This is the closest I have come to the amazing breakfast machacas I get when we are in Southern California. I craved them throughout my pregnancy and often wake up now starving, and itching for one. Sadly, no Mexican machacas stands in this area. My mother makes this Pakistani shredded beef that is brilliant eaten so many different ways; alone, in slider buns, as a panini with cheese, with pasta and coconut curry, and my favorite way, as a breakfast burrito. I heat up the beef and some potatoes and scramble in some eggs and cheese, and slide it into a warm tortilla. It's incredibly satisfying and hearty, the kind of breakfast that has you happily filled up until past lunch.
Shredded Beef (Mirchi Ghost)
2 pounds stewing beef
1/2 pound onion sliced thin
1 tbsp garlic paste
1 tbsp ginger paste
1tbsp cumin ground
2 tbsp corinder powder
8 to 10 green chillies long ones
1tsp turmeric powder
lime juice to taste
Heat oil in a dutch oven over medium high heat. Saute onions until soft and tips start to get brown then add ginger and garlic and fry for a minute or two, then add beef and saute until brown. Add water about 3'' over meat and cook on slow or in pressure cooker until tender - this will take around 4 hours in a dutch oven. You may have to adjust water to more or less depending on the meat. The idea is to get the beef fork tender and have the mixture moist not soupy when beef is cooked. Set aside and heat a little oil in a pan and add the spices then the whole chilies. Cook until they are soft and add the reserved beef and blend it all in. Add lime juice to taste.
Breakfast burrito (2 servings)
1/2 c shredded beef
1/2 cooked yukon gold potato, chopped or mashed
2 tortillas
2 eggs plus 1 egg white, beaten
shredded cheese, to taste (about 1/4 cup)
salt, pepper, paprika
To cook the potato, I often simply microwave it for 2 minutes, pricked with fork. Heat some oil in a non stick pan, add potatoes and toast a bit, then add beef and let warm throughout. Salt, pepper and add a pinch of paprika to the egg and pour in. Add cheese and stir until cooked. Spoon into warm flour tortilla and add cilantro, if desired.
Breakfast burrito (2 servings)
1/2 c shredded beef
1/2 cooked yukon gold potato, chopped or mashed
2 tortillas
2 eggs plus 1 egg white, beaten
shredded cheese, to taste (about 1/4 cup)
salt, pepper, paprika
To cook the potato, I often simply microwave it for 2 minutes, pricked with fork. Heat some oil in a non stick pan, add potatoes and toast a bit, then add beef and let warm throughout. Salt, pepper and add a pinch of paprika to the egg and pour in. Add cheese and stir until cooked. Spoon into warm flour tortilla and add cilantro, if desired.
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