Our marinade infuses the pork shoulder with delicious authentic flavors – earthy, sweet, smokey, peppery and savory) and it tenderizes it. You need to marinate the pork to get it to take on flavors and become tenderized before you grill it. Grilling alone will not yield the flavorful and tender al pastor meat. Regardless, we include instructions on using a slow cooker, oven or pressure cooker/instant pot. You could go the slow cooker route but you will miss out on the grilled flavor and depart from the original concept of spit grilling, so your results will not be as authentic. The easiest way to make tacos al pastor at home is to grill some sliced pork shoulder. The Easiest Way to Make Tacos al Pastor at homeīesides buying your own nifty trompo/kebab/schwarma machine When a trompo is used, the meat is sliced quite thin before cooked slowly for hours. It has tons of flavor in result of being situated in a part of the pig that gets used a lot and contains a fair amount of fat. The most favored cut of pork for tacos al pastor is pork shoulder. When Lebanese immigrants made their way to Mexico pork took the place of lamb, dried chiles and pineapple flavored the meat, corn tortillas got the role of flatbread and the trompo started spinning. The pile of meat cooks slowly and evenly as the vertical rod spins and is shaved off onto some type of flatbread (different countries use their own versions).
This method of cooking originated in the Ottoman empire and spread to every part of the Middle East and the parts of Europe that were under its influence. Tacos al pastor cooked on a vertically situated trompo (‘spinning top’) are a direct descendant of the vertical rotisserie cooked doner kebab. Taco means ‘light snack’ from Spanish and in Mexico was applied to a tortilla wrapped around a filling (a practice that originated way before the Spanish came to the land of the Aztecs). The descriptive name of the dish al pastor referred to the method of preparing meat by spit-grilling it, nice and slow, for hours, just as shepherds would.
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We will show you how to cook these delicious street tacos at home! You need no special skills or elaborate equipment. Learn the secret to tender and flavorful authentic tacos al pastor.
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