![]() The pork is typically cooked on a vertical rotisserie, similar to how shawarma or gyro meat is cooked, but we simply popped ours in the oven, and easily shredded it when it was finished cooking. It’s said that al pastor is a dish said that was brought to Mexico by Lebanese immigrants. After coating the pork roast in seasonings and searing it, just pop it into the oven for a couple of hours, and there’s not much left to do but enjoy. I love making dishes like this on a Sunday afternoon when I have a little more time to lounge. Over the weekend, as I was crying, “Let’s get tacos!” he was thinking, “Let’s go to the grocery store to pick up a pork roast.” We did get tacos, and we got a pork roast, too. If you like pork with great flavor, check out my recipe for Grilled Pork with Korean-Style BBQ Sauce! Grab a few napkins, too! Another is my Caramel Apple Pork Medallions - easy to make and so good! It’s not difficult to come by good Mexican food here in Phoenix, and I’ve had my fair share of traditional tacos al pastor around town, but I have to credit my husband with this recipe idea. That was the inspiration for these pork al pastor bowls: I wanted to get to the good stuff as soon as possible! That’s how I feel sometimes when it comes to my favorite Mexican dishes like these lower-carb (no taco shells present in this dish) pork al pastor bowls.ĭon’t get me wrong! I’m all about to-die-for tacos and burritos that are the bomb, but sometimes, I just want to get to the goodies on the inside without any obstacles. ![]() It’s not what’s on the outside, but what’s inside that counts. Try a traditional-style meal served in a non-traditional way: toss together a few ingredients and you’ll soon be set for a scrumptious meal. Instead, the episode "Carnitas" traces the simmering pork and lard dish to the state of Michoacán.Pork al Pastor Bowls are a flavorful, Mexican-inspired dish that’s easy to make. ![]() Other episodes confront the clash of imperial Spanish and indigenous food traditions, correcting longstanding myths about the origin of certain taco recipes, such as the widespread claim that it was Hernán Cortés himself who first invented the carnitas taco, during a victory celebration after the 1521 capture of Tlatelolco. It's like the crowning moment for the glutton, having a barbacoa taco." "This taco's flavor is very special, the meat is softer than the tortilla," Paco de Santiago, a cultural guide, says in the series' fifth episode. When the Spanish brought lambs, goats and pigs, the pib treatment was an obviously amazing idea. Taco Chronicles traces this method back to the Mayan Pib, a sunken oven method used to cook pheasant, deer and peccary, in a tradition that survived the Mayans. The mouth-melting, soft pork in barbacoa tacos combines all the best qualities of roasting and steaming, by wrapping the meat in agave leaves and cooking it in a specialized, firewood-stoked well, where the meat is cooked beneath ground level for eight to 16 hours. The episode "Barbacoa" shares a different origin story for its starring taco, founded in indigenous Mayan cooking traditions. Replacing the vertical spit of lamb meat with pork, second and third generation Lebanese Mexicans began selling a fusion of shawarma and tacos, with tacos al pastor taking off in the mid-20th century.Ī spit of pork, ready for tacos al pastor, in Netflix's new series "Taco Chronicles." Netflix The episode traces the Mexican variant back to Lebanese communities settling in Puebla after coming in through the ports of Veracruz, immigrating from the Ottoman Empire. In "Pastor," Las Crónicas del Taco traces the al pastor taco to the Anatolian peninsula, placing tacos al pastor in the same culinary lineage as shawarma and doner kebab. ![]() "The best foods in the world are spaghetti and al pastor tacos," a girl in catrina makeup says. The first episode of Taco Chronicles, about the al pastor taco, is typical of the combination of influences at the heart of these treasured Mexican dishes. Each episode also tracks the historic origins of the various recipes, illuminating origin stories both indigenous and immigrant, but most often a combination of both. The new Netflix food documentary series Las Crónicas del Taco, or Taco Chronicles, follows the sounds and smells of sizzling meat around Mexico (with at least one stop in Los Angeles), exploring six different kinds of tacos―ingredients, cooking methods, the top chefs. ![]()
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