These easy Barbacoa Beef Bowls are a perfect way to use up leftovers and avoid the restaurant lines by making this fresh and tasty meal at home!
One thing you should know about me is that when I saw I’m going to do something, I do it.
Most of the time.
For example, when I posted my recipe for Crockpot Barbacoa Beef, I said that I would share my recipe for Barbacoa Beef Bowls with you in just a few days.
Well, here we are, a few days later, and here is my awesome Beef Barbacoa Bowl recipe!
If you are wondering, What to serve with barbacoa beef? Serve it over rice with whatever fresh veggies you like. You can’t go wrong with corn, black beans, green onions, tomatoes, avocados and some cilantro! It also pairs well with this Brazilian cheese bread recipe.
Save some time with this great 3-in-1 Avocado peeler, slicer and pitter tool.
You can even skip the rice and serve it over your favorite salad greens to make a delicious beef barbacoa salad!
Aren’t these Barbacoa Beef Bowls just a thing of beauty? I don’t know why, but I love when my food is like a rainbow of colors and awesomeness. Wow, that might be the best simile I’ve ever written.
I COULD have just haphazardly tossed all of these ingredients together into a bowl and went to town on it, but it is much more fun to carefully arrange each element in a perfect circle of joy and contentment.
Then you get to use your fork to destroy all of the perfection, mash it all up together, and shovel it into your mouth.
Oh, HECK yes.
Barbacoa Beef Bowls Recipe
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Ingredients
- 4 cups cooked white rice - warmed
- Juice of 1 lime
- 2 cups Barbacoa Beef - warmed
- 2 cups halved cherry or grape tomatoes
- 1 14 ounce can low sodium black beans, drained and rinsed
- 1 cup frozen corn kernels - thawed
- 1/2 cup chopped green onion
- 1 large avocado - pitted and diced
- 4 tablespoons chopped cilantro leaves
Instructions
- In a large bowl, toss together the warm rice and fresh lime juice. Divide evenly among four serving bowls.
- Into each bowl, place ½ cup beef, ½ cup tomatoes, ¼ of the beans, ¼ cup corn, ⅛ cup green onion, and ¼ of the avocado.
- Garnish each bowl with a tablespoon of chopped cilantro leaves.
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Of course kick-butt is an adjective, as is bat-poop i.e. “I met this woman today who was completely bat-poop crazy” (sticking to your no swearing policy). Thanks for the recipes & your blog.
I’m so glad you understand! 😉
We loved these! Super loved them!
Funny you say that about the expletives…I haven’t read a lot but if you follow Thug Kitchen on Facebook it’s hilarious but also about 99% expletives! Kinda funny/raw really.
Also, I like to pretend I would hang glide just to be cool…and just because I will probably never have the opportunity…and if I did, I’d probably do the same as you!
Ha! I love Thug Kitchen… I really want their cookbook which was just released! And, yes, I totally thought I was going to have no problem hang gliding…. until we got there!
SO excited! I have been craving a rice bowl for WEEKS! THANK YOU. Do you have a good homemade salsa recipe I could also add?
Hi, Amy! I usually use this version from The Pioneer Woman: http://thepioneerwoman.com/cooking/2010/01/restaurant-style-salsa/
This sounds so perfect right now. But a bowl of barbacoa and cilantro pretty much always sounds perfect. PS I totally hear you on the long hair thing. It’s hard, okay people? 🙂
Seriously! I don’t exactly love waking up with a giant rat’s nest in my hair every morning 😉
I do love Chipotle, but these look wonderful!!!