Chicken al pastor tacos
35 min · 33 g protein · 424 cals / serving
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.
Servings4
Ingredients
- 6 chicken thighs, sliced thin
Marinade
- 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 corn tortillas, warmed
- 1/2 white onion, diced fine
- a handful fresh cilantro, chopped
- 2, in wedges limes
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.
Per
- Calories
- 147
- Protein
- (32%)
- 11 g
- Fat
- (33%)
- 5 g
- Carbohydrates
- (35%)
- 14 g
- of which sugar
- 3 g
- Fiber
- 2 g
- Sodium
- 256 mg
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As written, 1695 kcal goes into the pot and 1220 g of ingredients comes out as about 1150 g of food: 147 kcal per 100 g. Cooking moves water and energy density is the score's biggest lever, so the dish is scored as cooked, not as an average of its parts. Every ingredient links to its food page, with the same data and score. The label's percentages are each macronutrient's share of the calories. The full formula.