Pork Belly Brisket Tacos

Preparation info
  • Makes

    8 to 10

    servings
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Barbacoa: The Heart of Tex-Mex Barbecue

By Brandon Hurtado

Published 2025

  • About

Pork belly and brisket don’t normally fall into the same sentence unless you’re at a restaurant that serves them both. But pork belly cooked like a brisket? That’s blasphemy, right? Wrong! Pork belly brisket takes everything we know in Texas about smoking that perfectly peppery, barked-up brisket and applies it to succulent pork belly. This dish is rich, almost like eating wagyu. It goes without saying that putting something this good in a taco is a must-have in Tex-Mex barbecue, but