Mexican recipes

Baked Chicken Chimichangas

Skip the messy deep fryer and excess fat absorbed and bake chimichangas instead. Fast to fix and a great way to use up deli roast chicken.

Ortega Taco Casserole

You’ll love This Heavenly Chicken Tortilla Soup

This Mexican style soup is so rich in intriguing flavors and full of tantalizing aromas that fill your…

Mexican Rice Pilaf

Generally, Mexican cooks make this rice with fresh tomatoes, but ever the corner-cutter, I use petite diced, drained.

Mexican Style Green Sweet Peas

This is a delicious way of cooking fresh peas, and makes an excellent accompaniment to any meal. The flavor comes from the vegetables themselves,…

Slow Cooker Beef Chili

Slow Cooker Beef Chili is an easy, delicious, hearty, healthy, low calories, low fat, low sugars, low carbohydrates, WeightWatchers (6) PointsPlus…

Mexican Carnitas/Pulled Pork (with a little help from my pressure cooker

I absolutely love pork carnitas. The meat should be tender on the inside,…

Beef Taco Salad

Great lunch option or have a light supper for "Two".

Corn Salsa Recipe

This Corn Salsa is everything I love – sweet, savory, spicy, crunchy and fresh. It’s gratifying with nachos or inside the tacos. Perfect any way you…

Mexican rice

Found this recipe on 'Cooking Classy' I tweaked it a tiny bit and it is amazingly close to the rice I love at mexican restaurants. I was actually…

Tequila-Flamed Mangoes Over Vanilla Ice Cream

Before the mangoes are flamed they are baked with brown sugar. This process makes them sweet and syrupy. Over…

Guacamole

I've played with this recipe a lot over the years. I think i've finally nailed it to my taste. I like the flavor spicy and bold, so you may need…

Salsa Bandera (Flag Salsa)

Typical Mexican fresh salsa. It gets its name from the colors in the Mexican Flag.

Almond

If you're very lucky, and focus really hard, and think of happy thoughts, it will taste sweet.

Mexican Seafood Chowder

There are two challenges to this dish: one is to get the right balance of salt, garlic, saffron, and jalapeno; and the other is to not overcook the…