Quick pickled onions
These colourful, spiced sweet and sour onions add piquancy to a ploughman’s, or a sharp finish to Mexican food - an ideal edible gift to make ahead and pop in a homemade hamper
Mexican pulled pork tacos
Fill crisp taco shells with a spicy pulled pork filling which can be frozen ahead of time for an easy entertaining dish to share
Red cabbage & pickled chilli slaw
Serve this crunchy red cabbage slaw with pickled jalapeño chillies as part of a Mexican feast. If you're making this dish for kids, leave out the chilli and dress with lime juice and a splash of oil
Curtido
Curtido is a fat-free slaw from Mexico made with white cabbage, carrot and onion. Pile it high on tacos or in burritos, or serve as a salad in its own right
Mexican prawn soup
Check out our hearty Mexican soup recipe with king prawns. This easy one-pot dish is packed with flavour and has under 300 calories for an easy midweek meal
Easy Chunky Tomato Salsa
This is a very easy to prepare, chunky salsa that can be used as a dip for doritos and other kinds of chips.
Crab & avocado tostadas
Use a corn tortilla as a base then top with storecupboard crabmeat, guacamole-style Mexican dip and salad, from BBC Good Food.
Tomato & avocado salsa
This doubles up as both the guacamole and the tomato salsa element of a Mexican meal
Mexican rice
This is the recipe for my grandma's rice. Being Mexican, this is about as authentic as you can get. Makes a great side dish to grilled meat or vegetables.
Crispy pork tacos with pineapple salsa
Pork mince makes a great alternative to beef- we serve it Mexican-style with crisp tortilla shells and a fruity salsa
Meatballs with spicy chipotle tomato sauce
Mexican chipotle pepper paste gives this everyday pork supper a smoky, spicy flavour, from BBC Good Food.
Perfect Mexican rice
No Mexican feast is complete without a huge bowl of authentic Mexican rice. The key here is to cook the rice properly and use a good quality stock and crisp, fresh herbs and vegetables.
Avocado and mango salsa
A wonderfully fruity, yet creamy salsa, made with ripe mango, red pepper, red onion and avocado. It's purely addictive. Serve as a side dish or use as a dip.
Mexican tortilla lasagne
Tortillas replace lasagne sheeets in this fairly easy recipe for feeding a crowd who love Mexican-style comfort food.
Mexican kebabs
Chicken marinated in lime juice, cumin and fresh coriander, then threaded onto skewers with chunky vegetables. Serve with rice, salsa and warm tortillas.
Tortilla soup recipe
This Mexican tortilla soup is often made with pasilla chillies, but I like it with chipotles. I’ve also had this soup with cooked shredded chicken and even crisp pieces of pork skin.