Ideas for Mexican family meals

[MooseyMoo]

Planning on having a food themed weekend throughout lockdown. Thinking Mexican for this weekend.

We’ve had burritos and nachos before - any other ideas?

Enchiladas
Quesadillas
Sweetcorn salsa

Fajitas always go down well. Everyone can help themselves

Homemade salsa and guacamole

Barbacoa made either with goat or with a slab of beef.

Carnitas

Chilaquiles

Pozole soup

Chilli bowl. Simple chilli but put bowls of cheese, guacamole, lime wedges, soured dream, pico de gallo, herbs, tortilla chips and chilli out so people can 'dress their on chilli'

Build your own nachos with grilled chicken or steak and Monterey Jack cheese.

Flaming cheese. We have it with vegetables so as not to die of heart disease immediately. But you can eat it with nachos or tortillas.

Spicy black beans. Yum.

Quesidilla with your choice of filling

Prawn or fish tacos.

Nacho soup - just as lovely if you leave the chicken out

www.delish.com/uk/cooking/recipes/a33344288/nacho-soup-recipe/

Fish or shrimp tacos - the soft kind. I prefer flour taco over corn. Here is a recipe

www.simplyrecipes.com/recipes/fish_tacos/

Last lockdown we did some around the world themed food days which we all really enjoyed - I'd totally forgotten about it and have had a couple of blah days, so thanks for the reminder op.

We love the soft taco boats with chilli and all the stuff.

An awesome trick is make your own tortillas - brush flour tortillas with sunflower / rapeseed oil and sprinkle salt. Scissors to cut into wedges then hot oven for 3-4 minutes. Watch them like a hawk!!!!

Last night I had quesadillas with re fried beans, grated cheese and roast peppers in them. They were lovely!

Ooh I love home made cinnamon-sugar nachos with strawberry salsa for dessert (easy to find on Pinterest)

Baja fish tacos are delicious.

Enchiladas are an easy win

Or black bean tostadas with pineapple salsa

I'm desperate to try the Birria street tacos that have been all over social media. I know you said you've done tacos, but these look incredible! Maybe some churros?

Definitely make your own pico and guac. Maybe enchilada lasagne? I'm very jealous mexican food is my fave and I've struggled to adapt it for one person since becoming single.

Huevos rancheros for breakfast or lunch

Loaded nachos

Toastadas
Soft corn tacos
Blackbean and avocado salad
Churros

Thank you so much for all the lovely suggestions. I’m going to enjoy looking up recipes for these 😊

I just need something to plan/research and something to look forward to at the weekends at the moment. Will share recipes of what we end up having.

Tamales www.bonappetit.com/story/make-these-tamales-entire-family
Chicken mole www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/chicken-mole-coriander-rice
Tacos el Pastor www.seriouseats.com/2013/05/food-lab-tacos-al-pastor.html
Chicken posole www.simplyrecipes.com/recipes/chicken_pozole/
Fish taco www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2013/08/crispy-fried-fish-tacos-recipe.html

In the end we had Fajitas on Sat night and Sun we had Carnitas tacos with Mexican rice.

The kids enjoyed the slow cooked pork and loved it when I played ‘It’s raining Tacos’ instead of saying dinner’s ready 😂

Thanks for all the lovely suggestions. Hopefully it will inspire other people to try some of the recipes.

@MooseyMoo funfair theme went down well here during lockdown 1.0

• burgers
• hotdogs
• fries
• candy floss
• churros
• teeny pancakes with syrup
• popcorn

And retro kids party

• cheese and pineapple hedgehog
• jelly and blancmange ring
• little sandwiches cut into triangle
• cheese straws
• vol au vents
• trifle
• cocktail sausages on sticks