🍽️ Mexican Dinner Recipes
Discover authentic Mexican dinner recipes. Discover easy weeknight dinners and impressive weekend meals. From 30-minute pasta dishes to slow-cooked comfort food, find your next favorite dinner recipe.
Quick and Easy Mexican Chicken
This Mexican chicken recipe is simple yet flavorful. Seasoned chicken bakes under salsa and cheese. Serve over rice or noodles for an easy dinner.
Green Chile Stacked Enchiladas
For this green chile stacked enchiladas recipe, corn tortillas are layered with chicken, enchilada sauce, Monterey Jack, mozzarella, and green chiles.
Slow Cooker Taco Soup with Ranch Dressing Mix
This slow cooker taco soup will remind you of tacos.
Quesadilla Burgers
This quesadilla burgers recipe combines tortillas, cheese, hamburger patties, and a creamy Southwest sauce. Serve with sweet potato or green bean fries.
Healthy Mexican Chicken Bake
Chicken breasts are pan-fried and baked with salsa and cheese in this recipe for a quick and healthier Mexican-inspired chicken bake.
Fiesta Salsa
For this recipe, use a store-bought fiesta salsa mix to turn your ripe, juicy tomatoes (or canned ones if fresh aren't available) into a tasty salsa.
Tamale Pie with Chicken
A buttery tamale crust and topping holds a flavorful Mexican-inspired chicken filling in this savory pie that's worth the effort.
Tasty Lentil Tacos
This tasty lentil taco recipe is healthy, too. It combines onion, garlic, taco seasoning, lentils, broth, and salsa. Serve with your favorite toppings.
Easy Apple Enchilada Dessert
For this easy apple enchilada dessert recipe, flour tortillas are rolled around a creamy, apple pie filling, and topped with a buttery, sweet sauce.
Baked Taco Dip
This baked taco dip recipe features seasoned ground beef layered with cream cheese, salsa, and Cheddar cheese for an appetizer that can feed a crowd.
Taco Meat
This taco meat recipe is simply the best and makes a batch of seasoned ground beef in tomato sauce for use in burritos or other Mexican-style dishes.
Harvest Quesadillas
Pumpkin puree, apple, and brie cheese capture the best of fall in these slightly sweet harvest quesadillas.
Avocado Tacos
Using avocados for tacos is standard, but these seasoned avocados and onions on tortillas with cilantro and jalapeño sauce kick this recipe up a notch.
Instant Pot Salsa Chicken
This salsa chicken Instant Pot recipe uses frozen chicken breasts rubbed with taco seasoning, then cooked in salsa and broth for an easy Tex-Mex meal.
White Chicken Chili with Salsa
This white chicken chili with salsa recipe features tender chicken simmered in the slow cooker with great Northern beans, salsa, and pepper Jack cheese.
Simple Egg and Cheese Breakfast Quesadillas
These simple egg and cheese breakfast quesadillas filled with bell pepper and onion are easy to make ahead and can be warmed in a microwave or toaster oven.
Mexican Strawberry Agua Fresca
Strawberry agua fresca is a refreshing blend of juicy strawberries, sugar, and water, served chilled over ice for a deliciously fruity Mexican drink.
Mexican Atole
Atole is a popular Mexican hot drink that's thickened with masa harina, flavored with cinnamon, and sweetened with piloncillo or brown sugar.
Ranch Taco Soup
This taco soup recipe with ranch dressing and Rotel is a delicious, hearty bean and vegetable soup that cooks quickly for an easy weeknight dinner.
Authentic Mexican Hot Chocolate
Mexican hot chocolate is made by melting Mexican chocolate that contains sugar and cinnamon in warm milk for a richer, more intense chocolate flavor. Chile de arbol adds a touch of heat.
Easy Chicken Enchilada Soup
An easy family favorite, this pressure cooker enchilada soup is a hearty mix of beans, corn, tomatoes, and chiles with a Southwestern kick.
Enchiladas Verdes
Enchiladas verdes with shredded chicken in a homemade spicy tomatillo sauce; top with cilantro and cotija cheese for an incredibly delicious Mexican meal.
Vampiros Mexicanos (Mexican Vampires)
Vampiros Mexicanos is an authentic Mexican cocktail. It's easy to make by combining, in one glass, the best of Mexico: tequila and sangrita!
Mexican Chicken Tinga
Mexican chicken tinga, or tinga de pollo, is tender shredded chicken in a spicy chipotle-tomato sauce; serve on crunchy tostadas for a crowd favorite!