Hawaiian Pulled Pork Tacos with Tropical BBQ Aioli
These Hawaiian pulled pork tacos with tropical BBQ aioli bring the flavors of Hawaii to your own kitchen table.
Ingredients
- 12 4-inch corn tortillas
- ¾ pound pulled pork
Slaw
- ¼ head green cabbage chopped
- ½ cup shredded carrots
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ½ medium lime juiced
- 1 tablespoon Hawaiian BBQ aioli see below
Hawaiian BBQ Aioli
- ½ cup light mayo
- 2 tablespoons chipotle puree
- 1½ teaspoons pineapple juice
- 1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
- ½ medium lime juiced
- 1 pinch salt
Instructions
- Make the slaw. Combine cabbage, carrots, lime juice, and salt in a bowl and toss well. Let this sit while you make the aioli, then add a spoonful of the aioli to the slaw and toss to combine.
- Make the aioli. In a small bowl, whisk together the mayo, chipotle puree, pineapple juice, Worcestershire, lime juice, and salt. Taste and adjust as needed (see Expert Tips section or recipe card notes for details).
- Heat the pork. In a large frying pan, warm the pork over medium heat for about 5 minutes. Add a splash of pineapple juice and lime juice for extra flavor at the end of cooking and mix to combine well.
- Assemble and serve. To a warm tortilla, add slaw on the bottom, then pork, and finally drizzle with aioli. Enjoy!
Notes
Chipotle puree - Grab a can of chipotles in adobo from the store and puree the whole thing in a food processor! It's a quick and easy way to add chipotle flavor to anything. Any that you don't use for this recipe can be stored in the fridge for a few weeks.
Aioli - If your aioli tastes a little too spicy, add a dash more Worcestershire and/or pineapple juice to balance the flavors. The sauce should be equal parts sweet, smoky, and spicy.
Slaw - Adding a spoonful of aioli to the slaw helps give it some extra moisture and flavor to tie the dish together. This recipe makes plenty of aioli to account for this, but you can easily 1.5x or 2x the aioli recipe if you love saucy tacos and don’t want to worry about running out.
Tortillas - Taco night tastes so much better with homemade tortillas! If you’re adventurous enough to try making them yourself, we recommend investing in a cast iron tortilla press and high quality masa harina.
Nutrition
Serving: 1taco | Calories: 110kcal | Carbohydrates: 15g | Protein: 9g | Fat: 2g | Saturated Fat: 1g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 1g | Trans Fat: 0.1g | Cholesterol: 19mg | Sodium: 143mg | Potassium: 232mg | Fiber: 3g | Sugar: 2g | Vitamin A: 913IU | Vitamin C: 9mg | Calcium: 35mg | Iron: 1mg
