Skip to content

Order Muy Bueno: Fiestas today →

  • Father’s Day
  • All Recipes
    • By Course
      • Appetizers
      • Breads
      • Breakfast
      • Drinks
      • Entrees
      • Salads
      • Sides
      • Soups
      • Snacks
      • Salsas
      • Desserts
    • By Type
      • Tacos
      • Tamales
      • Empanadas
      • Enchiladas
    • By Method
      • Instant Pot
      • Slow Cooker
      • Grill
    • By Ingredient
      • Beef
      • Chicken
      • Pork
      • Seafood
      • Lamb
      • Turkey
      • Chorizo
      • Pasta
    • By Holiday
      • Father’s Day
      • 4th of July
      • Mexican Independence Day
      • Halloween
    • By Diet
      • Vegetarian
      • Healthy
  • Tacos
  • Tamales
  • Empanadas
  • Drinks
  • About
    • Work With Me
    • Contact
    • Press
  • Subscribe
  • Cookbooks
  • Shop
  • Videos

Home › All Mexican Recipes › Sides

Mexican Side Recipes

Every great Mexican entrée deserves great Mexican Side Recipes.

Classics include: Frijoles de la Olla, Refried Beans, Frijoles, Charros, Arroz Rojo (Mexican Rice), Cilantro Lime Rice, and Cebollitas Asadas (Grilled Green Onions).

holiday table runner on a wooden table with a large silver oval serving platter filled with savory mashed chipotle sweet potatoes.

Mashed Sweet Potatoes with Chipotle

closeup overhead shot of garlic butter rice topped with golden garlic chips and green onions.

Garlic Butter Rice

spicy poblano, hatch green chile, and bacon mac and cheese on a black and white dinner plate with a silver fork.

Spicy Green Chile Bacon Mac and Cheese

Ensalada de Coditos (Macaroni Salad) in a Mexican brown barro bowl with wooden spoon and striped napkin.

Ensalada de Coditos (Mexican Macaroni Salad)

terracotta plate with a serving of tampiqueña steak topped with caramalized onions and roasted peppers

Carne a la Tampiqueña (Mexican Steak)

overhead shot of a hand thrown brown serving bowl filled with dill pickle macaroni salad with cheese and spam.

Easy Macaroni Salad with Cheese, Spam, & Dill Pickles

multiple mason jars filled with Mexican escabeche on a wooden cutting board with the closest one with a spoon in it fishing out a serving.

Escabeche (Pickled Jalapeños)

black fluted bowl filled with better-than-Chipotle cilantro lime rice.

Cilantro Lime Rice

closeup shot of carne asada salad in a terracotta serving bowl.

Healthy Carne Asada Steak Salad

45 degree angle shot of a black plate with a green rim filled with a serving of fideo seco topped with avocado slices, a drizzle of crema, and a sprinkle of queso fresco.

Fideo Seco

blue and green painted scalloped bowl filled with homemade crema mexicana on a grey table with a few fresh lime wedges to the side.

Crema Mexicana (Mexican-Style Sour Cream)

overhead shot of 2 blue and white painted bowls of meaty macaroni and cheese with ground bison on a wooden cutting board.

Meaty Macaroni and Cheese with Ground Bison

overhead shot of a glass mason jar filled with parsley cilantro chimichurri sauce with a wooden spoonful of it in focus and the jar and fresh herbs out of focus below it.

Parsley-Cilantro Chimichurri Sauce

closeup hero shot of roasted butternut squash quinoa salad flecked with pomegranate arils and garnished with fresh parsley.

Roasted Butternut Squash Quinoa Salad

Homemade Cranberry Sauce With Orange Juice & Pomegranate Seeds

Serving platter of roasted butternut squash, burssels sprouts, red onions, and pomegranate seeds with a silver serving spoon.

Oven Roasted Butternut Squash & Brussels Sprouts

Waldorf Salad with Yogurt (No Mayo!)

Blistered Shishito Peppers with sea salt in a cast iron skillet.

Blistered Shishito Peppers

mexican street corn in a mason jar with turquoise spoon.

Elote en Vaso (a.k.a. Esquites)

Mexican Pickled Onions (Cebollas en Escabeche)

Posts navigation

  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • …
  • 5
  • Go to Next Page
Back to top
Muy Bueno
  • Home
  • About
  • Contact
  • My Books
  • Recipe Index
  • Work With Me

©2025 Muy Bueno. All rights reserved. Privacy Policy • Accessibility Statement • Powered by CultivateWP.