Chicken al Pastor is a variant of the more famous pork al pastor.

⭐Al Pastor (which means “shepherd style” in Spanish), is a popular pork dish in Central America where the pork is marinated in pineapple, chilies, achiote paste, cumin, and oregano, then stacked and vertically roasted on a spit that slowly turns with a pineapple on top that bastes the pork with its juices.

⭐The concept of Al Pastor was brought to Central Mexico by Lebanese immigrants in the early 1900s. They cooked their thin cuts of meat stacked together in a cone shape on a vertical rotisserie, known as shawarma, just like Greek gyros and Turkish doner kebab.

It is a dish that comes directly from a movie, which I have already mentioned: @themenufilm

The Third course of the dinner in the movie: Memory

▶There is an elderly woman in the room who just keeps drinking wine alone. She is chef Julian’s mother and he himself tells a sad anecdote from his childhood.

He narrates that when he was little, he witnessed the violence used by his drunken father against his mother, almost killing her by tying a shoelace around her neck.

The child intervened by injuring the parent in the leg with a pair of scissors stuck in his thigh.

All that pain is poured into Memory, a dish that includes:

▶ Smoked Bresse chicken thigh al pastor and tortillas with traditional masa

There are two elements: the infamous scissors embedded in the meat and a secret for each table of diners printed on the tortillas.

▶Bresse chicken is a true excellence of French tradition and is distinguished by its white plumage, blue legs, and red comb, I used a free-range chicken for what in Mexico is called Chicken al pastor.

If you want to find out more about the movie’s plot, I invite you to search for another recipe on the blog that is found in the film: