Al Pastor Spice Blend

Poco Picante

£4.99

Inspired by the street taquerías of Mexico City In 1930s Mexico City, Lebanese immigrants arrived with their shawarma — spiced meat stacked on a vertical spit, carved fresh as it crisped and caramelised. Mexico watched- then made it entirely its own, but better. Out went the lamb. In went pork, dried chillies and — crucially — a whole fresh pineapple balanced on top of the spit. That pineapple changed everything. Its sweetness softens the heat of the chillies. Its acidity tenderises the meat as it cooks. And when a slice drops down onto the meat in the final moments — sticky, charred and caram

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