My list of easy Mexican beef recipes will spice up your meals and always hit the spot! Digging into Mexican cuisine is always a tasty adventure! From beef enchiladas, tacos, and hearty stews to beef burritos, there’s something delicious for every occasion.
Why You’ll Love These Mexican Beef Recipes
- Easy and Convenient: These recipes use simple ingredients you might already have in your kitchen, perfect for an easy dinner on busy nights and advance meal prep.
- Customize to Your Preferences: My list of recipes is packed with so much flavor from spices like chili powder and adobo sauce. Add your favorite toppings, such as sour cream, cheddar cheese, and pico de gallo.
- Cook in Different Ways: You can cook in a pressure cooker, slow cooker, large skillet, grill, oven, or Dutch oven.
- Perfect Pairings: Serve with sides like cilantro lime rice, black beans, and fresh homemade salsa for a well-rounded meal.
- Mexican Cuisine at Home: Perfect for anyone who loves Mexican food, these recipes bring the vibrant flavors of a Mexican kitchen straight to your home.
- Ideal for Gatherings: No more worrying about what to cook for a party; you’ll get plenty of Mexican dinner ideas here!
54 Mexican Beef Recipes
Embrace Mexican culture and give these Mexican recipes a try. Enjoy preparing these easy meals at a fraction of the time!
Crock Pot Chile Colorado turns out just like the restaurant-quality Mexican food favorite! An easier approach to Chile Colorado, you’ll love preparing this authentic dish at home. Make it the next time you’re getting friends or family togethe
This creamy burrito casserole has layers of ground beef, cheese, flour tortillas and bell peppers. It's a fun and delicious dinner for the whole family.
Busy weeknights just got easier (and more delicious!) with this Mexican Beef and Rice Skillet! It’s a one-pot meal, full of Mexican flavors, that will make your whole family want to go back for seconds. Taco seasoning and salsa combine with ground beef, canned corn, black beans, and white rice to form a quick and easy dinner recipe with minimal clean-up!
Spice up dinner tonight with a twist on classic beef tacos. This Beef Taco Skillet is a quick and easy one-pot wonder that brings all the bold Mexican-inspired flavors of traditional tacos to your table in just 30 minutes! This recipe has been a staple in our kitchen for years, and I have a feeling it’s about to become a favorite in yours too.
This Walking Taco Casserole is so easy to make for dinner and ready in under 30 minutes! Full of Mexican flavors & lots of crunch too.
If your family is looking for a simple way to serve up a south-of-the-border classic, this Easy Beef Enchilada Casserole can be your ticket to a warm, filling meal.
Dinner is as easy as a one-pot fiesta with this Macaroni Tex Mex Casserole Recipe your whole family will love. The macaroni is cooked to perfection, and then mixed with a delicious blend of ground beef, corn and diced tomatoes.
These grass-fed beef tacos are your answer to a healthy meal with great flavor. The popular dish consists of seasoned ground beef served in a tortilla with classic taco toppings such lettuce, cheese, salsa, and sour cream.
Nothing beats an epic platter of gooey nachos. This ground beef nacho recipe has an easy flourless cheese sauce that is always smooth and creamy
Birria Tacos are pan-fried shredded meat tacos in a corn tortilla with a rich chili sauce. Beef roast is slow-cooked in an amazing warmly-spiced sauce for an incredible explosion of flavor.
Crunchy tortillas stuffed with a flavorful beef & bean mixture and topped with melty cheese. This easy Mexican pizza tastes a million times better than fast food and is healthier too.
Savor a rich Mexican Beef Stew with a hint of heat, featuring tender beef cubes in a mole-style sauce. Served with tortilla chips, corn, and parsley, it's a flavorful delight!
Tasty Beef Enchiladas from scratch. From the grocery store to your table, this recipe helps you make something special.
This Steak Street Tacos with Corn recipe gives a twist to Taco Tuesday with sizzling steak tacos topped with a creamy Mexican street corn salsa made with grilled corn, cilantro, and mayo.
Loaded with steak, cheese and peppers, Steak Nachos are tasty and satisfying. Liven up your snacking—or have a seriously fun dinner!
Milanesa de res is a thinly sliced steak, perfectly seasoned, then coated in flour and breadcrumbs before being fried to golden perfection. Serve these fried steaks with your favourite Mexican sides or enjoy this crispy treat in a torta.
Salpicón is a refreshing and satisfying shredded beef salad bursting with the flavours of Mexico. Keep your kitchen cool by using an Instant Pot to cook the beef easily and quickly. It’s the perfect main dish salad for hot weather dining.
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These crispy ground beef tacos are an easy win. They only take 35 minutes to make, and everyone will love dipping these taco-quesadilla hybrids into all the sauces.
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This baked Ground Beef Taco Dip features taco meat, black beans, and corn topped with melted cheese and fresh salsa. It’s a hearty and warm appetizer that’s perfect for game day, Cinco de Mayo, and Taco Tuesday
Smoked beef birria tacos are next level! These flavorful, melt-in-your-mouth tacos dipped in a slowly simmered consommé will hit all the right spots with your taste buds!
Savor a rich Mexican Beef Stew with a hint of heat, featuring tender beef cubes in a mole-style sauce. Served with tortilla chips, corn, and parsley, it's a flavorful delight!
Beef Birria is an amazingly flavorful Mexican stew with a rich chili pepper infused consommé. Just wait till you try the meat in tacos.
Mexican Pizza from Taco Bell combines two classic dishes - tacos and pizza! What more could you ask for?! As if a taco wasn't already good enough now it's in the form of a pizza.
This Walking Taco Casserole is so easy to make for dinner and ready in under 30 minutes! Full of Mexican flavors & lots of crunch too.
This Walking Taco Casserole is so easy to make for dinner and ready in under 30 minutes! Full of Mexican flavors & lots of crunch too.
Any night can be taco night with this easy beef barbacoa recipe, thanks to your instant pot or slow cooker to do all the work.
This Instant Pot Mexican Shredded Beef is quick and easy, making it a family favorite. With minimal prep, just 45 minutes of cooking time, and endless serving possibilities, it's perfect for any meal.
Mexican pulled beef tacos are super easy to make for the whole family or group of friends! Use your favorite taco toppings for the ultimate Mexican experience.
Bistec Con Papas is a classic Mexican dish made of tender beef bites cooked in a flavorful sauce along with potatoes. Serve with red rice and beans for a fulfilling and budget-friendly meal.
This authentic tacos de bistec recipe can’t get easier. The meat is seasoned and pan-fried, then tucked into warm tortillas with the classic toppings for street tacos.
This fun and easy Mexican Stuffed Pepper recipe is filled with seasoned ground beef, sweet onions, garlic, fire-roasted tomatoes, and rice, all topped with cheddar and pepper jack cheese.
This Mexican ground beef casserole takes all of your favorite flavors of Taco Tuesday and turns them into a comforting dish.
Combining pieces of tender steak, fresh tomatoes, onion, jalapeno peppers, and spices, Slow Cooker Mexican Steak (Bistec a la Mexicana) is incredibly easy to make and so full of flavor!
Once you make this tender, delicious Instant Pot Beef Barbacoa at home, it’ll become a family favorite. It’s perfect for meal prep and freezer meals, too.
Full of flavor, so easy to make and can be made with cheap cuts of meat such as beef shin or a beef chuck roast.
Albondigas Soup is a classic Mexican meatball soup that’s hearty and full of wonderful flavor and warmth. Seasoned meatballs are dropped into a bubbling tomato-based soup with sautéed onion, carrot, celery, potatoes, and zucchini for any easy, comforting meal that’s a must-try.
This Tacos de Bistec Recipe combines the taste of Mexico with an Argentinian twist. Grilled skirt steak (Carne Asada) sizzles with tangy and bold Chimichurri Sauce, spread over delicious charred corn tortillas, and topped with Mexican cotija cheese, fresh onions, cilantro & a squeeze of lime juice.
This Mexican beef barbacoa recipe is a delicious and really easy-to-make tender and delicious Mexican shredded beef. It starts with an inexpensive chuck roast and then the most delicious barbacoa seasoning is added to the meat and slow-cooked in a Dutch oven.
Slow Cooker Mexican Beef Brisket is tender, juicy, and packed with warm flavors. This shredded brisket is perfect for tacos, quesadillas, rice bowls, or freezers and is great for later.
The perfect rice companion, Easy Mexican Beef Tips features tender chunks of garlicky beef swimming in an earthy tomato sauce. The perfect hearty meal that comes together quickly and easily.
This Dutch Oven Barbacoa recipe is a flavor-filled fiesta that also happens to be incredibly easy to make. The beef is seasoned and cooked low and slow until perfectly tender.
Dutch Oven Barbacoa is an easy way to make this extremely flavorful shredded beef! Serve in tacos, enchiladas, nachos, or even in Beef & Noodles. You’ll love the spicy chili peppers in the sauce that every bite is drenched in!
This simple Carne Asada recipe features skirt steak or flank steak marinated in flavorful spices and grilled to juicy, tender perfection. Thinly sliced and served warm, it makes the perfect complement to any Mexican dish.
This Mexican lasagna features saucy beef and gooey cheese sandwiched between layers of noodles. Combine your two favorite cuisines in this easy comfort food.
Crunchy tortillas stuffed with a flavorful beef & bean mixture and topped with melty cheese. This easy Mexican pizza tastes a million times better than fast food and is healthier too.
This Beef Empanadas Recipe features a delicious filling of hearty ground beef, shredded cheese, and tender vegetables, all encased in store-bought empanada wrappers or pie dough and baked until golden and flaky. Easy to prepare, these delightful pockets are perfect for parties, quick weeknight meals, or a convenient lunch on the go.
Slow Cooker Mexican Shredded Beef uses less than 10 ingredients for a delicious weeknight meal. It’s healthy, flavorful, with minimal effort. Try it over rice, in burritos, tacos, or nachos. Perfect for meal prep!
If taco night is a regular occurrence at your home, you need to add these flank steak tacos into the rotation. The grilled flank steak makes for a delicious homemade taco.
If you’re in the mood for a Mexican-inspired dinner, consider this carne picado recipe. You’ll need some typical south-of-the-border ingredients and a cast iron skillet to make steak picado with pickled onions.
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