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Chicken al pastor tacos

Name: Chicken al pastor tacos
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 35 min
Yield: 4 servings
Ingredients: 6 thighs chicken thigh, sliced thin; 3 dried ancho chiles, soaked and blended; 3/4 cup canned pineapple juice pack, half blended, half diced; 1 1/2 tbsp apple cider vinegar; 3 cloves garlic; 1 1/2 tsp ground cumin; 1 tsp dried oregano; 1 tsp salt; 1 tbsp canola oil; 10 tortillas corn tortilla, warmed; 1/2 white onions, diced fine; a handful fresh cilantro, chopped; 2, in wedges lime

Taquería al pastor without the spit: chicken thighs marinated in chile, pineapple and spices, seared hard and folded into corn tortillas with onion, cilantro and more pineapple.

Time: 35 min (20 prep + 15 cook)
Servings: 4
Per serving: 424 kcal
Protein: 33 g

Ingredients

6 thighs chicken thigh, sliced thin600 g

Marinade

3 dried ancho chiles, soaked and blended20 g
3/4 cup canned pineapple juice pack, half blended, half diced150 g
1 1/2 tbsp apple cider vinegar25 g
3 cloves garlic12 g
1 1/2 tsp ground cumin3 g
1 tsp dried oregano2 g
1 tsp salt6 g

1 tbsp canola oil15 g
10 tortillas corn tortilla, warmed250 g
1/2 white onions, diced fine80 g
a handful fresh cilantro, chopped12 g
2, in wedges lime45 g

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Steps

Blend the soaked anchos with half the pineapple, the vinegar, garlic, cumin, oregano and salt. Marinate the sliced chicken 30 minutes to overnight.
Sear in a ripping-hot pan in batches — you want char, and a crowded pan gives you stew.
Warm the tortillas in the same pan to pick up the fond.
Build: chicken, diced pineapple, onion, cilantro, hard squeeze of lime. The pineapple isn't a gimmick — the acid is what makes al pastor taste like al pastor.

Why this score

solidly filling

No single route carries this one — a moderate amount of protein, volume and fiber.

Three routes to fullness — one is enough

31% of kcal

69% water

15 g/Mcal

What pulls it down

Nothing here converges the way engineered food does — no sugar, no savoury and no alcohol penalty.

How scores work

Computed on the finished dish, not an average of the parts: 1695 kcal goes into the pot, 1220 g of ingredients comes out as ~1150 g of food → 147 kcal per 100 g. Cooking moves water, and energy density is the score's biggest lever — so we show the math. Full formula here.

Per

Calories: 147
Protein: (31%); 11 g
Fat: (32%); 5 g
Carbohydrates: (37%); 14 g
of which sugar: 2 g
Fiber: 2 g
Sodium: 256 mg

Percentages are the share of calories from each macronutrient.

Computed from the ingredients' USDA data — nothing typed by hand. Every number is traceable, every score recomputable.

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Photo: AI-generated. Nutrition and score are computed from the ingredients with the published formula — this recipe hasn't been kitchen-tested by us yet.