Someone in my local tavern told me about a little Mexican restaurant located inside a liquor store down the street, and he said they had lamb birria. Birria is a soup or stew from Mexico that was originally made with goat, though some think lamb is more authentic. Here they often use beef, but to me that's not birria. At the liquor store they used the shredded lamb meat for tacos, but they served the soup, made from the lamb carcass, on the side. They said I could put the lamb meat into the soup, but then I wouldn't have had tacos. The lamb in the tacos was a little smokey, maybe from the grill, and the meat was topped with raw onion and cilantro, and the tacos were served with lemon wedges and some really good hot sauce on the side. The soup was made with red pepper, but it wasn't really hot, and it came with onion and cilantro just like the tacos, and it also featured garbanzo beans. Each of my two tacos came with two corn tortillas topped with the lamb meat that was a little dry, but together with the soup it was deconstructed birria. The funny thing is that you can eat in the liquor store but you can't drink alcohol there!
Location: Oasis Market, 13175 Palm Drive, Desert Hot Springs, California. Date: April 6, 2024.
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AuthorChef Roland has been a legal resident of seven countries and has travelled in over thirty, documenting food along the way. He currently resides in the desert in Southern California. Categories
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