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Tacos al Pastor

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Ingredients

🐖 Pork & Marinade

  • 1 deboned pork shoulder, thinly sliced
  • 6 dried guajillo chiles, toasted & deseeded
  • ½ fresh pineapple
  • Juice of 3 oranges
  • Juice of 2 limes
  • ½ cup brown sugar
  • 5 cloves garlic
  • 1/2 cup fresh cilantro
  • 3 tbsp Spanglish Asadero Al Pastor seasoning
  • 2 tbsp achiote paste
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🥑 Guacamole

  • 3 avocados
  • Juice of 2 limes
  • 1 Roma tomato, diced
  • ¼ white onion, diced
  • 3 cloves garlic, minced
  • ¼ cup chopped cilantro
  • 1 jalapeño, diced
  • Spanglish Asadero Garlic Salt seasoning

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🌶️ Fire-Roasted Salsa Verde

  • 6 tomatillos
  • 2 Anaheim peppers
  • ½ white onion
  • 3-4 cloves garlic
  • Handful of cilantro
  • Juice of 1 lime
  • Spanglish Asadero Garlic Salt seasoning

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🌮 For Serving

  • Corn tortillas
  • Fresh pineapple, diced
  • Diced white onion
  • Chopped cilantro
  • Lime wedges

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Al Pastor

Directions
  1. Blend all marinade ingredients until smooth. Coat the pork slices thoroughly and refrigerate overnight.
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  2. Fire roast the tomatillos, Anaheim peppers, onion, and garlic over charcoal. Grind in a molcajete with cilantro, lime juice, and Spanglish Asadero Garlic Salt seasoning. Refrigerate until ready to serve.
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  3. Mash the avocados and mix with the lime juice, tomato, onion, garlic, cilantro, jalapeño, and Spanglish Asadero Garlic Salt seasoning.
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  4. Place two large pineapple pieces on each end of the rotisserie spit. Stack the marinated pork slices tightly between the pineapple and secure firmly in place.
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  5. Cook on the rotisserie over charcoal for about 1 hour, shaving off the crispy outer layer as it cooks. Return the spit to continue cooking and repeat until all the pork has been sliced.
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  6. Build tacos with corn tortillas, guacamole, al pastor, pineapple, salsa verde, diced onion, cilantro, and fresh lime juice. Serve immediately.