Mexican
Tacos al Pastor
Ingredients
The quantities follow this count.
How to cook it
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Blend the achiote paste, pineapple juice, vinegar, garlic, cumin, and salt into a smooth marinade.
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Slice the pork thinly, coat it in the marinade, and let it sit for 30 minutes.
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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.
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Add the diced pineapple to the pan and char it lightly with the pork for 2 minutes.
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Warm the corn tortillas on a dry griddle until pliable.
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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.
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The protein alongside
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The sharp little thing
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.
| 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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