Cinco de Mayo Recipes To Get The Fiesta Started

🌮 The BEST 25 Mexican-inspired beef, chicken, pork, seafood, vegetarian, chips & salsa, and drinks RECIPES to ensure that your Cinco de Mayo tastes better than ever before! 🎉

Beef

🌮🥗💃 My Layered Taco Salad Recipe is a classic taco salad that everyone LOVES, it’s EASY, and it’s ready in 20 minutes! There’s ground beef, refried beans, red peppers, tortilla chips, cheese, lettuce, and tomatoes!

🥩🌮💃 My Easy Carne Asada Tacos recipe rivals your favorite restaurant! Tender juicy beef is seasoned to perfection and topped with pico de gallo and salsa, making these carne asada tacos INCREDIBLE!

Craving taquitos? 🌮🎉🧀 Make these EASY Baked Cheese and Beef Taquitos made with seasoned ground beef, melted cheese, cream cheese, sour cream, salsa, and baked to crispy perfection! Family friendly, picky-eater approved, and PERFECT for busy weeknight dinners, game day events or parties!

Learn how to make 🌮🎉🧀 Beef Birria in a Slow Cooker that rivals a Mexican restaurant! Beef simmers in a chile-based broth which infuses it with smoky flavor and makes it incredibly tender! Use the birria to make the BEST birria tacos or quesabirria tacos. Each taco is stuffed with juicy beef, melty cheese, onions, fresh cilantro and dipped in chile broth. Truly the most unforgettable tacos of your life!

Taco-Stuffed Avocados 🥑 Like avocados? Then you are going to LOVE these taco STUFFED avocados with ground beef, CHEESE, and more! An EASY low carb recipes that’s ready in 15 minutes and perfect for busy weeknights!

Chicken

Salsa Verde Chicken Enchiladas 🍋‍🟩 EASY juicy enchiladas with so much flavor from the salsa verde and TONS of melted CHEESE! Ready in 30 minutes, are made with just a handful of ingredients, and will be an instant family favorite!

Easy 20-Minute Chicken Tinga Tacos 🍗🌶️🌮 FAST, super easy, and the super juicy chicken has AUTHENTIC smoky chipotle FLAVOR! When you’re craving tacos, these are the tacos to make!

🌮🧀🥑 Make the BEST tasting Creamy Chicken Taquitos at home that rival a Mexican restaurant in just 30 minutes with a handful of common ingredients! Crispy and crunchy on the outside, warm melted cheese and seasoned chicken on the inside, these will be a hit at your next fiesta or casual get-together! Instructions provided to bake, air fry, or fry so you’re set to make this EASY recipe!

🥑 15-Minute Salsa Verde Chicken with Avocado is a Fast, EASY, one-skillet recipe! Juicy chicken with salsa verde, lime juice, cilantro, and creamy avocado provides so much Mexican-inspired FLAVOR for a filling meal the whole family will LOVE! This high protein, 5-ingredient recipe is perfect for busy weeknights and meal prepping!

20-Minute Baked Lime Cilantro Chicken Breasts 🍋‍🟩🌿 Super juicy, EASY, tender chicken that’s ready in 20 minutes and made on ONE sheet pan!! Bursting with robust Mexican-inspired lime cilantro flavors that will make this an automatic family FAVORITE!

25-Minute Sheet Pan Chicken Fajitas 🌶️ EASY, ready in no time, tastes AUTHENTIC, and made on ONE sheet pan to keep things simple – especially on busy nights!

Pork

Tacos Al Pastor — Learn to make this staple Mexican recipe that includes thinly sliced pieces of pork marinated in a tangy, sweet pineapple sauce AT HOME! Juicy, flavorful, tender pork served in tortillas with onions, cilantro, lime juice, and salsa! You’ll want every night to be taco night!

Seafood

🍤🥑🍅 This Mexican shrimp cocktail recipe combines chilled shrimp, tomatoes, cucumber, onion, jalapeño, and creamy avocado in a tomato-based sauce, along with a bit of Mexican hot sauce for some kick! It’s perfect for entertaining or as a no-cook lunch, snack, or dinner, especially when it’s too hot to cook!

Sheet Pan Shrimp Fajitas 🍤 EASY, ready in 30 minutes, tastes AUTHENTIC, and made on ONE sheet pan to keep things simple – especially on busy nights!! You don’t need to go out to a Mexican restaurant when you can make fajitas this GOOD and healthier at home!

Vegetarian

Loaded Vegetarian Burritos 🌯 HEALTHY Mexican comfort food that’s loaded with black beans, rice, and more before being topped with salsa and CHEESE! 🧀You’ll never miss the meat in these EASY burritos that you can make-ahead and are freezer-friendly!

Cauliflower Tinga Tacos with Avocado Crema 🌮 Roasted cauliflower is drenched in a smoky, perfectly spicy chipotle sauce, then folded into corn tortillas, cheese is added, and baked to crispy perfection! A bright avocado crema sauce is the finishing touch! Naturally gluten-free vegetarian food never tasted so AMAZING! You’ll never miss the meat in these healthy tacos!

🍚🫘 My Mexican Rice and Black Beans Medley is hearty enough to be a meal or makes a FANTASTIC side dish with loads of textures in every bite! It’s a super FLEXIBLE recipe that’s HEALTHY and makes a big batch for planned leftovers!

🍠 This Mexican Sweet Potato Bowl is a HEALTHY and EASY alternative to a salad! Loaded with Mexican-inspired ingredients and topped with a light lime-cumin vinaigrette, it’s ready in 20 minutes and perfect for MEAL PREPPING!

Chips and Salsas

Homemade Baked Tortilla Chips 💛😋 Making tortilla chips at home using corn tortillas is FAST and EASY! Ready in just 20 minutes. Perfect for salsa, guac, or anytime you need tortilla chips!

🍅🎉💃🏼 My Quick & Easy Blender Salsa recipe is FAST, EASY, and will teach you how to make salsa at home in just a few minutes in the blender, so you’ll never run out! It tastes just like that addictively amazing salsa that your favorite Mexican restaurant serves alongside a basket of warm tortilla chips. Get ready to DIG IN and impress your friends and family with this restaurant-style blender salsa recipe!

Easy Pineapple Salsa 🍍🍅 This savory pineapple salsa recipe is made with frozen pineapple chunks, bell peppers, Roma tomatoes, red onion, cilantro, and lime juice! It’s so quick to make and pairs well with grilled chicken, tacos, fish, and more!

The Best Peach Mango Salsa 🍑🥭 A savory-sweet fruit salsa that’s made with fresh peaches, mango, corn, cilantro, and lime! A finely diced jalapeño adds just the right amount of heat! Fast, EASY, and tastes a million times better than anything store-bought!

Drinks

Fresh Homemade 3-Ingredient Margaritas — 🍋‍🟩💚 Learn how to make a margarita with just three natural ingredients! Nothing fake, neon green, and no sugary chemicals. This is the best homemade margarita recipe I’ve tried and it’s the easiest!

Beer Margaritas 🍺 Summer tastes better with a pitcher of these delightful and refreshing beer margaritas are made with Corona, tequila, triple sec, lime juice, agave, and a sugared (or salted) rim! Cheers to beer-garitas!

☀️🍒 The BEST Vacation Vibes Tequila Sunrise recipe, this cocktail is not only pretty to look at but is also refreshing and nostalgic. The grenadine sweetens it up enough that you may not even notice that it packs quite a punch!

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