10 Inspiring Mexican Cinco De Mayo Recipes
Cinco de Mayo is just around the corner. This is one of those holidays we celebrate without knowing what it’s all about (in my circles, at least). We usually tip back a few Mexican beers and shout a half-hearted, “Happy Cinco de Mayo!” as the total of our festivities. After a little search on Wikipedia, I dug up a few things I didn’t know about this Mexican holiday.
- Cinco de Mayo is a bigger holiday in the United States than Mexico
- The holiday originated in the American West to commemorate freedom during the Civil War
- In Mexico, the holiday is mainly celebrated in the state of Puebla, where it’s called Batalia de Puebla and celebrates the battle of Puebla, where a small, poorly-equipped Mexican army crushed the invading French army.
- Cinco de Mayo as we know it today–celebrating Mexican culture–is also celebrated in cities in Canada, London, New Zealand, Paris and Australia.
Did you know any of these facts about Cinco de Mayo?
Since this is my first year with a food blog, I have a pitiful lack of Mexican recipes. I tend to cook more Latin/Caribbean recipes because of my Miami roots. Even so, we celebrate Cinco De Mayo in our own way.
Here’s a little wrap up of the Latin and Mexican recipes I’ve posted so far, along with a few favorites from my blogger friends. I hope these inspiring Cinco De Mayo recipes get your ready for a margarita and a hearty Mexican meal. Enjoy!
TOP GROUP
Top Left: Margarita Cookies from Noshing with the Nolands
Top Right: Mexican Grilled Corn (Elote) from Confections of a Foodie Bride
Middle Left: IXA Organic Tequila Paloma Cocktail from Culinary Ginger
Middle Right: Smoked Salt and Goat Cheese Padron Pepper Tacos (Vegetarian) from Love and Duck Fat
Bottom: Roasted Potato Cups with Loaded Guacamole from She Likes Food
BOTTOM GROUP
Top: Breakfast Nachos from Runway Chef
Middle Left: Cuban Sandwich Crostini from Love and Duck Fat
Middle Right: Latin Picadillo from Love and Duck Fat
Bottom Left: Arepa, Roast Pork Eggs Benedict with Cilantro Hollandaise from Love and Duck Fat
Bottom Right: Pork Carnitas Tacos from Love and Duck Fat
All images copyright of their respective blog owners.
How do you celebrate Cinco De Mayo? I’d love to know! Please share in the comments below.
These look so yummy and corn will be ready to harvest here any day. I love grilled corn on the cob. Thanks for sharing and pinning.
We eat Mexican year round in our house – we love it. We were in San Diego last week and ate Mexican 4 nights out of the 7 we were there.
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Hi Marni! Thanks so much for including my potato bites! Also, thanks for giving me some more inspiration with all these other yummy dishes!
MMM, I love Mexican food! I’m going to have to try those Pork Carnitas Tacos. They look delicious!!
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My lot love Mexican food I am going to have to have a Cinco de Mayo party I think and I am trying all of these – thank you for sharing Marni 🙂
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Wow. It all looks so good, but I am going have to try the roasted potato cups. Yum. Thank you for your lovely post.
Oh, that’s right. Cinco De Mayo is coming right up. Before I got candida, I used to always celebrate. Then I got sick… Now, I eat the same ole, same ole almost every day.
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I love all Mexican food, so I am looking forward to Monday!
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We don’t celebrate Cinco de Mayo. I’d bet my hubby would enjoy most of those recipes anyway, on any day.
Lots of good things going on here. As I get older, I grow more fond of this type of food. Cinco de Mayo is celebrated big where I am from and so I might have to try some of these recipes this week or this summer. I probably would start with Roasted Potato Cups with Loaded Guacamole. They look fabulous.
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This all looks absolutely delicious! I think I need to go buy me some grilled corn with cheese sauce, yummy!
Cinco de Mayo is one of my favorite holidays, mainly because of the food (and margaritas)! These recipes look DELICIOUS.
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I love Elote (Mexican Street Corn)….one of the things I really miss about the West Coast…. I used to be able to step out of church and there’d be vendors out there selling em!!!
I didn’t know any of these facts. I just knew it was not the independence of Mexico because we learned that at school. I did attend a celebration today because my daughters spoke for a group of girls being mentored about leadership here in Dallas. It was fun and we didn’t eat the food because we are vegans. I really love your pictures and now I want corn on the cob! LOL
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I’m making the grilled corn tomorrow it’s my favorite!
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Those margarita cookies sound interesting. And the elote is something I am totally ready to make on Monday. I’m so excited!
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These are such goodie and yummy foods that I definitely would enjoy!
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I can not wait to try some of these, Cinco De Mayo is one of my favorite holidays because of the foods and flavors.
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Though I cook with meat every single day, I’m the vegetarian in the house and those Smoked Salt and Goat Cheese Padron Pepper Tacos (Vegetarian) sound fantastic! Great list too, with something for everyone!
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Each and Everyone of these recipes look amazing! Thank you so much for linking up at Party in Your PJs.
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We don’t Cinco De Mayo. I love all the yummy looking recipes. I love Mexican food.
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Ok, I saw the tacos and was like “OMG I need to make those”… And then I found out there was goat cheese and I was like “OMG I need to make those RIGHT NOW”…
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All these dishes look delicious! I especially like the breakfast nachos though I would enjoy these anytime during the day. Yummy!
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at first i saw the tacos and i was like “omg I need to make those tacos”… and then i read there was GOAT CHEESE in them and I was all “OMG I NEED TO MAKE THOSE TACOS RIGHT NOW”. SO yummy!
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Margarita cookies! That sounds like HEAVEN!
I think Seis de Mayo might be margarita day…
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