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Tacos al pastor Recipe

 ·  ☕ 3 min read  ·  ✍️ Sadie Rowe

Tacos al pastor
Tacos al pastor

Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, tacos al pastor. One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Al pastor (from Spanish, shepherd style), also known as tacos al pastor, is a taco made with spit-grilled pork. Cooking method is based on the lamb shawarma brought by Lebanese immigrants to Mexico, al pastor features a flavor palate that uses traditional Mexican marinade adobada. Mexican-style Pork Tacos (Tacos Al Pastor). Tacos Al Pastor has to be my personal favorite taco to have on Taco Tuesday.

Tacos al pastor is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions daily. Tacos al pastor is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have tacos al pastor using 13 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Tacos al pastor:
  1. Prepare 2 lb pork meat
  2. Take 2 dry ancho chile
  3. Prepare 5 dry California chile
  4. Get 3 Chipotle chili in adobo
  5. Take 1/2 cup orange juice
  6. Take 1/2 cup pineapple juice
  7. Get 6 clove of garlic
  8. Make ready 1/2 large onion
  9. Take 1 cup diced pineapple
  10. Prepare 3 cloves
  11. Prepare 1 tbsp dry oregano
  12. Take 1 tsp ground cumin
  13. Make ready salt ( remember enough for all the pork)

Tacos al pastor is a wonderful Mexican dish that uses the beautiful pineapples that are grown all over Mexico. Tacos al pastor has always been a favorite of mine, but it seemed so out of reach for me to prepare at home. Then it’s just rinse and repeat for as long as you need to/want to. Tacos Al Pastor feature marinated pork, fresh pineapple and spices slowly grilled in your kitchen to juicy perfection.

Instructions to make Tacos al pastor:
  1. Boil water then turn off heat and put the dry chilies in the water and leave then in the water for about 15 min
  2. Put the rest of the ingredients into the blender to make the marinate
  3. Pour the marinate over the pork and refrigerate for 4 hours or for best results over night
  4. Now you can grill them up for best smokey taste but I cooked them on the stove top
  5. To serve as tacos lay the meat on a tortilla top with chopped onion, cilatro, I use a green salsa (tomatillos salsa), and a squirt of lime.
  6. Ready to serve and ENJOY!

Then it’s just rinse and repeat for as long as you need to/want to. Tacos Al Pastor feature marinated pork, fresh pineapple and spices slowly grilled in your kitchen to juicy perfection. I’m sharing four ways to make this pork taco recipe. Tacos al pastor will never taste the same again. Great al pastor adobo, I mean, this is the first time I see achiote paste in any recipe, good job.

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