Salpicón Mexicano de Res (Mexican Beef Salpicon)

I have been craving Salpicón since I was in México, it is my second favourite dish after my mum’s sopes, so today I thought that even though I am still jetlag, I was going to make it, so I went to get the meat at my local organic butcher, Grahams, who sells amazing meats, I came back home, got myself into the kitchen and didn’t stop until was done.

Salpicon is quite a laborious dish to make, but if you organise yourself it will take you less than an hour, it is worth the effort because when it’s done, it tastes wow!

Apparently I read that Salpicon comes from a Spanish dish, which is made with seafood, in Mexico is very common to find it with shredded beef, the other ingredients are the one that change depending on how each family prepares it.

So here I am sharing my family’s Salpicon dish, actually it is kind of my sister’s recipe, she is the queen of the Salpicón. Well let’s start with the recipe, I hope you enjoy it as much as we do in my family.

Serves 4

Prep 30 min

Cook 50 min approx

Ingredients

For the meat

300 gr beef skirt
1 piece of beef bone
1 large tomato cut in half
½ onion peeled
1 garlic clove peeled
1 tablespoon salt
Water

Vegetables

½ head shredded lettuce
½onion cut in thin julienned
2 medium carrots peeled and julienned
1 large courgette julienned
1 potatoe peeled and julienned
1 green pepper roasted on the hob, skin and seeds off and cut in strings

Extra

3 tablespoon light soy sauce

To garnish

Avocado slices
Fresh cheese crumble (feta or anari)
Spicy salsa
Tortilla chips or tostadas

Method

Cook the meat with the tomato, onion, garlic, salt and bone for around 25 min or until to prick the meat and the fork goes right through easily and the juices come out clear. Then take the meat out of the broth and leave aside to cool down then shred it.

Have all the vegetables cut. Take the bone, tomato, onion and garlic out and cook th carrots in the broth for 5 min at medium heat, then do the same with the courgettes and potatoes.

Mix with your hands all the ingredients on a big salad bowl and add the soy sauce and mix again.

Enjoy it with some avocado, fresh cheese, spicy salsa and tortilla chips.

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