Cinco de Mayo Recipes from Apps to Dessert!
May 5, Cinco de Mayo is coming up
Be festive and serve a Mexican inspired meal!
These recipes are creative twists on traditional Tex-Mex favorites,
nachos, tacos, burritos, and enchiladas
Start the party with a Skinny Margarita,
Tequila with a dash of Triple Sec and lime juice over ice
A Fry-Tot-To is a show stopper and creates an instant fiesta!
Sausage & Corn Queso is poured over Tater Tot potatoes
and surrounded by french fries
Place individual cups of salsa
garnished with sour cream and grated cheese
on a board with tortilla or corn chips
for a Mexican style charcuterie board
Slow Cooker Loaded Taco Dip is simply taco seasoned ground beef
with chopped sweet peppers, onions, refried beans and cheese
Taco Bread Boat can be served as an appetizer or main dish
Go with a Taco Lettuce Crunch Wrap if you want to go lighter
Here’s a twist on enchiladas, Enchilada Rice Casserole
has all the flavors of enchiladas baked with rice in a dish
We love Taco Salad and we have it regularly
but these Chicken Fajita Salad Bowls are really good too,
especially served with a Creamy Corn Muffin on the side
Queso is a great topping for burritos
Queso Topped Burritos are filled with taco meat, corn, black beans,
peppers, and onions and a little enchilada sauce
Quesadillas can be made infinite number of ways,
and they don’t always have to be filled with Mexican ingredients
I love to make quesadillas with a little of this and a little of that
This Asparagus, Bacon, Bleu and Corn Quesadilla was so good,
I used the same ingredients a few nights later for a flatbread
Chicken, Corn & Black Bean Lasagna
starts out with slow cooking the chicken in green enchilada sauce,
then assembling the lasagna with layers of tortillas,
chicken mixed with corn and black beans,
more sauce and cheese
Finish your meal with a
Sombrero Cookie or a Strawberry Margarita Dessert Taco!
Sombrero Cookies are sugar cookies
topped with a gum drop, icing and sprinkles
Strawberry Margarita Dessert Tacos have a pecan lace cookie shell
filled with a creamy margarita filling,
garnished with strawberries and coconut
Have a great Cinco de Mayo!!
I will be joining these fabulous parties and blogs:
Sundays on Silverado/ Happiness is Homemade
What’s for Dinner / Love Your Creativity
Between Naps on the Porch / Turn About Tuesday
Wednesday Linky Party / Karin’s Cottage Linky Party / Creative Crafts
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So many delicious party foods! Those taco bread boats look particularly great.
Thanks Angie, we love Tex-Mex!
Lots of great suggestions. I particularly love your creative desserts.
Thank you Bernadette, have a great week!
Oh yum! Love the idea of individual dip cups! Brilliant. We eat a lot of quesadillas, they are my go-to meal when I haven’t thought about dinner until time to make it.
Thanks Carole, aren’t quesadillas a great way to make something from whatever you have on hand, I always keep tortillas in my pantry or fridge~
I want to go to your house for a party! I’ll bring the tequila!
haha, come on over!
Great ideas – the dessert tacos made my mouth water!! YUM
Thanks Patti!
I love Mexican food and always end up eating it on May . . 6th – because I forget about Cinco de Mayo! It sneaks up on me for some reason – thanks for the heads up and all the good ideas.
Thanks Leslie Anne, enjoy!
Jenna, what a delicious array of Cinco de Mayo dishes. I love the idea of a Mexican charcuterie board and the Taco Bread Boats look delicious! Thank you for sharing all of these amazing recipes. I will share this post with my DIL, they love Mexican food and have it several times per week!
Thank you Pam, my group loves Mexican too. Have a great week!
Great ideas for a Tex-Mex fiesta! On St. Patrick’s Day, everyone is Irish, but on Cinco de Mayo, everyone is Mexican. 🇲🇽😉 I love the little sombreros!😍
Ha ha! Thanks Linda!
Olé Jenna, so many tasty recipes! It’s hard to believe we’ll be turning the calendar page to May in less than two weeks! ♥
I know, I can’t believe how fast April has flown by!
Oh, this looks like such a fun and colorful holiday to celebrate – I wish we celebrated it up here! At the least, I could make some of those Tex Mex recipes and pretend, right? Those sombrero cookies look so good and I love love margaritas. Yum. Happy cinco-de mayo to you!
Yes, Kim have a margarita and make some Mexican food! Olé!!!
Love your outside and inside Cinco de Mayo tables, and your outside view too! Your recipes look amazing!! – Patty
Thanks so much Patty!
Let the party start with such delicious recipes!
Be sure to wear a hat!
Your desserts reminded me of a recipe I used to make, strawberry nachos. I might have to make them again! I can no longer eat a lot of spicy or dairy but your recipes always look so yummy. 😋
Strawberry nachos, yum, tell me more!!!
I will have to find the recipe and send it to you! Super easy and so good! 🍓
I found my old recipe but I don’t have your email address so I looked on Pinterest and found one close to mine with OurBestBites.com called Strawberry and Chocolate Nachos. Look forward to hearing what you think!
Thanks Jill, those sound really good, I wish I had some for breakfast!!
Jenna,
Wow, these recipes look awesome. Those dessert tacos are calling my name. Congratulations, you are being featured on TFT. I hope you stop by. https://www.eclecticredbarn.com/2024/05/cinco-de-mayo-recipes-on-tft.html
Hugs,
Bev
Thanks so much Bev, see you then!
These look so amazing, Jenna! What a great Cinco de Mayo! I’ll be featuring this at Thursday Favorite Things tomorrow. 🙂
Oops, didn’t mean to be Anonymous! 🙂
Pam
anartfulmom.com
Thank you so much Pam!