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This recipe includes a chile verde sauce, slow cooked pork, and fried corn tortillas. I typically prepare this one on the weekend so I'm ready for tacos the rest of the week.
Makes 6 small tacos (one serving for me)
Ingredientes
- Meat:
- Pork shoulder (prefer picnic cut with bone)
- Spices for meat (I use ground cumin and chili powder)
- Taco Ingredients:
- Six 6" corn tortillas
- 1c Vegetable oil
- 4 leaves green leaf lettuce, chopped
- 1/2c Shredded Mexican cheese mix (jack + cheddar). I prefer Lucerne brand in the large bags at Safeway.
- 2 medium diced tomatoes
- 4T chopped pickled jalepenos from a jar
- 1/4c chopped red onion
- 1T chopped cilantro
- Chili Verde sauce:
- 1 habenero chili, seeded, and chopped
- Small bunch of cilantro, minus stems
- 6 cloves peeled garlic
- 8 tomatillos, peeled
- extra virgin olive oil
- 1 red onion chopped
Direcciones
- Prepare meat way ahead:
- - Preheat oven to 175 F
- - Place meat and 1c water in dutch oven
- - Cook for 8-11 hours
- - Let cool 20 minutes, then pick off the meat and shred it
- Prepare Chile Verde sauce ahead:
- - Preheat oven to 350
- - Combine ingredients in a big mixing bowl and shake to coat the olive oil everywhere. Salt to taste
- - Spread out ingredients on foil lined baking sheet
- - Bake on 350 for approx 40 min
- - Transfer to blender and puree for a minute
- Tortillas:
- - Set aside a paper towel covered plate to park fried tortillas
- - Add 1c oil to sauce pan and preheat to medium high
- - Using tongs and a spatula carefully fry the tortillas. I mostly use the spatula to prevent tearing. This takes a little practice, but basically, I fry one side for 5 seconds, use my spatula to crease and bend the tortilla in half, then use the tongs + spatula to carefully flip, then fry another 10 seconds or so.
- When re-using the meat from the refrigerator, I put the cold chunks of pork in a covered sauce pan on low temperature. After 5 minutes it's as good as new, and you can mix in your spices to taste.
- Plate:
- I stack ingredients in the following order: meat, cheese, jalepenos, onions, tomato, chili sauce, lettuce, cilantro, then hot sauce
- Recommended pairing: beer.
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