What is Cabeza?
The Spanish word for the head, Cabeza is also a Mexican street meal that allows the customer to select which part of the animal's head to use as meat for its tacos. Available on taquerias and in street trucks across the country and in several places abroad, tacos de Cabeza may include a number of parts from the face of cows or goats that have been steamed intact overnight or cooked slowly in the furnace to be possible. These undesirable proteins are usually shredded and masked in traditional taco clothing: on the outside of hard corn or tortilla with soft flour, with ingredients such as chopped onions, chily and coriander on the inside. A number of obvious Mexican salsa will light up to the top.
As can be assumed, Cabeza is one of the cheaper options TACO. But many in Mexico still consider this a delicacy. According to the Mex Connect website, these tacos are particularly popular in multiple depressed areasPolitan Mexico City. They are also well received in the regions of Baijo and Sonora, where people most often consume them for breakfast.
parts like brains, tongue, faces, lips and even eyes are regularly offered individually. Usually, Medley, called Surrtido , is also offered. Depending on the part, it can be shredded, chopped or left intact to look back at you - in the case of eyeballs. When ordered in a formal restaurant, Cabeza is often brought to the table on the plate and guests are encouraged to taste the parts they would like to try.
by l.a. Weekly food writer Farid, a well -known culinary instructor, goat's brains that sample, tasted like mushy sweet breads, while eyeballs were like chewing on a giant tendon. It is usual to undress a little from each part for taco, including a small tongue, some crispy slipping of tender meat from KOlem mouth and even some brains and oily faces on a series of flavors in a single taco.
The recipe for tacos de Cabeza does not include overnight. Instead, he wipes his head in and out, with coriander, cumin, salt and pepper, and then cooks them on a baking tray in the oven at 350 ° F (about 177 ° C). They keep their heads on one face, they are regularly turned to cook evenly, which lasts up to three and a half hours. For a cow's head, even more time is needed to cook the meat.