Taco Tuesday: Tacos Árabes
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 ก.ย. 2024
- You’re likely familiar with tacos al pastor, that glorious taco filling of red chile pork and pineapple roasted on a vertical spit. Well, tacos árabes is just as delicious. Think of it as pastor’s lesser-known cousin, heralding from the city of Puebla.
While tacos al pastor gets that remarkable red chile marinade, tacos árabes are flecked with a Middle Eastern blend of spices before getting spit-roasted and thin-sliced-they’ll probably remind you of a shawarma taco. Especially when you find out they’re typically served with thick flour tortillas, yogurt-like jocoque and cucumbers.
Especially when everyone tells you that it was the Lebanese who settled there over a century ago and brought the techniques and flavors.
Assuming you don’t have one of those big, vertical spit roasters in your kitchen-truly, my hat’s off to you if you do-we’re making a version where the sliced pork shoulder gets seared over high-heat on a grill pan. (No grill pan? Use a charcoal grill. No grill? Try cast iron. Just make it. You’ll thank me.)
Get the recipe: www.rickbayless...
Pork shawarma, but with Mexican spices...totally awesome!
What makes Tacos Arabes amazeballs is the huge variety of sides. I feel that is the Arab touch.
I am loving the Taco Tuesday series soooo much!! Thanks Chef Rick!!
You forgot the chipotle sauce !
Almost all the restaurants in Puebla that sell tacos arabes used a chipotle based sauce but other than that it’s looks good !
did this and was a success for dinner and was very quick and easy and very affordable loved it. thank you
It'll be a cold day in hell when I heat up thick chunks of cucumber to eat on anything! BUT, being born in Lebanon, raised in KSA & retired to Mexico, I WILL be making these. With local lamb, and my homemade thoom (Arabic garlic sauce). Cheers Rick, love your videos. You're aces to share your recipes & techniques with us, even though we criticize & contradict & often find fault. Still, we look to you. Gracias from Baja California Sur.
Le falto el oregano y la salsa de chipotle ,
Mi buen Rick.
Thanks to the Lebanese for these tacos and Salma Hayek.;)
Yummy!
...on both counts!
@@c.j.rogers2422 LoL
Funny, one of the foods I miss most living in Mexico is Greek food! I have been looking for unsweetened yogurt here but can't find any (in our city). They do sell jocoque but it's pretty runny. We slurp it like soup and eat it with eggs cooked with jalapenos, and fresh tortillas, of course! (Depending on where you live or if you live in a city, it can be hard to find the ingredients you're looking for.)
I would prefer the cucumber in small dices with onion and chile, nice version of "Tacos Arabes" , it's worth a try...
I am SOOO going to try this. Tacos Arabes was my go to meal in Puebla when I was pregnant. My husband would stop off at the stand on his way home and buy me one. He never told me what was in it, I think he was afraid I wouldn't eat it! He only said "try it, you'll like it" (that phrase tells you how old I am!) OHH, my mouth is watering. No place like Puebla for the best food EVER!!
Viva Acatlan,Puebla.
Que ricura tan fresca y sencilla.
I have waited forever for somebody to give arabes it’s due. I love you
your site ROCKS!!! I cant wait to try these!!!!
Rick, you made this sound like poetry..........
I am drooling so much right now.
can you use mexican creama insted of the cream that goes with it
Sooooooo helpful 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼 ty!
Taco Tuesday already, 🐛 oh yes!🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝
What a cheap and quick dinner idea!
Great video and channel!
Tacos Arabes were created by Lebanon refugees that immigrate to Mexico after WW I. That explains why the Taco Arabe is very similar to shawarma.
I’ve never had this tacos I wonder we’ll they might sell them in SoCal
looks tasty! I've tried tacos arabes in Puebla and wondered about their origins. Rick, do you know how to recreate the tasty corn tortillas in Mexico? Their tortillas are like the rice in sushi, in that oftentimes they are the most important part if the dish. I have never had a tastier tortilla than when I was in Mexico. Maybe their ancient corn strains are in there. I've used a bunch of masa mixes and they just dont have that magic that the Mexican ones have. If you have recreated it, I'd love to see a taco tuesday on the most important part of the taco--the corn tortilla.
+herrerabrew There's different kinds of corn tortillas in Mexico. We were just comparing the local tortillerias the other day and there are differences from one to another. Some use only corn flour, while others mix corn flour with corn (treated with lime). The ones that use only corn flour make thinner tortillas, so you get more per kilo.
+Loraine Spencer I would love to go to Mexico, and buy some corn flour to bring back here so that I can have good tortillas made fresh every morning. I don't know if that's legal though
I don't know where you live but you can buy Maseca all over the US. If it's not in your local grocery store, do you have a Mexican store nearby? I'm not sure, but if you live near the border of Mexico, you probably can bring Mexican flour back. They don't want you to bring meat, cheese, fruits and vegetables. But things like cookies are okay, so you can probably bring flour. Next time I cross the border I'll ask to be sure! They might say no because it could contain bugs, though.
+Loraine Spencer yeah ive tried maseca, I live in los angeles so yeah theres a lot of mexican stores. to me maseca is just not the same. ill look into that next time as well.
It's the fresh lard added
I'm trying these
This is kinda like pork shoulder gyros .
how cool! Go Rick!
Hot cucumber!? NOO RICK Noooooo!!!
Yeah, he lost me at the addition of warm cucumber. But I've never been to Puebla or had this taco so maybe I'd like it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I love it...yummy
If i makes tacos and they look nothing like tacos from other pueblos, does that mean its not a taco but a mimic? Of course not, so what if he makes them a little different. Everybody adds their own twist to it. So pizza in the US isn't pizza because it doesn't follow the same process or ingredients as the Italians?
PS I'm mexican too but cut the shit and give him props man.
Arabs usually don't eat pork.
Their loss
@@rwalonzo Funny how Xtians reject leading the life Jesus led. He would never have eaten pork.
Nothing like re thinking your recipes to make them vegan!
Pastor döner
Yeah... Tacos al pastor is the signature taco of CDMX, not Puebla. Sorry, Rick.
Son tacos árabes no al pastor
The recipe shows nutmeg under the instructions but nutmeg is not listed under the ingredients. :-(
Surley it was not originally pork,arab tacos.Maybe Lamb.
John Archer , Lebanese we’re majorly Catholic and not Muslim. So it’s not unreasonable to say they were using pork
jocoque looks like sour cream
How big is jocoque?
My dear God.. .Thats not Tacos Árabes or Al Pastor !!!.. and w/flour tortilla ??? (!!!!!!!!)
And it looks like a “raw” unheated flour tortilla at that!! Hahaha😂🤣. Gotta toast it up at the very least
My only complaint is that you don't properly explain what the word "Arabes" means though I would happily make this dish for my personal indulgence.
Arabian
@@carloswindbayfast6777 Gracias! :)
haha nice variation but the cucumber is way off, I am from Puebla and those would not be called tacos arabes at all. nice try though..
I sensed some BS lol its for sure not Arab either cause am arab lol
I don’t like cucumbers nor onions, yuck 🤮.
I lived in Puebla, and never once had warm cucumbers in tacos árabes. Never. It's pork with parsley and oregano, with onion, and chipotle salsa served in a thick flour tortilla, almost like pita. No way is this the way they are made.
Thanks for your dumb reply, Gringo Mc"I lived in Mexico"Potatoson
big deal...sure his sources are more varied than yours...he's been going there over 20 years!
this are not even close to the real tacos arabes... the real ones don't have cucumber it's only the meat and the sauce is Chipotle based some places add cheese to the tacos but that's it , no cucumbers or onions
Pues los tacos árabes se comen en todo México, y estoy seguro que son diferentes en cada lugar, así que decir que no son los reales, es bastante subjetivo =) saludos.
My family is from puebla and minus the spit used everything in this video is accurate. This guy is the real deal.
make ylur own channel since youre such an expert
Did this guy say marinade ?? It’s called seasoning. white boy wants to be Mexican so bad
That boy has the Azteca eagle given
Méxican government who praises the culture of the country , and he Is a máster in méxican cuisine
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