Picadillo is a delicious and quite unusual dish using a mixture of pork and beef. It is lovely served with rice, but any leftovers can also be used as a filling for tacos or empanadas.
Good quality steak makes the most delicious filling for a taco in next to no time! Marinate in our Mexican blend - the hot version if you dare! - and serve with simple fresh ingredients.
This Chilli Bean soup is barely a soup at all! More of a sloppy bowl of chilli with the rice stirred in! It’s warming, filling and delicious. Serve with tortilla chips, a dollop of sour cream and some cheese if you like.
Sometimes you just want a simple meal, and this is just that! A spicy chicken wrap with black beans and cheese. Lettuce optional! Use our hot Mexican blend if you want something with a real kick, or opt for the mild version if you’re feeding the family.
Here is a simple recipe for delicious enchiladas and the accompanying tomatillo or tomato sauces.
There are many ways of filling a taco, that famous Mexican street food. Here is the basic recipe!
Make some delicious fajitas with either our hot or mild Mexican blend. Be warned, the hot is HOT!
Nachos are a big snack dish or appetiser, very popular in the US as well as Mexico. It’s a great way to stretch that helping of chilli (and possibly refried beans) into a dish for more people.
This is a Chilean recipe, but well worth including here as it’s absolutely delicious…Olives and raisins sound odd but make a huge impact in the dish which, you will notice, is, in effect, an unusual cottage pie!
This is real Mexican food. A ‘Pozole’ is a satisfying, one-pot recipe cooked with pork, tomato and Hominy - naturally processed corn kernels, that tastes somewhere between sweetcorn and popcorn!
This recipe is one where you cannot believe something so simple can be so tasty! Your only challenge may be in tracking down tins of tomatillos, although they are easily available online…
What a wonderful way to use up mashed potato! In fact this simple recipe is so good that it’s worth cooking the potatoes just for this!
This recipe is rather like an unconstructed enchilada - chicken or beef in layers with cheese and tortillas - delicious! Serve with guacamole and salad.
This oh-so-simple recipe works a treat in several ways. You can fill a quesadilla (just add cheese!) or a tortilla and top with a tomato/tomatillo sauce for an enchilada. Or use as a bean-less chilli con carne…
This is a simple, lazy filling for tacos and quesadillas. We used our Smoky chilli blend, but you could use any chilli powder or sauce…
This recipe is sweet, tangy and utterly delicious! It contains lots of dark sugar and some chillies (we used our Smoky Chilli blend). It is also very rich…
Meatballs are a popular and easy meal in Mexico, and this version is served with a tomato sauce flavoured with chipotle chillies. We have used our Smoky chilli spice blend…
The chocolate sauce has at its heart a tomatillo base, with the added heat of chillies and the richness of ground almonds and very dark chocolate…
Chicken and rice, Mexican-style! Use our spice blend or just use cumin and smoked paprika, and don’t forget the lime juice!
This simple, creamy (and totally unspicy!) filling for enchiladas is a great way of using up leftover roast or pulled pork.
