8 Mother’s Day Recipes to Serve With Amor y Sabor

Mother’s Day recipes are three of our favorite words at Familia Kitchen. Cooking is our love language, so the first mention of Mother’s Day gets our minds spinning right to which special dish to make Mom on her dedicated día this year.

What can we whip up in our kitchens this and every Mother’s Day to show her our amor? To thank her for all she does and who she is. It’s gotta be extra good. Our mom-menu quest sent us deep into our Famila Kitchen archives in search of worthy dishes.

Here are 8 of our favorite Mother’s Day recipes for Sunday brunch and dinner — or whenever you and yours are getting together to celebrate the Mom in your life.

Make Mom a Margarita That’s Easy & Amazing

This margarita is one of our most popular recipes ever. It’s a guaranteed-great, super-easy cocktail from our favorite tequila connoisseur and super mom MariCarmen Ortiz Conway of St. Louis, Missouri. It’s surprising ingredient in it is … frozen limeade. (You thought we were going to say fresh lime, right?) It tastes like it, but we love the frozen-drink time-saving hack.

All of us at Familia Kitchen listened very carefully and with much respeto to Mexico City-born MariCarmen when she walked us through her recipe for making this amazing margarita. She is the real deal: A true tequila connoisseur and educator, with the credentials to back it up. So when MariCarmen says this margarita is guaranteed to wow, we believe it. Every time she makes it, friends and family ask her for the receta. Check out the recipe here.

Start the Fiesta With Shrimp Ceviche

Ceviche is great for brunch, dinner and everything in between. We love this recipe with camarones sent to us by Bex Streeper, one of our favorite Puerto Rican-Mexican food homecooks. ”This shrimp ceviche was created for a very special person in my familia,” she explains. ”When I married my husband, almost 16 years ago, I gained a new friend and confidante, mi suegra Yolanda — or Yonnie to her friends y familia . She has been more than just my mother-in-law. Ella es mi mamá. We often cook together en la cocina.”

“This past Mother’s Day, I wanted to thank her for being the alma y corazón of our familia. Mom has never eaten ceviche before, so I was pleased that she loved my dish.” Bex cures the shrimp in two types of citrus juices: lime and lemon. And then, for a touch of extra, she adds a third juice: Mango. It’s unusual, and triple delicioso. Her mother in law is now its biggest fan. Our Familia Kitchen community loves it too, voting this shrimp recipe the winner of our Your Favorite Ceviche Recipe Contest — against strong competition, too! Check out Bex’s beautiful recipe here.

Go Big for Brunch Option 1: Gracie’s Famous Chilaquiles

Gracie González of Illinois learned how to make these chilaquiles verdes watching her mother and abuela in San Luis Potosí in the kitchen. They are the real deal and famous in her family of excellent cooks, including Gollita, one of our favorite abuela cocineras—Gracie’s mom!

Go Big for Brunch Option 2: Anjie’s Huevos Rancheros

These huevos rancheros are a “flavor explosion,” promises Anjie Villalobos, one of our favorite Mexican-food homecooks. Best of all: her family-famous recipe can be prepared in less than 15 minutes and has just three main ingredients.  “I never tire of making it or eating this dish,” Anjie says. The ingredients are staples in her Southern California kitchen: eggs, salsa and corn tortillas. Using Angie’s homemade salsa takes this dish to the next level, says this mom of two and abuela of three.

Main Mom Meal 1: My Mom’s Arroz con Pollo With Roasted Red Peppers

Speaking of mothers, this is the arroz con pollo that I grew up eating in Puerto Rico and the first-ever recipe my mom Marisa taught me to cook. It was her dinner party go-to dish and it is literally, for me, the taste of home and childhood. It’s also a one-pot wonder: flavorful, savory, hearty — with a healthy serving of nostalgia and sofrito in every bite. Gracias, Mami. Feliz día de las madres to Marisa and all nuestras mamás.

Mom Main Meal 2: Romantic Chicken Enchiladas de Mole

Three generations of women in Familia Kitchen contributing cocinera Patricia Lopez-Piotrowski’s family have made these enchiladas de pollo de mole for the men they loved. And all three were proposed to soon thereafter. One of the three was the now-based-in-Oregon Patricia herself. As she tells it, after her boyfriend was served this dish on a trip with her to her mother’s: “He loved them and proposed a few weeks later — making me promise that I would make these enchiladas regularly for him throughout our marriage.” And she has.

Delicioso Dessert 1: This Coconut Bienmesabe Takes the Cake

Bienmesabe is a spectacular Venezuelan dessert that can change your life — it’s that magnificent to look at and savor, says one of our favorite homecooks, Liliana Hernández of Illinois. It is a creamy, light-as-air delicate cake drenched in syrup, filled with a delicious coconut-based cream, topped with meringue, and sprinkled with cinnamon. Some like to add a touch of liquor. If you want to go big and serve a cake that gets oohs and ahhs from your Mom and the crowd, this is it.

Delicioso Dessert 2: Easy, Freezy Margarita Pie

Unlike bienmesabe cake, which takes all día to make, sometimes you just want a delish dessert you can throw together in 10 minutes — to rave reviews. If fast is your postre preference, check out this quick and easy margarita pie sent to us by businesswoman and mom Maria Castro of Illinois, the powerhouse woman behind Love Purse. Here’s the basics: Mix together tequila, triple sec, condensed milk, whipping cream, lime juice and a little green food coloring. Spoon it into a premade graham-cracker crust and freeze it overnight. That’s it! The result is a frozen tequila concoction you can serve to feed and toast Mom at the same time on Mother’s Day.

Familia Kitchen is honored to serve up these community favorite Mother’s Day recipes to help you celebrate the Mom in your life. For muchos más delicioso and traditional dishes to make for Mother’s Day — and Father’s Day, which is coming up fast!

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