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Tacos al pastor. Tacos al pastor are tacos of thinly sliced pork marinated in a chile and achiote adobo, stacked on a vertical spit called a trompo, shaved to order onto small corn tortillas and usually finished with pineapple, onion, cilantro and salsa. The style grew out of the spit-roasted meat brought to Puebla by Middle Eastern immigrants and took its modern, red-marinated form in Mexico City. Read more…
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- … Lard: Lard, manteca de cerdo, is rendered pork fat, a traditional cooking fat in Mexico used for frying antojitos, cooking carnitas, enriching tamal dough and flavoring beans a…
- … Vampiros: A vampiro is a Sinaloan taco built on a corn tortilla toasted on the griddle or over charcoal until crisp and curled, then layered with melted cheese, carne asada, and to…
- … Tacos in Coahuila: Coahuila, on the Texas border, is goat and beef country whose taco traditions include Sunday beef barbacoa in Saltillo, the mixed-meat discada of the Comarca Lagunera and…
- … Tacos de cabeza: Tacos de cabeza are tacos filled with meat taken from a cooked beef head, usually steamed or simmered for hours, chopped on a wooden block and served on small corn tortil…
- … Tacos in Mexico City: Mexico City, the federal capital, is the country's densest taco market and the birthplace of tacos al pastor and suadero; its streets also host basket-carried tacos de ca…
- … Tacos in Veracruz: Veracruz, the long Gulf coast state, has a cuisine built on seafood, Huasteca corn traditions and African, Spanish and Indigenous influences; its tacos run from shrimp an…
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