Do you love easy recipe Mexican recipes? Are you looking for ideas for Mexican dinner? Me too! This list of pizzas, taco soup, salad, burritos, and more is perfect for your Taco Tuesday.
Looking for the best ideas for Mexican dinner that everyone at the table will adore? This is the list you have to see! We present you with mouthwatering recipes for Mexican pizza, taco soup, taco salad, burritos, and a few other favorites.
60 Delicious Recipe Ideas For Mexican Dinner
Tasty Tacos
Bang Bang Chicken Tacos
If you are familiar with bang bang shrimp (think a Bonefish Grill favorite), then these bang bang chicken tacos will be right up your alley! Crispy chicken bites, topped with a sweet and spicy creamy sauce, are wrapped in soft tortillas. This is what taco dreams are made of, I promise!
Rotisserie Chicken Tacos
These quick and easy Rotisserie Chicken Tacos are on the table in under 30 minutes! Add your favorite taco toppings for a delicious, family-friendly meal.
Chicken Fajita Tacos!
Perfectly seared chicken rubbed down with a delicious homemade fajita seasoning, tender-crisp fajita veggies, and your favorite toppings tucked into a soft tortilla or crunchy taco shell. This 30-minute meal is an easy dinner idea that everyone will love!
Grilled Chicken Tacos
Grilled Chicken Tacos are a quick and easy weeknight dinner made with grilled chicken tenders. Skip the drive-thru and have a healthy and delicious meal on the table in under 30 minutes.
Chorizo Street Tacos
The beauty of Chorizo Street Tacos is their simplicity – bold, ground chorizo nestled in a warmed corn tortilla and topped minimally with carefully chosen, complementary garnishes.
Red Bean & Rice
Let the good times roll along with the deliciousness! Celebrate flavor with my New Orleans-inspired Etouffee Street Tacos and Easy Red Beans and Rice!
Vegan Tacos
Spicy Black Bean And Mushroom Tacos
Turn taco Tuesday into meatless Monday with these vegan tacos. They’re super delicious and hearty with just beans and sautéed vegetables.
Asian Eggplant Tacos
Give eggplant a try with this fun plant-based recipe. It’s zesty, refreshing, and nutritious. They’re perfect for a meatless Mexican dinner idea.
Tempeh Mushroom Tacos
If you’ve never had tempeh, now is the time to try. This plant-based meat replacement is made from soybeans, and it’s packed with protein.
Lentil Walnut Tacos
This delicious Lentil Walnut Taco “Meat” is perfect for your tacos, burritos, and more! So simple to make for easy weekday meals and ideas for Mexican dinner!
Cranberry Bean Pepper
Perfect for Meatless Monday or Taco Tuesday, these Cranberry Bean & Pepper Tacos will change the way you think about tacos. Gluten-free and vegan, these healthy homemade tacos will meet all taco-loving needs!
Soy Curl Tacos
These delicious vegan sheet pan fajitas with soy curls are quick and easy enough to make any night of the week. Use this filling in tacos, burritos, or bowls, and enjoy a Mexican favorite right in your own home.
Bursting Burritos
Skirt Steak Burritos
A delicious, meaty burrito made with marinated skirt steak, peppers, and onions. If you’re looking for ideas for Mexican dinner, this is the one for you.
Carnitas Burritos
This simple but tasty carnitas burrito recipe uses leftover smoked carnitas loaded with your favorite fixings. Plus, they are freezer friendly!
California Burrito
California burritos are the perfect idea for Mexican dinner. That’s because it’s big and thick, stuffed with all your absolute favorites like carne asada, Mexican street fries, salsa, jalapeno sour cream, cheese, and guacamole!
Mexican Pizzas
Easy Mexican Pizza
Made with a Mexican twist, Taco pizza uses seasoned beef, salsa, and other taco toppings for a fun twist on traditional pizza. Perfect for lunch or dinner.
Meaty Mexican Pizza
This Mexican pizza recipe is layers of taco meat and beans sandwiched between two crispy shells and topped with plenty of melted cheese and toppings. SO much better than Taco Bell!
Taco Bell Copycat Pizza
This easy air fryer Mexican pizza recipe is a tasty meal or snack to spice up your regular menu. Here’s how to make it!
Birria Mexican Pizza
Birria Pizza is a meat lover’s dream. First, it’s made with beef and cheese. Then, served with consomme for dunking and enjoying.
Taco Pie Pizza
Another ground beef recipe to add to your arsenal, this taco pie recipe is layered like a taco but baked in pie form. A fun twist for Taco Tuesdays!
Keto Taco Bell Pizza
If you are a huge fan of Taco Bell, this is one of the best Copycat Recipes. Layered tortillas, refried beans, taco meat, gooey cheese, and sauce make this Air Fryer Keto Taco Bell Mexican Pizza just like the real thing.
Oaxacan Mexican Pizza
An Oaxacan wonder, these Mexican Tlayudas are a delicious response to Pizza! Crunchy, soft, meaty, and jam-packed with flavor. It’s high time you experienced Tlayudas with this idea for Mexican dinner.
Homemade Taco Pizza
When two of the most delicious worlds collide, they make taco pizza! Use naan flatbread for ease, then cover it with a refried bean sauce, taco meat, and mozzarella cheese! Finally, it’s Topped off with lots of lettuce, tomato, and Doritos!
Extra Cheesy Pizza
This copycat Mexican Pizza is homemade and the perfect way to enjoy layers of cheesy goodness from a fast-food favorite. Trust me; this recipe will be one that everyone will love!
Ground Turkey Mexican Pizza
Homemade Mexican Pizza made with ground turkey and refried black beans are so good! Of course, you won’t miss Taco Bell’s version at all.
Tantalizing Taco Soups
Chicken Taco Soup
A delicious and fast Mexican soup recipe! Featuring chicken, black beans, corn, and lots of Mexican spices! It’s a mouthwatering idea for dinner.
Light Chicken Soup
This Chicken Taco Soup is lighter on calories but still full of flavor! Packed with chicken, veggies, and beans, it’s a great recipe to keep you on track.
Best Taco Soup
The best-ever Taco Soup Recipe is made with simple pantry ingredients, including ground meat, canned tomatoes, beans, and a combination of seasonings and spices. Super easy to make on the stovetop or in the slow cooker, enjoy this delicious protein-packed taco soup with all of your favorite toppings like cheese, avocado, and sour cream.
Beef Tortilla Soup
This famous beef tortilla soup from the Menger Hotel in San Antonio, Texas is a historic recipe that has been on the menu for over a hundred years…we’re guessing that’s a sign it’s excellent!
Chochoyotes Chicken Soup
My Mexican chochoyotes recipe features delicious dimpled dumplings of masa flour cooked in a super flavorsome chicken soup: a humble, warming, and intensely satisfying hug of a dish.
Easy Taco Soup
The best easy Taco Soup Recipe! Make it in the crock pot, instant pot, or on the stove. Perfect for a quick healthy dinner!
Beef & Tomato Soup
The best low-carb soup! Ditch the beans for this simmered Mexican soup with a homemade taco seasoning.
Instant Pot Taco Soup
Instant Pot Taco Soup is one of the easiest dinners you’ll ever make. It’s a one-pot 30-minute meal consisting of mainly pantry ingredients that are low sodium, healthy, wholesome, and full of flavor!
Chicken Tortilla Soup
Are you looking for the best chicken tortilla soup? Tender chicken, zucchini, rice, shredded cheese, and more are in this easy copycat On the Border tortilla soup. Pair it with some tortilla chips and fresh salsa, and you have a meal!
Vegan Taco Soup
Easy to make in 30 minutes with pantry staples, this vegan taco soup features black beans, corn, and jackfruit in a spicy tomato broth. Top with avocado slices and crushed tortilla chips for a hearty Mexican-inspired meal.
Tempting Taco Salads
Zesty Mexican Salad
Make the obligatory salad at your next party buffet with this colorful and zesty Mexican-inspired salad! Also great for summer lunches and serving alongside classic Mexican mains like fajitas and tacos! It’s pleasing to the eye and the taste buds.
Guacamole Style Salad Bowl
This delicious vegetarian or vegan taco salad bowl with guacamole is super easy to make. Perfect for taco Tuesday or meatless Monday at the dinner table.
Salsa Ranch Taco Salad
Taco Salad with Salsa Ranch Dressing is a quick and easy weeknight dinner. A crispy fried taco bowl topped with lettuce, seasoned ground beef, and a salsa ranch dressing. Easy to customize with all of your favorite taco toppings!
Leftover Taco Meat Salad
This Taco Salad From Leftovers is the perfect easy lunch meal that can be brought to work, school, or a picnic. It is a top allergen-free, dairy-free taco salad and has a taco bowl plant-based option available. This simple recipe is the perfect way to use up those taco meat leftovers and save time making healthy, delicious lunches.
Lime Dressing Taco Salad
The best Taco Salad is filled with perfectly seasoned ground beef, fresh salad greens, shredded cheese, and tortilla strips and drizzled with a light lime vinaigrette. Versatile, delicious, and ready in just 30 minutes, the whole family will love this fresh take on the classic all-American Taco Salad!
Layered Taco Salad
This Chopped & Layered Taco Salad Recipe is a family favorite. Serve this healthy layered taco salad at parties and potlucks or Mexican dinners.
Quinoa Taco Salad
This Taco Quinoa Bowl is chock full of goodness with ground chicken, beans, and veggies! Colorful, crunchy, and healthy, this quinoa bowl recipe will is the perfect lunch or dinner! It’s easy to make ahead of time and can keep for a few days.
Baked Chicken Taco Salad
This taco salad recipe combines ground beef, lettuce, beans, cheese, tomatoes, tortilla strips, and avocado, all tossed in a zesty dressing. A fun and festive salad perfect for a lighter main course or as a side dish at a potluck.
Favorites & Side Dishes
How To Make Guacamole Dip
What’s Mexican dinner without some refreshing homemade guacamole? This recipe is made from scratch with onions, garlic, jalapeños, avocados, and more!
Flautas Recipe
Crispy, delectable flautas! Here’s how to make this appetizer at home with the filling of your choice:
Beef Tostadas
This ground beef tostada recipe is inspired by a hot Mexican restaurant in Austin, Texas. So if you want a fantastic idea for dinner that everyone will adore, try this one!
Sheet Pan Fajitas
Got a sheet pan? Then you’ve got dinner. This easy healthy family meal is so easy to throw together after a busy day.
Baked Taquito Nachos
Baked chicken taquito nachos made with rotisserie chicken, taco seasoning, and shredded cheese, then loaded with your favorite nacho toppings!
7 Layer Taco Dip
Taco seasoned refried beans, guacamole, sour cream, salsa, Mexican cheese, tomatoes, olives, and a topping of chopped cilantro bump this dish into one of our favorite appetizer categories.
Cauliflower Spanish Rice
Cauliflower Spanish Rice is the perfect side dish for all your Tex-Mex or Mexican recipes. This low-carb Mexican rice is full of flavor and is quick and easy to make.
Taco Stuffed Mini Peppers
Taco Stuffed Mini Peppers are the perfect low-carb snack, appetizer, or light meal! This healthy recipe takes just 30 minutes to make and is excellent finger food!
Mexican Hot Dog
This Mexican hot dog recipe combines all of the delicious flavors of Mexico into one fantastic dish. It’s full of fresh ingredients and a spicy sauce that everyone loves!
Strawberry Walnut Tostadas
Fresh strawberries, walnuts, and feta cheese bring together this deliciously sweet and savory creation. Add your favorite toppings and these Strawberry Walnut Tostadas are what I call a party on a plate!
Taco Spaghetti
Taco Spaghetti is a Mexican twist on traditional spaghetti. It’s a one-dish wonder, perfect for a hungry group!
Taco Cheese Ball
This Taco Cheese Ball recipe could not be easier to make! It is loaded with Mexican cheese and taco seasoning for a simple and addictive appetizer recipe that’s perfect for parties.
Skinny Turkey Enchiladas
These Skinny Turkey Enchiladas have all your favorite taco flavors and are finished off with the same toppings you love, but they’re rolled up and baked in the oven for only 25 minutes.
Vegan Nachos
Make these fully loaded vegan nachos when you need a guaranteed crowd-pleasing appetizer! Tortilla chips get layered with vegan queso, taco meat, refried beans, guacamole, pico de gallo, vegan sour cream, and pickled onions for the ultimate nacho experience.
Elote Mexican Street Corn
Our Mexican corn on the cob, also known as Mexican street corn or Elote, is the best way to enjoy corn this summer. Once your corn is grilled, you can slather it in our authentic, Mexican-style crema and sprinkle spicy seasoning and cotija cheese on top.
Street Corn Salsa
Mexican Street Corn Salsa – A delightful homemade salsa filled with fresh ingredients and bursting with flavor. A perfect appetizer or snack when entertaining family and friends!
Vegan Elote
Fresh, zesty, and delicious, this easy Vegan Elote is the perfect food to serve at a BBQ, potluck, or side on your dinner table. You don’t need a grill or much time at all to make this delicious side dish that will have your guests or family members raving and begging for more.
I love Mexican food so much. That’s why this list of dinner ideas is full of Mexican pizzas, Taco Soups, Burritos, enchilada, and enchilada recipes.
If you made any of these easy recipes, let us know how you liked them in the comments!