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Karen Martini's pork loin fajitas with pineapple and corn salsa and guacamole.

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Mexican recipes: tacos, burritos, fajitas, nachos and more

There's pineapple-marinated pork tucked away in soft tortillas. Or prawn tacos jacked up with chilli and a squirt of lime. There's even a nacho cake. From the traditional to the spin-offs, these Mexican inspired recipes will liven up any fiesta.

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Hands-on feasting: Pork fajitas with pineapple and corn salsa, guacamole and sour cream.

Pork loin fajitas with pineapple and corn salsa and guacamole

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Karen Martini
Pork and pineapple filling for tacos.

Tacos al pastor (pork and pineapple tacos)

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Danielle Alvarez
Ingredients for chunky guacamole.
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Guacamole

  • < 30 mins
  • Danielle Alvarez
Chunky, hearty chilli con carne.

The ultimate chilli con carne

  • 2 hrs +
  • Jill Dupleix
Beef taco rice with creamy, spicy avo dressing (top left).

Beef taco rice traybake with spicy avocado dressing

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
Neil Perry's chicken flautas with sweetcorn and avocado salsa.

Mexican chicken flautas with sweetcorn and avocado salsa recipe

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Neil Perry
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This bean salad with lime and haloumi also works as a vegetarian taco filling.
EASY

Mexican cannellini bean salad with lime and haloumi recipe

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Jill Dupleix's guacamole.
EASY

DIY guacamole

  • < 30 mins
Nacho cake.

Nacho cake: Mexican tortilla layer bake with chilli jam

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Bryan Martin
Neil Perry's adobo-marinated chicken tacos.
EASY

Adobo-marinated chicken tacos

  • Neil Perry
Carne asada beef tacos.

Carne asada beef tacos

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
Camarones borrachos.

Camarones borrachos recipe (drunken prawns with mezcal tomato sauce)

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Neil Perry
Sexy Mexy: Chicken tinga with tortillas.

Chicken tinga with tortillas

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Jill Dupleix
Mexican corn.
EASY

Adam Liaw's Mexican corn

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Skip the weird ingredients lists and make enchilada sauce from scratch.
EASY

Easy chicken enchiladas

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Katrina Meynink
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Mexican style pork and chickpea soup

Neil Perry's Mexican pork and chickpea soup

  • 2 hrs +
  • Neil Perry
King prawns in green salsa.
EASY

King prawns in green salsa

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Neil Perry
For a Mexican-inspired feast, serve this simplified chicken mole with with braised beans, guacamole, tortillas, corn salsa and creme fraiche.

Karen Martini's chicken and scorched chilli mole

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Karen Martini
Heuvos rancheros

Huevos rancheros

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Neil Perry
Neil Perry's caramel flan with peaches.

Mexican-style caramel flan with peaches recipe

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Neil Perry
Perfect for entertaining: Braised chopped chicken with soft tortillas.

Spiced chicken tortillas

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Karen Martini
Frank Camorra: Nachos with feta and pepita sauce.
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Nachos with feta and pepita and chipotle sauce

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
Adam Liaw's easy guacamole.
EASY

Easy guacamole

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Soft tacos with smoky shredded pork.

Soft tacos with smoky shredded pork

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Caroline Velik
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burrito
EASY

Skirt steak burritos

  • < 30 mins
  • Kristy Komadina
Slow-cooked beef brisket for tacos.

Slow-cooked brisket tacos with grilled spring onion and tomatillo salsa

  • 2 hrs +
  • Hagen's Organics
Smoky chickpea, aubergine and tomato one pot.

Smoky chickpea, eggplant and tomato one-pot casserole taco filling recipe

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Rachel Khoo
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Chicken adobo for tacos

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Neil Perry
Lip-smacking beer braised ribs wrapped in a soft flour tortillas.
EASY

Stout-braised short rib tacos with red onion salsa recipe

  • 2 hrs +
  • Adam Liaw
Grilled flathead fillet for tacos
EASY

Grilled flathead for tacos

  • < 30 mins
  • Neil Perry
Olivia Andrews' slow- cooker recipe: Smoky black-eye pea and corn tacos.
EASY

Slow-cooker smoky black eye pea and corn tacos

  • 2 hrs +
  • Olivia Andrews
Aromatic salad
EASY

Aromatic salad

  • < 30 mins
  • Neil Perry
Warm steak salad with chipotle dressing.
EASY

Warm steak salad with chipotle dressing

  • < 30 mins
  • Neil Perry
Neil Perry's duck carnitos taco.

Duck carnitas tacos

  • 2 hrs +
Good Food. Hot Food Column. Jill Dupleix. Jan 22, 2013. Corn with Chipotle Mayo. Photo: Edwina Pickles. 19th Dec 2012.
EASY

Grilled corn with chipotle mayo

  • < 30 mins
  • Jill Dupleix
Chicken enchiladas.

Quick chicken enchiladas

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Neil Perry

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