What Alambre means
Alambre is a Mexican main dish name of Spanish origin meaning "wire, skewer". It comes from Spanish alambre (wire). It is pronounced ah-LAM-breh, and it is most associated with Mexico City.
Originally meat threaded on a wire skewer. The griddled heap of beef, bacon, peppers and cheese kept the name long after the skewer disappeared.
This is a site about what Mexican words mean, so there is no recipe here. For the name itself: The plated dishes, most named for a cooking method or a place. Cochinita pibil is pork cooked in a píib, the Maya earth oven. Barbacoa gave English the word barbecue. Chiles en nogada is named for the walnut sauce that covers it.
