As a Mexican, I went into this knowing it is a take on birria and my curiosity is what led me here. I mean, if some fast food joints can make some decent “birria”(looking at you Del Taco) why not HF?
But this was even worse than I would have thought. This is basically beef stew they want you to eat in a tortilla.
First, there’s no potatoes in birria but I was willing to overlook that and still followed the recipe. The spices added when it started cooking were very fragrant and seemed promising.
But no, this was a complete fail. The fragrance was misleading and didn’t leave much flavoring, and definitely not anything leading to birria. The meat, just cubes in the taco (birria has shredded meat, I followed the recipe and didn’t shred) with those random potatoes was just unappealing. The “consume” was just thick flavorless stew juice.
I want to know who is working on the test kitchen cause this was a joke.
by aGirlySloth
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I just made it too. It was edible, but too dry and thick.
I liked it but they should just name it something else lmao
As an immigrant, virtually all Americanized versions of food that you know from home tend to be disappointing (don’t get me started how hard it is to get even half-decent pretzels anywhere here). That said, the ingredients look decent enough that I cannot imagine this being that terrible tasting. I always have some extra spices at hand because HF often disappoints on that end, but the basic ingredients sound like you could make a nice soup with them, even if you just serve it in a cup with tortilla chips on the side.
I love birria and was excited to see this meal but as soon as I saw the potatoes I kept scrolling. That one horrifying addition made it quite clear that this meal wasn’t going to be birria. For people who like meat and potatoes, birria ain’t.
Yes definitely beef stew like, but we ended up smashing the potatoes and adding the beef and I thought it was pretty tasty! Definitely needed a lot of salt though.
There’s no rule that says if you don’t like the way a recipe is turning out you can’t make it differently. And, by different I mean better.