Need advice for smoking/seasoning meat for tacos

wtb375

Looking for advice, recipes, and anything else one might add to make tacos.  I do not care of it is beef, chicken, or pork, but I thought smoking the meat and having a flavorful rub would make a great taco.  I am making this for a party and do not want wet, saucy dripping meat.  I also do not want thin sliced meat either, was thinking more along the lines of shredded meat with lots of flavor, like my pork butts.  Anyways I would put it all in a pan and let people serve make their own tacos. 

Thanks in advance,

Billy  

Slippy

I always make tacos using baby back rib meat. If you smoke it long enough, it pulls really easy. I use corn tortillas, grilled corn, cilantro, onions and avocados... Really good. 

saluki2007

Love this one:
https://eggheadforum.com/discussion/1164583/baja-wave-tequila-lime-tacos

fishlessman

favorite taco here is shrimp with avacado, pickled red cabbage and sriracha/adobo chili/honey/crema sauce.  one ive seen lately was a korean beef taco with kimchi, that might be this weekends cook   you didnt say anything about it being mexican

Carolina Q

This guy knows what he's doing...

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=bayless+taco+tuesday

Sandtree

To me tacos are all about the salsas and the advantage of not having too much sauce on the meat is people can decide how much and how hot they want themselves.

Did this recipe recently and it was fantastic... wouldnt take much to convert it from fry and oven to a reverse sear in the egg plus some smoke.

https://www.cooked.com/uk/Chris-Whitney-and-Nud-Dudhia/Quadrille-Publishing/Breddos-Tacos/Poultry--game/Yucatan-style-chicken-and-mango-habanero-salsa-recipe

shtgunal3

These are always a hit.... 

https://eggheadforum.com/discussion/1197813/chili-lime-chicken-tacos-with-a-pineapple-grilled-salsa-and-avocado-crema-pic-heavy

lkapigian

Kind of subjective as to what you like- In my mexican foods there are musts , salt pepper garlic cumin cilantro onion and lime

Smoke/Braise you some cheek meat, grill some onions have fun

bradleya123

Smoke a low and slow Boston Butt, that's all the taco meat you'll need!!!

Griffin

If you want beef and you don't want it sliced but shredded, try chuck roast and make some pulled beef tacos. Plenty of recipes on here if that's something you might be interested in. Now you got me wanting tacos.

fishlessman

something new up here is braised then crisped up pork belly tacos. i could see pork belly burnt ends taco candy

Carolina Q

fishlessman said:

something new up here is braised then crisped up pork belly tacos. i could see pork belly burnt ends taco candy

Tried this a couple of weeks ago. No braising, just slice the precooked belly and fry it up. The recipe as described was kind of ho hum for me, but I imagine a little experimenting with ingredients would help. Found the belly at TJ's.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DR0hYF8cdU&t=37s

xfire_ATX

I love Carnitas and posted up about it here https://eggheadforum.com/discussion/1213659

Inspiration from @KiterTodd