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For today's cook I'm gonna show you how easy it is to make an amazing taco
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al pastor at home. This is guaranteed to have everyone in your family asking you
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for more. To make it even better I'm gonna show you two amazing sauces to go
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along with it. And let's not forget homemade tortilla. So let's do it!
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We started off with a pork shoulder butt. It's thirteen and a half pounds, it is an
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affordable piece of meat and it works great for this dish. The first thing I
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like to do is to remove the bone. Use the bone as a guide and work nice and slow.
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The only goal you have is to keep as much meat as possible, so be sure to stay
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as close as possible to the bone. As you can see it easily comes out. Since we're
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making taco al pastor the next thing to do is to slice them thin.
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When I say thin I mean half an inch thick you don't want paper-thin. And it's
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all to make sure our marinade will penetrate deeply into that meat. They
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don't need to be perfect slices, they just need to be thin. Your end goal is to
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end up with nice large pieces. The next thing to do is our marinade and it is
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delicious. And here's how to make it. this is guajillo chili it is not spicy
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but it has a wonderful flavor, and as you can see it comes completely dehydrated.
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Remember exact amount and ingredients always in the description down below for
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you. Since it's completely dry the first thing I like to do is to put it in some
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boiling water; that brings the chili back to life. You don't want to cook them for
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too long, anywhere between 30 seconds to a minutes does the job. Once the time is
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up just remove them and let them cool down. These are sour oranges, unlike
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regular oranges they're not sweet just like their name they're kind of sour and
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eating them by themselves it's not good, however they are perfect for a marinade.
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If you can't find sour oranges you will also be able to substitute with
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something else. Remember it's always in the description down below for you. To
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make this marinade all we have to do is throw everything into the food processor.
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We first started with the sour oranges, white vinegar, pineapple juice went in
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followed by the guajillo Chili's, garlic, white onions, cinnamon powder, white
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pepper, freshly ground black pepper, dry oregano, cumin and to finish it off a
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good amount of achiote powder. Now all there's left to do is mix it well in
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your food processor until all the ingredients have combined together and
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your marinade is done. It smells so good that you're gonna want to eat it just
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like this, but don't. Now all there's left to do is put it in the meat and mix it well.
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It's important to make sure every single piece is heavily coated. Now the only
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thing left to do is to cover it up and let it marinate in your refrigerator for
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24 hours. As the meat is marinating I'm gonna show you an easy and simple but
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refreshing and tasty avocado sauce, here's how to do it. Using a hand
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processor throw in some avocado, lime juice, cilantro, freshly ground black
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pepper a good amount of mayonnaise and mexican queso crema. Now all there's left to
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do is mix it well and your avocado sauce is done. I'm telling you right now
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this sauce goes well with any taco or any sandwich. Since that was a refreshing
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sauce, I'm also gonna make a spicy sauce, come on this is Mexican food. And
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here's how to make it. I first started by rehydrating my chilis, we don't want to
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cook them we just want to rehydrate them. If you like it really spicy you can
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leave the seeds in but if you know me I don't like it too spicy. Then I took some
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tomatillos to the fire. I just want to put a nice char on them to give a nice
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flavor. Into the hand processor they went together with my chiles, mayo, freshly
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ground black pepper and finish it off with salt. Now all there's left to do is to
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blend it well and your hot chili sauce is done. Here's a quick tip if you want to
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save sauces just vacuum pack them they will last five times longer than if you
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leave it in jars. Now let's talk about tortilla. There's a
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lot of options out there. We got flour tortilla, obviously corn
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tortilla, tacos made out of white corn, street tacos made out of flour, the
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possibilities with tortillas are endless whenever you buying them pre-made. But I
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will tell you one thing there's nothing like making them at home. the fact that
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you control every aspect of the flavor is the perfect way to go. Homemade is
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always better. And today I'm going to show you how easy it is to make my
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version. And here's how to do it. A lot of people like to use lard, this is
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basically pork fat and it tastes good however I found out that butter tastes
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way better and ever since they tasted with butter I changed. And I know it's
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not traditional but just give it a try. I'm pretty sure you change as well. And
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this is masa de maiz it's the perfect flour to make tacos.
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I started off with my corn flour, threw in my melted butter and finished it off
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with water. You want to mix it well until everything is pliable you're looking for
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a consistency of play-doh if it's too dry you can always add more water. In the
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end you're basically looking for a nice pliable dough. If I pat it down and I
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press it lightly crumbles in the edges and this is the consistency you're
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looking for. Whenever I'm making tortillas I never use a measurement I
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always go by the feel. Once the mixing is done make sure to let your dough rest
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for at least 30 minutes. To make it easy for you to press your tortillas here's a
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quick tip using a ziplock bag cut out the sides this will stop the
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dough from sticking to the press. To make the tortilla is pretty simple. Just make a
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ball but right in the middle of the press push it down and that's it. Now
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all there's left to do is to cook it up. Talking about that, you want to use a
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cast iron this makes the job perfect every time because he retains the heat
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and you don't want to overcook your tortilla. Just make sure that they're
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lightly golden brown on the top and your tortillas are done. To help them finish
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cook and keep them moist I definitely recommend a tortilla warmer. If you don't
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have one you should it makes a world of a difference. The very next day my meat
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was done marinating so I quickly opened it up and give it a nice mix. I'm gonna
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be cooking mine on the grill but you can do just as good in the oven if you don't
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have a grill. And to make an authentic as possible I'm gonna use the pineapple
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trick. Place the pineapple right in the middle of a pan and using a chopstick
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put it right in the middle, this will allow you to stack up the meat just like
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they do in Mexico. The only thing to keep in mind is try to keep a round shape
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throughout the whole process. If any of the pieces are too large just make sure
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you cut them and put them on top. Try to keep them evenly so that your tower will
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not fall in the end, every small piece that comes out goes right in the middle.
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To finish it off just crown it with a pineapple and your taco al pastor tower
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is ready for the grill. Talking about that I'm gonna be cooking it in indirect
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heat at 500 degrees Fahrenheit. As the juices starts falling off I'll be
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collecting that and basting it in itself. As the edge starts being cooked I'll
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be shaving it off so we can make some amazing tacos with it. But now I say it
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is enough talking and it is time to make some amazing tacos al pastor so let's do it!
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We have our beautiful tacos over here. What do you think Angel? Mine looks
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appealing yours huh. Angel wanted to go very very basic with a little bit of
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cheese no green stuff for you yeah? No green stuff. There's green right here yes of course.
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Okay let's go for it yeah you ready to try it?
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Wait. Can I try just the tortilla? Yeah. Because I saw you over there making it.
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You never had homemade tortilla okay you try to go for it. I wanna try your tortilla bro.
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Tell me. Oh. Isn't it completely different? If you never had a homemade tortilla.
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Oh that doesn't compare. It's definitely like a different experience isn't it the
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one that you buy from the store so dry. It's like fluffy. Fluffy moist you know what I mean
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it's like I like. I like that one. That is amazing definitely recommend it. That makes me wanna eat it more.
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All right let's go for it yeah. I'm not a taco expert but I hope I did it justice
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all right my Mexican friends take it easy on me. Yeah, yeah? You tell them in
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the comments Guga what are you doing! Cheers everybody. Cheers.
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humm
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oh
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That's good! Come on that is amazing.
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like a sweetness that comes after you after you
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bite it. That's the pineapple, such a nice flavor
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everybody it's difficult to explain this marinade right? Let's go. Oh you
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go for another bite? Let's go. Let's go. I know you didn't want to try the salsita
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but you gotta try the salsita. It's a little bit spicy but you can
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handle it bro. Okay here do like this do a spoon. A full spoon. Just like that oh
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there you go my friend a full spoon full flavor take it like a man. Go ahead. I hope I survive
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tonight. Tonight? Ha, tomorrow when you go to the bathroom that one is gonna come
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in. It's spicy but it's not that bad. Super flavorful. It's spicy. Woah I heard you.
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It's spicy boy. Let's put a little bit. Oh come on Angel. Cheers everybody.
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Salsita! I'm not dying. You're not dying how about the flavor isn't it extremely
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flavorful. It does have a lot of flavor something in there it's just hot, like it
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just makes your tongue tingle. Anyway guys this is my results with my taco. I
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future videos. Remember if you're interested in anything I use everything
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is always at the description down below. Thank you so much for watching and we'll
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see you guys on the next one. Take care everybody.
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bye bye. Wow this is good. So amazing bro I can eat this every single day. There's a
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reason why my Mexican friends are the king of tacos because it is amazing. See
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you guys on the next one take care of everybody bye bye.