What Tacos árabes means
Tacos árabes is a Mexican main dish name of Spanish origin meaning "Arab tacos". It comes from Spanish taco + árabes (Arab). It is pronounced TAH-kos AH-rah-bes, and it is most associated with Puebla.
Lebanese and Iraqi immigrants in Puebla adapted shawarma to a wheat flatbread in the 1930s. Tacos al pastor are its descendant, with the meat swapped and chile added.
This is a site about what Mexican words mean, so there is no recipe here. For the name itself: The plated dishes, most named for a cooking method or a place. Cochinita pibil is pork cooked in a píib, the Maya earth oven. Barbacoa gave English the word barbecue. Chiles en nogada is named for the walnut sauce that covers it.
