Blend barbacoa sauce. Combine beef broth, chipotle chiles in adobo sauce, garlic, apple cider vinegar, lime juice, dried oregano, cumin, sea salt, black pepper, and ground cloves in a blender (everything except the beef and bay leaves). Puree until it’s a smooth sauce/paste consistency.
If you've never had beef barbacoa before, this is a recipe you'll want to print and save in your recipe box. Beef barbacoa is tender shredded beef that has been seasoned with ancho peppers and guajillo peppers along with chipotles in adobo sauce and other seasonings.
Here are the barbacoa ingredients in my recipe, very similar to Chipotle’s: Beef – Use beef brisket or beef chuck roast. These tougher cuts have plenty of fat and connective tissue (read: collagen), which means they turn into juicy, fall-apart tender barbacoa meat when slow cooked.
If you like barbacoa beef, you'll love this copycat Chipotle barbacoa recipe in a slow cooker -- it's easy, healthy, and fall-apart delicious. This post may contain affiliate links, which help keep this content free. ( Full disclosure) Have you ever had the barbacoa beef at Chipotle?