30 Taco Recipes for Cinco de Mayo

Whether your gang likes their tacos with steak, chicken, ground beef, pork, fish, or veggies, or whether they care for them to be Americanized or straight-up Mexican street tacos, here are options aplenty to guarantee family taco night is a resounding success.

Wood bowl with tequila-lime chicken tacos, charred limes, radishes, sour cream
These easy chicken tacos, made with marinated grilled chicken and a cilantro-spiked mayonnaise, are an easy meal, perfect for weeknights or casual entertaining.
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A hand holding a grilled fish taco topped with cilantro that is wrapped in a paper napkin.
These grilled fish tacos are easy and healthy and made with cilantro, cabbage, lime, and a splash of tequila for good measure. Almost exactly like what you’d find in Baja Mexico.
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Three sweet and spicy tacos on a white plate with wedges of lime alongside.
These sweet and spicy tacos are made with ground turkey, chili powder, and orange juice. Its unusual spice is perfect for a DIY taco party.
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A platter of butternut squash tacos made with tortillas filled with strips of roasted squash, corn, cabbage, guacamole, and sour cream.
These vegan butternut squash tacos combine spicy Mexican street corn with roasted butternut squash for an outstanding vegetarian taco feast. Topped with guacamole, cabbage, cilantro, and sour cream, these tacos are ludicrously good.
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Two chipotle maple barbecue beef brisket tacos on a wooden surface.
This chipotle maple barbecue beef brisket is beef brisket is massaged with a tangy spice rub and slathered with a barbecue sauce packed with sweet heat. Balsamic vinegar, maple syrup, and chipotle all contribute to its superbly smooth flavor.
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A basket containing two Baja-style tempura fish tacos and some pickled vegetables, with a bottle of Pacifico on the side.
These Baja-style tempura fish tacos are as authentic as they come. White fish is dunked in a quick chile-lime marinade and then battered and pan-fried until crisp before being tucked in soft tortillas and topped with slaw and banana mango salsa.
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Two plates topped with kimchi tacos with glasses of beer and a bowl of guacamole on the side.
These Korean-inspired tacos are topped with beef bulgogi, kimchi, and a gochujang taco sauce.
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Man's hand holding four beef tongue tacos, or taquitos de lengua, filled with cubed meat, onions, cilantro
Yes, beef tongue tacos. DON’T click off this page! These little babies are made from beef tongue that is slowly cooked until falling apart tender then chopped and spooned atop soft corn or flour tortillas. Classic and authentic.
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A plate with a fish taco topped with creamy chipotle cabbage slow with a bowl of slaw beside it.
This fish tacos recipe with creamy chipotle cabbage slaw is made with fish, cabbage, lime, cilantro, and corn tortillas.
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Cutting board with grilled skirt steak tacos, sliced jalepenos, tortillas, lime wedges, pickled onions, cilantro
Skirt steak is one of the most flavorful cuts on the entire steer, and when grilled and sliced properly, it’s one of the best values at the butcher shop. I like my tacos on the spicy side, so I load them up with plenty of sliced jalapeño and garnish with a squeeze of fresh lime, cilantro, and pickled red onions.
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A person assembling a slow cooker barbacoa taco with a pot of shredded barbacoa meat, a small dish of onions, a bottle of hot sauce, and some cilantro around the taco plate.
These slow-cooker barbacoa tacos, filled with tender shredded meat, onions, salsa, limes, hot sauce, and cilantro is perfect comfort food any time of the day.
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Three tacos with sea scallops and jicama-peanut slaw on a white plate.
This taco with sea scallops recipe, with sea scallops, orange, jicama, red onion, cilantro, and peanuts, is a quick and easy weeknight meal.
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Two chorizo breakfast tacos with potatoes, eggs, radish, chorizo, cilantro, and Cotija cheese on a white plate.
These chorizo breakfast tacos, loaded with eggs, potatoes, radish, crumbled chorizo sausage, Cotija cheese, and cilantro, are spectacular any time of the day.
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A person assembling a pork taco in a corn tortilla with a bowl of roast pork, a bowl of salsa, and a dish of sliced radishes on the table.
These pork tacos, made with pork, beer, spices, and soft tortillas, are wicked tender and almost like tacos al pastor. Slather, bite, repeat.
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Two soft corn tacos filled with vegan cauliflower tacos al pastor--with pineapple chunks, pickled onions, cashew queso, avocado, cilantro
These vegan cauliflower tacos al pastor are jam-packed with flavor thanks to spicy cauliflower, pineapple, pickled red onions, avocado, and cashew queso. Who needs meat?! (Just kidding.)
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Two steak tacos on a wooden board with lime wedges, onion, and cilantro scattered around.
For these steak tacos, flavorful flank steak is marinated in a spicy paste of garlic, jalapeno, cumin, and cilantro and then seared until medium-rare. The tacos are garnished with pickled red onions and lime.
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A shredded beef taco bar--a wooden platter with a braised beef shank, cilantro, lime, and pickled onions
This shredded beef taco bar is a build-your-own extravaganza including braised beef, pickled red onions, lime crema, and creamy coleslaw. Pile your favorites onto a warm tortilla, devour, and repeat.
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Four ancho pork and potato tacos topped with cubed pork and potatoes, sliced radish, sour cream, and cilantro.
These ancho pork and potato tacos are a cheater’s way to have tacos on the table in just 45 minutes by relying on spice-rubbed pork chops and tender potatoes wrapped in corn tortillas.
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Three plates filled with shredded beef tacos--braised beef brisket, Cotija cheese, napa cabbage, sour cream, red onions, and cilantro on charred corn tortillas
These shredded beef tacos are made with gently spiced and braised brisket that’s smothered, as tradition calls, with cheese, sour cream, pickled red onion, cabbage, lime, and cilantro. Behold, the best brisket tacos.
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A pile of soft tortillas topped with carnitas, onion, guacamole, and cilantro. They're resting in a woven basket on a pile of blue napkins.
These carnitas tacos are made with moist, tender pork shoulder, avocado, onion, tomatillo salsa, lime, and cilantro. Great party food for a crowd, a weekend dinner, or outdoor entertaining.
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Two ancho fish tacos in a metal dish with lime wedges and chipotle mayo on the side.
These easy, healthy fish tacos are loaded with spiced grilled fish, tangy coleslaw, and a chipotle lime mayonnaise.
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Three ancho short rib tacos on flour tortillas, topped with pickled red onion and cilantro.
These ancho short rib tacos sre made with a chile and red wine marinade, tortillas, and all the usual taco fixins.
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Two BBQ pulled pork tacos in a cardboard dish with a bear and a dish of coleslaw on the side.
BBQ pulled pork tacos! The deliciously tender and slightly sweet pulled pork is heaped in a warmed tortilla with creamy chipotle slaw.
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Pulled pork tacos with habanero salas and pickled onions on flour tortillas.
An intoxicatingly spiced Yucatan pork dish is the basis for these tacos that boast layers of complex flavors in both the pulled pork and the salsa.
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A person squeezing lime juice over an open pulled pork taco.
These pulled pork tacos with apple-serrano slaw are made with shredded pork cooked with a blend of Indian spices. Taco Tuesday just got a whole heck of a lot more interesting.
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Three avocado breakfast tacos with eggs, bacon, shallots, and chives with a bowl of salsa on the side.
These avocado breakfast tacos are made with easy components—cheesy scrambled eggs, crisp bacon, cool avocado, and smoky chipotle salsa. So satisfying that they’ll be on repeat each weekend.
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Four crispy mashed potato tacos on a sheet of white paper with a couple lime wedges on the side.
These crispy mashed potato tacos, filled with crunchy cabbage, creamy mashed potatoes, fresh pico de gallo, and cilantro, are unconventional yet absolutely delicious.
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A pile of turkey taco salad piled up on a stainless steel sheet, with radishes, lettuce, cabbage, cilantro, and tortilla chips.
Turkey taco salad is an easy, gorgeously colorful, and healthy (we won’t tell, if you don’t!) dinner with a zingy cilantro-lime vinaigrette, and dressed with jicama, radishes, purple cabbage, and chiles.
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A cut sheet pan taco bake in a rimmed sheet pan topped with pico de gallo and sour cream.
This sheet pan taco bake has seasoned ground beef, onions, tomatoes, cilantro, and Cheddar and Monterey Jack cheeses enveloped in tortillas and baked until crunchy and golden. Great party food for feeding a crowd.
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