Barbacoa
Brandon Hurtado
The Heart of Tex-Mex Barbecue
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Release Date: 03/04/2025
The Heart of Tex-Mex Barbecue Barbacoa serves up 80 incredible recipes from the world’s most acclaimed Hispanic barbecue chef, in the first-ever book devoted to Mexican and Tex-Mex smoke-cooked barbecue. Enhance your backyard BBQ experience in big and bold ways, with the first-ever book on Tex-Mex and Mexican smoke-cooked barbecue.
“In Barbacoa, pitmaster Brandon Hurtado combines traditional Texas barbecue with Mexican flourishes and flavors. The result: delicious, approachable recipes that are as innovative as they are appealing. […] If you want to be crowned the barbecue champion of your backyard, this one’s a winner.”
—Wall Street Journal
You’ve seen multiple books on Southern BBQ and African-American BBQ, but nothing on the third great barbecue tradition—Hispanic barbecue. Here to fill that gap at last is Brandon Hurtado, the most celebrated practitioner of Tex-Mex barbecue around. His Dallas-area restaurant, Hurtado Barbecue, appears on Texas Monthly’s authoritative list of the top 50 barbecue joints in Texas and in Southern Living magazine’s ranking of the 50 best barbecue restaurants in the entire US South.
Barbacoa presents Brandon’s masterpiece recipes for everything from Pulled Pork Carnitas and Lobster Tostadas to Barbacoa con Papas and Brisket Birria Tacos—and beyond. You’ll find intensely flavorful recipes for:
If you want to master the most deeply flavored barbecue on earth—and that, in a nutshell, is what Tex-Mex barbecue is—you cannot do better than to learn from a master like Brandon Hurtado. His book promises a lifetime of smoke-infused flavor and deep enjoyment.