Vacadillos carne seca is just what you’re looking for if you want dried meat with some heat. While you can choose one of the milder flavors, some of these options are super, super hot.

So I bought 2½ pounds of carne seca (that's $50—dried beef ain't cheap) from La Tapatia Market at Southeast 183rd Avenue and Stark Street, and spent the weekend experimenting with adapted recipes.

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Carne seca on a chili relleno at El Charro, 311 N. Court Ave. in Tucson, AZ. Photo taken Wednesday, November 19, 2014. Photo by Ron Medvescek / Arizona Daily Star. Ron Medvescek / Arizona Daily Star ...

Nevertheless, it's this renowned house specialty, the carne seca ("dry meat") combination, that we both order. Then Miller turns to the subject of the city I've driven down from.

What’s the not-so-secret ingredient in El Charro’s carne seca? Nothing less than Tucson sunshine. The local institution—now nearing ready to celebrate its 100th birthday—cooks its beef in ...

El Charro’s sun-dried carne seca has become a thing of legend. This stringy dry beef combines perfectly with El Charro’s red salsa to produce one of Southern Arizona’s finest plates.

Machacado, also called machaca, is a breakfast dish native to northern Mexico, consisting of carne seca (shredded dry beef) mixed with scrambled eggs. It is often made with chopped onion, tomato ...

For Star subscribers: In "Cactus Makes Perfect," to air May 26, El Charro Café matriarch Carlotta Flores challenges the finalists to make a dish using her roof-dried carne seca.