Relating to or prepared using the barbacoa method of cooking; cooked slowly over coals or in a pit.
From barbacoa plus the English adjectival suffix -an, creating an adjective form that describes food prepared using the traditional method.
Barbacoan meats have such specific cooking chemistry—the low temperature cooking creates collagen breakdown that you can't replicate with regular grilling, that's why it tastes so different!
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