closest thing you can get to making taqueria level tacos at home.
Recently I’ve been making all our dinners while my husband and I chat and watch youtube each night, and in our house that always means taco nights. While my go-to tacos are al pastor, carnitas, carne adovada, barbacoa, and carne asada, my husband asked to mix things up a bit with something a little more modern, and suggested birria tacos. It was so good I think this just jumped to the top of my list for all of our future taco nights.
Birria is traditionally a spicy and super savory Mexican beef or goat stew that’s slow cooked until the meat is tender and fall-apart juicy and delicious. Someone had the amazing idea to stuff this meaty goodness into a taco shell, and then dip the whole thing into the stew and fry it up. These birria tacos blew up after that, and the rest is history.
Ingredients:
- 1.5 lb beef shank
- 1 lb sirloin or other roast/steak
Marinade
- 3 dried guajillo peppers see notes
- 1 can chipotle peppers in adobo
- 1/4 cup vinegar
- 1/2 cup crushed tomatoes
- 5 cloves garlic
- 1 tsp dried oregano
- 1/2 tsp smoked paprika
- 1 tsp cumin
Stew
- 1 medium onion chopped
- 1 cinnamon stick
- 2 bay leaves
- 6 whole cloves
- chicken stock to cover sodium free, about 1 quart
Tacos
- 4" corn or flour tortillas as needed, 12-16
- 1 medium onion chopped, optional
- 1 bunch cilantro chopped, optional
- 1 cup mexican cheese blend grated, optional
Prep Time:
20 minutes
Cook Time:
100 minutes
Total Time:
120 minutes
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