Example sentences for: barbacoa

How can you use “barbacoa” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • According to the Diccionario de Mejicanismos (Dictionary of Mexicanisms), barbacoa is “carne asada en un hoyo que se abre en tierra, y se calienta como los hornos” (grilled meat cooked in a hole in the ground heated like an oven).

  • Today the term barbacoa is used only to mean the cooking of meat in a pit, also called pit cooking.

  • Barbacoa refers to a method of cooking meat, in a pit of hot wood coals.

  • Barbacoa de cabeza is the cooking of a beef head in this manner.

  • The English word barbecue comes from barbacoa.


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