Cinco de Mayo Recipes
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You’ve come to the right place if you’re looking for delicious Cinco de Mayo Recipes! With everything from guacamole, salsa, enchiladas, to fiery fajitas, Jo Cooks has all the recipes you need to throw your best Cinco de Mayo Celebration ever!
Kick off this holiday with one of our many fabulous Cinco De Mayo dishes and treat your family and friends to the tastes of Mexico at your table. Just fun to say isn’t it? Cinco De Mayo? Ok so we are having an “Ole kinda day”! We’re having some fun with this roundup of dishes and getting into the spirit of celebrating Cinco De Mayo on the 5th of May. We want you to have your own “Ole” kinda day so let’s get started. Have a Happy Cinco De Mayo!
Start With These Mexican Dips
Joe Montana's Touchdown Guacamole
Joe Montana's Touchdown Guacamole - Truly the best guacamole I've ever had, just amazing. Bold delicious flavors, just what you need to enjoy the game.
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Chile Con Queso
This Chile Con Queso recipe is delicious, spicy, silky, super cheesy and perfect for a crowd! It's the dip that you'll be asked for over and over again at all gatherings. It's also ready in only 25 minutes!
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Crockpot Queso Blanco Dip
Crockpot Queso Blanco Dip - super cheesy queso blanco dip with my favorite ingredient; bacon! Perfect snack or appetizer for the holidays.
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Homemade Salsa
Homemade Salsa with fresh ingredients and full of flavor, just like the one you're served at your favorite restaurant! This restaurant style salsa is made with roasted tomatoes and onions which enhances all the flavors. Delicious and simple!
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Baja Spinach Dip
Even if you are no fan of spinach, you will want to indulge in this incredibly delicious Baja Spinach Dip recipe. It's cheesy, it's spicy, it's phenomenal!
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More Appetizers
Mexican Street Corn Salad
This Mexican Street Corn Salad, also known as Esquites, is smoky, spicy, tangy and incredibly delicious. If you love the Mexican corn on the cob then you will love this version.
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Antojitos
Spicy, cheesy and creamy, wrapped in a baked tortilla make Antojitos the ultimate appetizer! They are loaded with cheese, bell peppers, and jalapeños and ready in 30 minutes! Don't let the jalapeños scare you away! - with the combination of gooey cheeses I promise you're going to become a number 1 fan!
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Avocado Shrimp Salsa
This Avocado Shrimp Salsa is the perfect appetizer using fresh and delicious ingredients. End result is bold flavors and one great salsa, ready in only 20 minutes! Great for parties, game day, or a fresh snack.
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Fajita Potato Bites
These Fajita Potato Bites are a must for your appetizer table! Made with potato slices baked to crisp perfection, then topped with sour cream, salsa, caramelized onions and peppers. Yum!
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Spicy Baked Mexican Chicken Eggrolls
These Spicy Baked Mexican Chicken Egg Rolls are a perfect appetizer! Forget about the fried restaurant version, these babies are just as good, baked and a loaded with tons flavor!
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Mains
Pork Carnitas
These Crispy Pork Carnitas are seriously bursting with flavor yet so simple to make! This is the meat you want for your tacos, burritos, sandwiches, you name it. It’s to die for!
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Taco Lasagna
This Taco Lasagna is saucy, cheesy and delicious. Try this fun twist on your traditional lasagna with lots of Mexican flavors, yet still an easy weeknight and family-friendly meal.
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Mexican Chicken and Rice Salad
Mexican Chicken and Rice Salad - a fresh summer salad loaded with black beans, chicken, corn and rice. Totally addicting and makes the perfect dinner for a busy weeknight.
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White Chicken Enchiladas
These White Chicken Enchiladas have the easiest cream sauce you could ever make, super delicious, cheesy, gooey, melt in your mouth enchiladas! Perfect for an easy and quick weeknight meal, ready in a total of 40 minutes start to finish!
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Enchilada Meatball Bake
This Enchilada Meatball Bake encompasses everything you know and love about enchiladas. These enchilada meatballs are made with pork and beef, baked to perfection in an enchilada sauce and smothered with cheese.
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Chicken Enchilada Quesadillas
These Chicken Enchilada Quesadillas will definitely satisfy your Mexican cravings. You'll get the bold flavors of chicken enchiladas all packed in a fun quesadilla. This recipe is so simple you'll be making it any night of the week!
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Beef Tamale Casserole
This Beef Tamale Casserole will certainly make your dinner time easy. We're talking comfort food to the max: layers of cornbread, enchilada sauce, spiced ground beef, all loaded with cheese then baked to perfection!
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Chicken Tamale Casserole
Chicken Tamale Casserole in a Skillet made from scratch! Delicious cornbread crust topped with shredded chicken, enchilada sauce and loads of cheese, and clocking in at under 300 calories per serving!
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Tex Mex Chilaquiles
These Tex Mex Chilaquiles can be on your table in only 20 minutes and are perfect for breakfast or brunch! These chilaquiles are loaded with turkey and smothered with cheese and green enchilada sauce.
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Quick and Easy Green Chile Chicken Enchilada Casserole
This Green Chile Chicken Enchilada Casserole can be on your dinner table in 30 minutes all in one pot! It doesn't get any easier than these chicken enchiladas, they're creamy, cheesy and perfect!
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Easy Chicken Enchilada Casserole
Easy Chicken Enchilada Casserole - 4 ingredients is all it takes to make this popular Mexican dish. It's cheesy, it's spicy, it's sinfully delicious.
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Cheesy Chicken Enchilada Soup
This Creamy Cheesy Chicken Enchilada Soup is a fiesta of flavors full of chunks of chicken, black beans, corn and diced tomatoes, for a complete satisfying and comforting bowl of soup.
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Baked Breakfast Taquitos
My Baked Breakfast Taquitos recipe is always a favorite! They're crispy, cheesy, and full of delicious goodness. Best of all, they’re baked! Taquitos for breakfast! Brilliant!
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Easy Chicken Fajitas
These Easy Chicken Fajitas will become your favorite weeknight meal! Just like the restaurant version but homemade and ready in 30 minutes!
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Albondigas Soup
An incredible Albondigas soup which is a traditional Mexican meatball soup loaded with vegetables and full of flavor.
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Quick and Easy Green Chile Chicken Enchilada Casserole
This Green Chile Chicken Enchilada Casserole can be on your dinner table in 30 minutes all in one pot! It doesn't get any easier than these chicken enchiladas, they're creamy, cheesy and perfect!
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3 Ingredient Mexican Rice
3 Ingredient Mexican Rice - your favorite Mexican restaurant style rice at home with only 3 ingredients. This rice comes together in only 15 minutes and in only one pot. Yup, you heard that right!
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Steak Tacos with Chimichurri Sauce
Steak Tacos with Chimichurri Sauce - the easiest and most delicious steak tacos with a super easy and fresh chimichurri sauce. So satisfying, and so fresh!
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Finish With These Desserts
Mexican Wedding Cookies
Mexican Wedding Cookies – don’t get fooled by the name, these cookies will make a great addition to your favorite holiday cookies.
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Tres Leches Cake
This classic Tres Leches Cake from scratch will blow your mind! Soft, delicious, melt-in-your-mouth sweet sponge cake, soaked in 3 milks and topped with whipped cream!
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Apple Pie Taquitos
Apple Pie Taquitos - crispy, sweet, and delicious, these taquitos are simple to make. All the makings of a great apple pie, in a fun taquito form. Genius!
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Sopapilla Cheesecake
Sopapilla Cheesecake – an embarrassingly easy to make cheesecake that's ridiculously delicious and will totally blow your mind.
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Churro Apple Pie Cookies
Churro Apple Pie Cookies - Adorable little apple pies, churro style! They're crispy, crunchy and a lot of sugary goodness, trust me, you wouldn't want it any other way!
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Margarita Cake
Margarita Cake - a moist and super delicious way to use up your cake mix to make something really fabulous.
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I hope you’ll enjoy these recipes!
Martha says
Where is the recipe that is in the picture at the top of the page??
Nicole Beaulieu says
That’s the recipe for our blackened shrimp! Check it out here: https://www.jocooks.com/recipes/blackened-shrimp/
Haley says
each and every recipe is unique and fascinating in its own way! I hope you keep on writing more of such articles!
Joanna Cismaru says
Thank you!