Tacos al Pastor

Mexican

Tacos al Pastor

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Tacos al Pastor is Mexican home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.

60 min Involved Gluten free Dairy free

Ingredients

Serves
5

The quantities follow this count.

How to cook it

  1. Blend the achiote paste, pineapple juice, vinegar, garlic, cumin, and salt into a smooth marinade.

  2. Slice the pork thinly, coat it in the marinade, and let it sit for 30 minutes.

  3. Heat the oil in a large skillet over high heat and sear the pork in batches until caramelized and cooked through, about 4 minutes per batch.

  4. Add the diced pineapple to the pan and char it lightly with the pork for 2 minutes.

  5. Warm the corn tortillas on a dry griddle until pliable.

  6. Fill the tortillas with pork and pineapple, then finish with diced onion and cilantro.

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Serve it with

A Mexican dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Tacos al Pastor, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

Safe at your table

Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand. Tacos al Pastor carries none of them. That is a checked answer rather than an ingredient list nobody read.

Every tracked allergen in Tacos al Pastor
Allergen In this dish
Peanuts No
Tree nuts No
Dairy No
Gluten No
Shellfish No
Eggs No
Soy No
Fish No
Sesame No
Coconut No

These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.

What it brings to the plate

Estimated, per serving

Calories
470 kcal
Protein
26 g
Carbs
32 g
Fat
26 g
Fiber
3 g
Sugar
6 g
Sodium
520 mg
Saturated fat
8 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

When to cook it

Tacos al Pastor takes about 60 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a proper project. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.

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