# Tacos al Pastor

- Servings: 4 servings
- Cuisine: Mexican
- Category: Dinner
- Difficulty: medium
- Language: en

## Ingredients

- 1 whole pork shoulder butt, sliced
- several dried chiles
- several clove garlic
- 1 whole onion
- 2 bay leaf
- 1/2 cup water
- 1/4 cup vinegar
- 1 tbsp achiote paste
- 1 tsp cumin seed
- 1 tbsp salt
- 1 tsp black pepper
- 1 cup canned pineapple juice
- 1/2 cup chicken stock
- 1 whole lime juice
- 10 whole tomatillo
- 4 whole jalapeño pepper
- 1 bunch cilantro
- 2 cup corn masa flour
- 1 whole oaxaca cheese

## Instructions

1. Slice the pork shoulder butt into smaller steaks.
2. Remove seeds and stems from dried chiles.
3. Toast chiles, garlic, onion, and bay leaves in a pan.
4. Add water and vinegar to the pan to soften the chiles.
5. Transfer the toasted ingredients to a blender, adding achiote paste, cumin, salt, pepper, pineapple juice, chicken stock, and lime juice.
6. Blend until a smooth marinade forms.
7. Pour the marinade over the pork slices and refrigerate.
8. Remove husks from tomatillos, then grill tomatillos, jalapeños, onion, and garlic for the salsa.
9. Crush garlic and salt in a mortar and pestle, followed by the grilled jalapeños, then the tomatillos.
10. Mix chopped cilantro into the salsa.
11. Stack the marinated pork and pineapple slices onto a vertical skewer.
12. Roast the pork stack on a grill.
13. Mix corn masa flour with water to create tortilla dough, press into discs, and cook on a griddle.
14. Shred the oaxaca cheese to prepare it for gringas.

## Equipment

- knife
- skillet
- blender
- refrigerator container
- grill
- mortar and pestle
- vertical meat skewer
- mixing bowl
- tortilla press

## Source

- Original video: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTDukG6rJ/
- Creator: crazykoreancooking
- Recipe page: https://www.cliprecipe.com/recipe/3fab51ab-9a18-4fab-b5f8-dd79c4799668
- Extracted: 2026-08-22

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