Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, tacos al pastor. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Tacos al pastor is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. They are fine and they look fantastic. Tacos al pastor is something that I have loved my entire life.
Heat the vegetable oil in a medium saucepan over medium heat. Tacos al pastor is a quintessential Mexican dish, with tender pork and pineapple marinated in a savory and aromatic chile sauce. Serve with warm corn tortillas, tomatillos salsa, and lemon or lime wedges.
To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have tacos al pastor using 13 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Tacos al pastor:
- Get 2 lb pork meat
- Take 2 dry ancho chile
- Make ready 5 dry California chile
- Get 3 Chipotle chili in adobo
- Take 1/2 cup orange juice
- Make ready 1/2 cup pineapple juice
- Prepare 6 clove of garlic
- Prepare 1/2 large onion
- Make ready 1 cup diced pineapple
- Make ready 3 cloves
- Make ready 1 tbsp dry oregano
- Take 1 tsp ground cumin
- Prepare salt ( remember enough for all the pork)
Al pastor (from Spanish, "shepherd style"), also known as tacos al pastor, is a taco made with spit-grilled pork. Based on the lamb shawarma brought by Lebanese immigrants to Mexico, al pastor features a flavor palate that combines traditional Middle Eastern spices with those indigenous to central Mexico. It is a popular street food that has spread to the United States. Authentic Tacos Al Pastor exploding with restaurant flavor made with thinly sliced chile pineapple marinated pork, grilled to perfection and served with caramelized pineapple.
Instructions to make Tacos al pastor:
- Boil water then turn off heat and put the dry chilies in the water and leave then in the water for about 15 min
- Put the rest of the ingredients into the blender to make the marinate
- Pour the marinate over the pork and refrigerate for 4 hours or for best results over night
- Now you can grill them up for best smokey taste but I cooked them on the stove top
- 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.
I am SO excited for you to try this Tacos Al Pastor recipe! Al Pastor is surprisingly simple to make but with explosive multi-dimensional flavor - all coming from your very own grill. For my Tacos Al Pastor I cut the pork into chunks then marinate them overnight in pineapple juice. Marinating overnight is not mandatory, a few hours is OK. For that super red color of authentic Mexican al pastor I add achiote paste.
So that is going to wrap it up for this special food tacos al pastor recipe. Thank you very much for reading. I’m confident you will make this at home. There is gonna be interesting food in home recipes coming up. Don’t forget to save this page on your browser, and share it to your loved ones, friends and colleague. Thank you for reading. Go on get cooking!
