Pressure Cooker Pork “Al Pastor”

Skip to Recipe At its roots, al pastor style pork is basically Mexican shawarma.  The spit-grilled style of cooking the pork was brought to Mexico by Lebanese immigrants.  The rest is history.  Nowadays, tacos al pastor (which basically translates to “country-style tacos) are an ubiquitous taco truck staple. Traditionally, the method of cooking the al

Read more

Pressure Cooker Puerco Pibil

Skip to Recipe Puerco Pibil, also known as Cochinita Pibil, is Yucatan-style barbecued pork.  The name comes from the cooking method of the pork.  Traditionally, it’s cooked in a Mayan oven called a pib, a hole in the ground lined with hot stones.  My first exposure to puerco pibil was watching a Robert Rodriguez movie

Read more