Pork Tacos with Pineapple Cucumber Salsa

    Happy Cinco de Mayo! I made the most fabulous pork tacos for lunch! I'm not usually one to cook with jalapeno peppers but they make this pork really pop.  The cucumber in the salsa was the perfect cool down for the sweet heat of the caramelized pork as well as the spicy sriracha mayo. For the pork, I butchered a pork loin into pieces but it would have been so much easier to slice up some pork chops! This is definitely going to be one of my favorite meals to make!

Pork Tacos with Pineapple Cucumber Salsa

Ingredients:

- 2 pounds of pork loin, cut into thin strips

- 1 tablespoon of olive oil

- 1/2 diced red onion (you'll used the other 1/2 in the salsa)

- 1 diced jalapeno pepper, seeds and ribs removed

- 2 diced cloves of garlic or 1 heaping teaspoon of minced garlic

- 2 teaspoons of fish sauce

- 2 tablespoons of sugar

- 2 tablespoons of warm water

For the salsa:

- 1 cup of diced pineapple, I used fresh

- 1 cup of diced cucumber, seeds removed

- 1/2 diced red onion

- 1 diced roma tomato

- 1/2 cup chopped fresh cilantro

- the juice of one lime 

- dash of salt

For the sriracha mayo:

- 2 tablespoons of mayonnaise

- 1 tablespoon of sriracha hot sauce

Serve on warm flour tortillas

    Heat the olive oil in a large heavy pan over medium heat. Once hot, add the red onion, jalapeno, and garlic. Cook for a moment and let the onions sweat. Once they start to get translucent, add the fish sauce and mix well, Next, add the pork. In a small bowl, whisk together the sugar and warm water until the sugar is dissolved. Once the pork is mostly cooked and you don't see any more pink, turn up the heat to high and add the sugar water mixture. Stir once really well. It will be quite bubbly at first, leave it to cook for a few minutes. Then, the juices will clear, stir, and your pork will start to caramelize. Once it is starting to get golden brown, it is finished. Remove from the heat and serve with salsa and mayo.

    When making the salsa, add all salsa ingredients together and toss until combined. I like to make the salsa before I cook the pork. 

    Whisk the mayo and sriracha together to make the sauce. You can add a little water to make it a little thinner if you prefer. 

    Assemble tacos, serve with lime wedges, and enjoy!!

Beautiful Pineapple Salsa!