Every night can be Mexican night with these 19 Easy Mexican Recipes! Everything from fajitas to guacamole, tacos to mole and a whole lot more. These simple crowdpleasers are perfect for busy weeknights and weekend entertaining alike.
Easy Mexican Recipes
What’s your favourite cuisine? I always find this a difficult question to answer – I love so many different cuisines: Greek, Middle Eastern, Italian and Spanish… But one of my all time favourites has to be Mexican food!
Over the years I have created many delicious and easy peasy versions of Mexican classics – as well as a few Tex Mex dishes (I have an obsession with chilli con carne) and some Mexican fusion food too (Fajita pasta, I’m talking to you!).
Here I’ve pulled together 19 of my all time favourite Mexican inspired recipes to share with you. I’m not promising authenticity (because when a traditional mole sauce takes a day to make, who has time for authenticity?!), but each of these recipes is easy, delicious and family friendly – which are the most important criteria for dinner IMHO!
For each recipe, I’ve included a link to the recipe, plus prep times, cook times and total times, so you can quickly and easily see which recipe suits your needs and the time available.
If you make one of these recipes (or, even better, discover a new family favourite!) I’d love to hear from you. Let me know in the comments below or via social media. I’m on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. ?
Easy Sheet Pan Chicken Fajitas
Get the recipe => Easy Sheet Pan Chicken Fajitas
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 20 minutes
Total time: 30 minutes
Easy Roasted Mexican Corn on the Cob (Vegan)
Get the recipe => Easy Roasted Mexican Corn on the Cob (Vegan)
Prep Time: 5 minutes
Cook Time: 15 minutes
Total time: 20 minutes
Easy One Pot Mexican Rice with Black Beans and Corn (Vegan)
Get the recipe => Easy One Pot Mexican Rice with Black Beans and Corn (Vegan)
Prep Time: 5 minutes
Cook Time: 25 minutes
Total time: 30 minutes
Easy Vegetable Fajitas
Get the recipe => Easy Vegetable Fajitas
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 10 minutes
Total time: 20 minutes
Mexican Chicken Traybake
Get the recipe => Mexican Chicken Traybake
Prep Time: 15 minutes
Cook Time: 45 minutes
Total time: 1 hour
Homemade Chunky Guacamole
Get the recipe => Homemade Chunky Guacamole
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Total time: 10 minutes
Easy Beef Enchiladas
Get the recipe => Easy Beef Enchiladas
Prep Time: 5 minutes
Cook Time: 25 minutes
Total time: 30 minutes
Easy One Pot Chicken Fajita Pasta Bake
Get the recipe => Easy One Pot Chicken Fajita Pasta Bake
Prep Time: 5 minutes
Cook Time: 25 minutes
Total time: 30 minutes
Easy Chicken Mole
Get the recipe => Easy Chicken Mole
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 35 minutes
Total time: 45 minutes
Mexican Pulled Pork Tacos
Get the recipe => Mexican Pulled Pork Tacos
Prep Time: 15 minutes
Cook Time: 5 hours
Total time: 5 hours 15 minutes
Mexican Roasted Sweet Potato Cubes (Vegan)
Get the recipe => Mexican Roasted Sweet Potato Cubes (Vegan)
Prep Time: 5 minutes
Cook Time: 20 minutes
Total time: 25 minutes
Mexican Spiced Cauliflower Rice
Get the recipe => Mexican Spiced Cauliflower Rice
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 15 minutes
Total time: 25 minutes
Lamb Tacos with Avocado, Feta and Pomegranate
Get the recipe => Lamb Tacos with Avocado, Feta and Pomegranate
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 10 minutes
Total time: 20 minutes
Pork and Sweet Potato Chilli Con Carne
Get the recipe => Pork and Sweet Potato Chilli Con Carne
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 10 minutes
Total time: 30 minutes
Spicy Mexican Lamb Stew & Easy Peasy Salsa
Get the recipe => Spicy Mexican Lamb Stew & Easy Peasy Salsa
Prep Time: 15 minutes
Cook Time: 1 hour 30 minutes
Total time: 1 hour 45 minutes
Chicken Chilli Con Carne
Get the recipe => Chicken Chilli Con Carne
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 10 minutes
Total time: 30 minutes
5 Minute Mexican Salad (Vegan)
Get the recipe => 5 Minute Mexican Salad (Vegan)
Prep Time: 5 minutes
Total time: 5 minutes
Homemade Chicken Fajitas
Get the recipe => Homemade Chicken Fajitas
Prep Time: 5 minutes
Cook Time: 10 minutes
Total time: 15 minutes
Easy Peasy Salsa Fresca (Pico de Gallo)
Get the recipe => Easy Peasy Salsa Fresca (Pico de Gallo)
Prep Time: 5 minutes
Total time: 5 minutes
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Michelle Frank | Flipped-Out Food says
As far as favorite cuisines are concerned, I ping-pong from Mexican to pan-Asian. This roundup has me craving Mexican food, though—perfect timing for Cinco de Mayo! Thanks for bringing to #CookBlogShare!
Eb Gargano says
Thanks Michelle! 🙂
Jacqui Bellefontaine says
wow what a fabulous collection I have a feeling I shall be making some of these. as for my favourite cuisine I just can not say I change my mind too often. But Mexican is definitely my eldest fav since he worked in a Mexican restaurant in sydney. Me I’m a chilli wimp
Eb Gargano says
Yay! So pleased you liked my collection 🙂 I must confess, I am a bit of a chilli wimp too and my kids don’t like their food too hot either, so I tend to focus on getting lots of spice into my Mexican food, but tone down the chilli. It’s easy for my hubby – who does like hot food to add a bit of extra chilli to his portion at the dinner table – so win-win all round 😀 Eb x
Helen - Cooking with my kids says
Mexican wouldn’t have sprung to mind if you asked me for my favourite cuisine (i’d probably say Chinese), but when I see it all together, i’m reminded of how delicious Mexican dishes are. Now I just need to get my kids on board – they cried that last time I gave them enchiladas and fajitas! #cookblogshare
Eb Gargano says
Oh no! Why? Did they not like the spicyness??? My kids absolutely adore fajitas and enchiladas now (they are 8 and 10), but it did take them a while. I did used to make them very mild, but now they can handle sort of medium-ish. I use chilli flakes so it’s really easy to get the ‘hotness’ exactly right. Hope you manage to find a way to persuade them 😀 Eb x
Monika Dabrowski says
What an amazingly colourful collection, Mexican food is one of my favourite, I could eat chicken fajitas and salsa constantly. All these dishes look so appetising!
Eb Gargano says
Thanks Monika – you know me and how I love colourful food 😀 I am so with you on the eating chicken fajitas constantly – but I’d swap the salsa for guacamole…. I am totally obsessed with the stuff!! Eb x
Jenny Walters says
I love mexican food and what a fabulous collection this is! Something for absolutely everyone. I am a complete wimp too I’m afraid but adore the flavours so everyone has to dumb down!
Eb Gargano says
Thanks Jenny – so glad you like these recipes 😀 Eb x
Cat | Curly's Cooking says
Mexican and Asian are definitely me favourites. This round up has so many delicious looking Mexican recipes!
Eb Gargano says
Thanks Cat! So pleased you like the recipes 🙂 Eb x
Imran Malik says
Thanks for this post. I have been having Mexican food for years but somehow I can’t remember all the recipes when meal planning. Great list!
Eb Gargano says
Glad you like it and are finding it useful… it’s so helpful to have all the recipes in one place, isn’t it? Eb 🙂