What Salpicón means
Salpicón is a Mexican main dish name of Spanish origin meaning "salted chopped mixture". It is built from Spanish sal (salt) and picón (from picar, to chop). It is pronounced sal-pee-KON, and it is most associated with the whole country.
An old Spanish word for a chopped and salted mix. In Mexico it means shredded beef dressed cold with lime and onion.
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.
