What to Serve with Fajitas

What to serve with fajitas? Whip up a crisp green salad! This Mexican-style salad is a chopped salad with Tex Mex flavors: colorful veggies, cilantro lime salad dressing, and tortilla strips. It all combines into a super-flavorful dish that can be served as a side, or dressed up to work as a healthy main dish salad. Top with creamy cilantro dressing or cilantro lime dressing and crispy tortilla strips (or substitute crushed chips).

Add cilantro, lime juice and lime zest to your rice, it catapults it to an entirely different level! The ways to serve it are endless: use it as a side to go with tacos, burrito bowls, enchiladas, grilled shrimp skewers, and more. It’s incredibly versatile, and we find ourselves making it often. Really, any meal is better with a little cilantro lime rice!

Of course, one of the easiest fajita side dishes is guacamole and chips! Guacamole is like potato salad and coleslaw: everyone has their family favorite recipe. And this simple guacamole is ours. It’s a home run every time! When we serve it, a chorus of “Wow’s” fill the room. What makes it so great? It’s classic and has the perfect balanced flavor: perfectly savory, creamy, and tangy. For a dinner party, serve with Homemade Tortilla Chips warm from the oven.

Here's another great side to serve with fajitas: cucumber tomato avocado salad! This one is all about the ingredients: ripe and juicy tomatoes, cool cucumbers, and creamy avocado. They’re mixed with lime juice and cilantro for a tangy pop that perfectly accentuates their flavors. This one is great as a side dish for any meal; it specifically jives well with Latin-style flavors with the lime and cilantro. 

It’s not superlative when we say this bean dip might be the very easiest recipe we’ve ever created. Beans, salsa, and cheese come together into the creamiest, gooiest piping hot mess. Dunk in crunchy chips and it tastes remarkably like the queso from your favorite Mexican joint. With just 3 ingredients, the flavor is more irresistibly complex than you’d imagine. But to really understand the magic here: you’ve got to taste it.

Another idea of what to serve with fajitas...Mexican-style slaw! It has no mayo, and instead focuses on fresh flavors: crunchy cabbage, red onion, cilantro, and cumin. It’s got both cumin seed and ground cumin for a double hit of flavor.

The best refried beans? Homemade refried beans! The flavor and texture are loads better than the canned ones you can find at the store. (At least, the brands we’ve tried!) So when we have time, we love making refried beans at home. It’s seriously simple. Or, open up a can of your favorite refried beans and add a little cumin, garlic powder, and chili powder: even easier!

Also try: Easy Instant Pot Refried Beans, Refried Black Beans, or Instant Pot Pinto Beans

This Mexican-style will absolutely blow your mind. The smoky flavor in each bite makes it impossible not to take another bite! The flavors here are reminiscent of Mexican street corn: a creamy sauce flavored with mayo, lime, chili powder and cumin. Mix in a few colorful veggies and a bit of feta cheese if you’d like, and you’ve got a sweet savory salad that’s bursting with summer flavor. Make it with grilled corn, or it also works with canned or frozen (or, try to find frozen fire roasted).

Elote is the perfect side dish, if you ask us. One bite of this irresistible Mexican grilled corn and you’ll be a believer: it’s sweet, smoky, savory, creamy, and tangy: all at once. It’s charred perfection and slathered in a creamy spiced sauce with cheese crumbles. (Of course, it’s best on the street in Mexico!). Serve it with fajitas, shrimp tacos, grilled fish, or a good old burger.

Last but not least in what to serve with fajitas: good old chips and salsa! Grab your favorite store-bought red salsa, unless you have time and ripe tomatoes. If so, try our best homemade salsa recipe: fresh garden tomatoes, cilantro, and lots of lime. For a next level experience, make it with warm Homemade Tortilla Chips.