An ever growing list of Cinco de Mayo recipes!
Still working on your menu for Cinco de Mayo? Hopefully, this list of Cinco de Mayo recipes will tempt you to add a couple more dishes. The spiciness and the flavors in these recipes will have your guests dancing in the kitchen.
[Note: A few more ideas have been added since 2022]
Breakfast
Breakfast Tacos – Eggs, Chorizo, Guacamole and Red Chile (not shown)
Green Chile Cornbread Pancakes (not shown)
Starters
Sweet and Spicy Pepitas (not shown)
Red Chile Pecans (not shown)
Enchiladas
Beef and Chorizo Enchiladas with Red Chile (not shown)
Carne Adovada Enchiladas (not shown)
Main Dishes with Meat
Red Chile Chicken Tamales and Green Chile Chicken Tamales (not shown)
Pollo Chile Verde (not shown)
Vegetarian Mains
Crepes with Green Chile, Pinon and Queso Fresco (not shown)
Red Chile Cheese Tamales (not shown)
Tacos & Tamales
Grilled Portabello Tacos with Red Chile-Yogurt Sauce (not shown)
Red Chile Cheese Tamales (not shown)
Bean Tostada (Black bean, Pinto beans or Bolita Beans) (not shown)
Soups and Stews
Calabacitas Chowder (not shown)
Posole with Mexican Chorizo and Mushrooms (not shown)
Beef and Red Chile Posole (not shown)
Vegetable Sides
Yellow Squash with Red Chile Peppers (not shown)
Desserts and Sweets
Red Chile Strawberry Jam (not shown)
Parting Shot
In April, Bobby and I did a road trip exploring SE Arizona. One of the areas that we explored was the San Pedro River valley near Sierra Vista, AZ. In a few of my next posts, I will be sharing some of the scenery and food that we experienced. Since Cinco de Mayo is a Mexican celebration, I’m leaving you with shot looking back at the mountains just across the Arizona border into the Sonora State of Mexico. These mountains are the headwaters of the San Pedro River, a river that flows north from Mexico and into the Gila River north of Tucson, AZ.
The round up just keeps getting bigger and we keep on finding more delicious options to try. Tamales for sure is on the list for this upcoming week. Wishing you a very safe and restful Cinco de Mayo weekend.
hope you had a great one! wow so many recipes. is it a public holiday in mexico? love that photo of the mountains.
It was fun! Sip on tequilla, ate pica de gallo and chips and had spinach enchiladas for dinner. I’m not sure if it’s a public holiday in Mexico, but it is celebrated in many Latin American countries and some places here in the southwest US. New Mexico borders with Mexico so we celebrate here, even though it’s not officially a holiday. Cheers, MJ
Definitely the best list of Cinco de Mayo appropriate foods going. Thanks!
Happy Cinco de Mayo MJ! What an amazing menu to choose from! I would enjoy a bite of each please, a girl can dream, ha! Looking forward to your Arizona posts!
MJ, you’ve given us such a great collection of Cinco de Mayo recipes. We’ll be having a Cinco de Mayo inspired dinner tomorrow which will include more than one of your recipes. Great shot of the San Pedro river valley. I’ll look forward to your upcoming post from your adventures in AZ. Enjoy the festivities tomorrow.
I want to come to your Cinco de Mayo party, MJ!! I know you’d have the best spread of delicious food!
You got me drooling.. What an awesome round up.. Every dish is exceptional ♥️
Love when people dance in my kitchen; will create the menu with your support ! 🙂
Mexican food is a rather new discovery for us, but we love it!! The kids go crazy for any kind of tacos or enchiladas and I love the spiciness and the extensive use of beans. 🙂 A mouthwatering collection!
I must do some research into this holiday? We don’t celebrate it here. cheers
Everything looks so fantastic I can’t stop thinking it’s an extremely precious list to keep for any celebration! I might reconsider next Christmas’s menu theme! All those starters and tacos and tostadas would be perfect (we love serving finger food or anything easily eaten without a “proper” table). Everything looks amazing, but I’ll start with pumpkin seeds. Thank you for reminding me I bought a big bag recently thinking of you and your spicy pepitas… I hope I’ll remember now.
(By the way, I wonder if Cinco de Mayo is celebrated in the US by many people who don’t have Mexican origins… it seems to be a very famous celebration!).
MJ, can’t wait to share this post. One needs to look no further than here to find the perfect recipes for their Cinco de Mayo celebration. Arizona is just gorgeous. Did you see any wild horses… Just pinned!
MJ, these will be good all month! What a great line up for the green chile lovers out there like us. 🙂
Glad to see this list updated! SO many good choices, so little time. 🙂 Good thing there are 31 days in May!
Anyone wanting ideas for what to make for Cinco de Mayo, certainly has stopped at the right place. You have given a real smorgasbord of possibilities.
What an awesome lineup of recipes. I’m pretty sure I love them all. 🙂 I really look forward to your scenery shots from SE Arizona. As avid birdwatchers, we’ve spent quite a bit of time in that area. I feel like I’ve stood in that very spot where you’ve taken this photo. Did you drive up one of the canyons?
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Awesome collection of recipes. Love to try all of them. Everything looks yummy. Looking forward to see your pics from Arizona. 🙂
Thanks so much Ritu!
All those dishes look so delicious…. I can imagine not leaving the table for the whole day and half of the night! Luckily I don’t celebrate cinco de mayo and don’t have to choose from all those delicious dishes because I would be in trouble… I would want to cook at least 70% of all that!
I hope you have had a wonderful time and am looking forward to seeing more of your holiday photographs (I’m sure you have taken wonderful ones!).
Thanks Sissi! Thank goodness I make NM cuisine all of the time, so when Cinco de Mayo comes up, I don’t have to go overboard, except if we have a party. 🙂
Well if I was doing a CInquo de Mayo meal (sorry I am not lol) you would definitely be my go to source, you have so many amazing and perfect recipes for it! Cannot wait to see more Arizona pics!
Thanks so much Evelyne!
wow..that’s an impressive collection of recipes for Cinco de Mayo! Excellent work, MJ.
Thanks Angie!
Next year I’m going to plan a Cinco de Mayo party. It will be Saturday night and I’ve saved all the recipes I want to serve at my party. If I start planning now, I just might be ready by next year. 🙂
Oh that’s right! Cinco de Mayo will be on Saturday night! YAY! I hope you do remember this post. Keep in handy. And yes, it might take you a year just to get all of the ingredients. 🙂 Thanks Maureen!
I spent a few years in NM and I really love the food. It is very different from our families Mexican food. Hubby does not like his hot. Not all Mexicans do. I make our enchilada sauce and he refuses to eat enchiladas out. I have to make at least 18 to 24 at a time and he will only share a couple with me LOL.
I am fortunate that he loves my cooking.
I like your recipe for enchilada sauce but I will never be able to make it (sigh). You
do have many recipes I would love to try though and I am sure they will be a hit. Thanks.
We are so fortunate when our husbands love our cooking! 🙂 Thanks so much for your nice comments and hope you do find some recipes that both you and your husband can enjoy.
We are going out to dinner this Friday but that Chocolate Pudding deserves to be made this weekend!
Are you eating Mexican on Friday? I’m sure where you are that there are lots of great Mexican restaurants. That should be fun! The pudding is the husband’s favorite!
Great ideas and great shot from your trip. Can’t wait to hear about it.
Thanks Debra!
I knew you’d be my go-to source for Cinco de Mayo! I’m going to start at the desserts and make my way up!
You’re my kind of lady Liz! I love starting with dessert. 🙂
If you had a restaurant it would be hard to pick! Everything looks so tasty for a Cinco de Mayo feast! Look forward to your pics from Arizona.
Thanks Jan! Now I have to pick out a couple for tomorrow. 🙂
Love this MJ! Just one stop shopping right here in your site for everything you may possibly ever want to make for a delicious Cinco De Mayo feast. We have our eyes on the tamales!!! Sharing of course!
Thanks so much! I love tamales and love making them as well. They aren’t as hard as some people think, especially when you cheat and use my method. 🙂
Terrific collection of recipes! Everything one needs for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. And snacks. 🙂 Can’t wait to hear more about your trip!
Thanks John! I hope I can get the trip posts together. We did so many things and took so many pics. You know how that is. 🙂
What a phenomenal collection of recipes. I will take one of each please. Can’t wait to spend a little while and peruse all of them. Sounds like a fun road trip and I loved that parting shot.
Thanks so much Abbe! To be honest it was hard eliminating some links. WE love NM food. 🙂