Easy Slow Cooked Tacos Al Pastor

Great meal to prep the night before and start in the morning before work, you will come home to a delicious dinner and still have time left to do something fun for the evening!

Prep: 10 min

Cook Time: 7 hrs (in crockpot) on low

Serves: 4-6

Ingredients:

• 2.5 lbs of pork tenderloin
• 8 pineapple rings (fresh)
• 1 large white onion, halved

• 1 cup fresh mango orange juice
• 1/4 cup distilled white vinegar
• 1/4 cup guajillo chile powder
• 3 garlic cloves, halved
• 2 teaspoons coarse sea salt
• 1 teaspoon dried oregano (preferably Mexican)
• 1 teaspoon freshly ground cumin
• 1 large chipotle chile from adobo sauce
• 1/4 cup chopped fresh cilantro
• Corn tortillas
• Smoky Two-Chile Salsa
• Lime wedges
• Hand full of chopped red potatoes (if desired).

Instructions:

1. Coarsely chop 1 onion half. Coarsely chop 2 pineapple rounds, discarding core; cover and chill remaining pineapple. Place chopped onion and chopped pineapple in blender. Add orange juice and next 7 ingredients; puree marinade until smooth.
2. Place tenderloins in crock pot on low and pour sauce on top of pork and cover for 7 hours. (add potatoes if you’d like).
3. For the last 30 min add the remaining pineapple to crock pot.
4. Remove pork and pineapple and roughly chop into chunks.
5. Serve on corn tortillas with cilantro, white onion, lime, smokey salsa, and pineapple chunks.
6. I like to serve with a black bean puree and potatoes.

Pork