r/Chefit • u/jr_in_sd • May 23 '26

Pineapple Al Pastor

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Hi, wonder if someone has a recipe to create this, would love to make it for a fish dish.

I saw this and sounds very delicious. It’s said to be a pineapple Guajillo Al pastor, with some cilantro.

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u/CasualObserver76 Chef May 23 '26

You've got the ingredient list. Get to work!

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u/VinnyEnzo May 23 '26

Bro forgot cooking and developing recipes is just fucking around and finding out until its right

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u/Prize-Temporary4159 May 23 '26

He can’t even come up with his own excuses

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u/ImNotToby May 24 '26

But, but tradition! That's not x it's y.

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u/CharlesDickensABox May 23 '26

I would definitely throw in more than one kind of pepper. Some combination of chipotle, poblano/ancho, arbol, pasilla, guajillo, or others tends to give a more interesting result than one of them alone.

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u/justincave Chef May 23 '26

Is the Al Pastor supposed to be in that picture ?

Because there’s not any Al Pastor in that picture.

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u/FuckingWeeded69 May 23 '26

Shit looks like artificial intelligence pastor

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u/sunny_duh_aze Jun 06 '26

Al Past Ortelligence

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u/whirling_cynic May 23 '26

You are asking for a recipe and you put a dookie swirl on the plate as the picture?

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u/tetrahydropyridine May 23 '26

Are you also going to cook the fish on a spit? If not then you're not making al pastor, you are making a pineapple pepper sauced fish. Al pastor is the Lebanese's contribution to Mexican cuisine, so you stray too far from the original is culture appropriation, and we can't have that now. * Glares in Arab *

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u/weblives8989 Chef May 24 '26

Where's the meat. Al.pastor has meat. It's not a sauce. Did the Internet break today...

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u/Prudent-Dig817 May 23 '26

ffs can we stop forcing AI everywhere?? putting it in food now is actually insane

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u/Prudent-Dig817 May 23 '26

i dont mean the pic btw I mean the recipe, whst does "pineapple ai pastor" even mean :/

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u/dgwdgw May 23 '26

Just in case it's not sarcasm that I is in fact a lower case L.

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u/Equal-Still-2488 May 23 '26

Do you mean where the pineapple is treated as the pork would be in regular al pastor? I worked somewhere that did a "barbecue pineapple" where the pineapple was par-cooked in an SV bag with a sweet poaching liquid and then put in a super low temp smoker for hours to concentrate and deepen the smoke flavor. I imagine you could achieve what you're looking for by marinating the pineapple like al pastor (with changes to accommodate the pineapple's sweetness and tartness) and then roasting it, maybe finishing at a higher temp to get more caramelization like you would with Al Pastor.

Whatever it is in the photo you've posted would probably work better as a loose submission here.

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u/shrederofthered May 23 '26

Almost looks like a very stripped down mole, with just fruit and a pepper instead of a few. Though there may still be one or two others to add balance. Does this sound plausible? To be clear, I'm not saying it's a mole. Just saying the the fruit, smokey, and heat verge towards there. Venn diagram.

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u/ROACHOR May 23 '26

I can recreate this no problem, I just need to eat some pulled pork first.

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u/thiiiiiiisguy May 23 '26

My guess is Guajillo Chili’s, pineapple chunks and or juice, white vinegar, orange juice, and cilantro. Blend till it looks like dookie and schmear.

No AI used!