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Southwest / New Mexican Food Recipes

Southwestern and New Mexico cuisine is built on tradition, technique, and bold chile flavor. From rich red chile sauces made from dried pods to roasted green chile dishes that define New Mexico cooking, these recipes focus on time-honored methods and authentic ingredients.

Here you'll find classic New Mexico recipes, chile-based sauces, and Southwestern favorites, many rooted in family cooking and regional traditions. Whether you're cooking with red chile, green chile, or Hatch chiles, these recipes are designed to teach technique while delivering unforgettable flavor.

These recipes draw inspiration from New Mexico, Colorado, Northern Mexico traditions.

Hatch Chile Recipes

Hatch chiles are more than an ingredient, they're a season, a tradition, and a point of pride. Grown in the Hatch Valley of southern New Mexico, these green chiles are known for their unmistakable flavor: earthy, slightly sweet, and ranging from mild to fiery hot depending on the harvest.

This collection of Hatch chile recipes focuses on dishes where roasted green chile peppers take center stage. From sauces and stews to comfort food classics and everyday meals, these recipes showcase how Hatch chiles can be used in your kitchen.

Southwest Appetizers

Traditional New Mexican Red Chile Sauces

Red chile sauce is the backbone of New Mexican cooking, bold, earthy, and deeply rooted in tradition. Made from dried red chile pods or New Mexico Red Chile Powder they aren’t a salsa or a dip. It's a cooked sauce meant to be spooned generously over enchiladas, tamales, carne adovada, eggs, and anything that deserves to be "smothered in red."

Southwestern Salsas and Dips

Any Mexican kitchen isn’t complete without a lineup of salsas and dipa to complete that Southwestern Meal.

Southwestern Breakfast Recipes

Burrito Recipes

Burritos are delicious and hearty, a tightly wrapped bundle of love, brimming with versatile and endless filling options. Whether those fillings be rice and beans, oozing with cheese, and your favorite meats, everyone loves a burrito. Here are some of our favorite Southwestern burrito recipes

Tostada Recipes

Southwestern Quesadilla Recipes

Quesadillas are about the easiest lunch, dinner or snack going. Here are a few of our favorites.

Enchilada Recipes

I’ve always said, If someone makes enchiladas for you, it means they love you! A labor of love that is worth every single bite. Take a look at these recipes.

Green Chili with Pork. Colorado style with plenty of Hatch Green Chile and unique spices.

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Hatch Green Chili Recipe with Pork

This Award Winning Pork Green Chili Recipe is comfort food at its best and one of our favorite Hatch green chili recipes.

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Southwestern Side Dish Recipes

Main Course Southwestern Chicken Recipes

Southwestern Beef Dishes

Southwestern Main Course Pork Recipes

Seafood Recipes

New Mexico Carne Adovada recipe served with beans and rice.

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Authentic New Mexico Carne Adovada

Once you try this recipe for Carne Adovada, you'll understand why its one of New Mexico's most celebrated dishes. 

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Mexican and Southwest Soup Recipes

Mexican Dessert Recipes

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