With these animal-based recipes for Cinco de Mayo, you can make a variation of the festive foods you know and love – chips, tacos, and yes, even ‘bean’ dip – using whole, nutrient-dense foods and without sacrificing taste or pleasure.
Cinco de Mayo was always one of my favorite holidays to celebrate as it was an excuse to stuff my face with burritos, nachos, and lots of sour cream and cheese. (Read more about my Mexican food obsession here.)
In this post, you will find 7 animal-based recipes to help you celebrate Cinco de Mayo, but without all of the crap ingredients like seed oils and processed sugar. All of these meat-based recipes (and the rest of the recipes on this website) use animal-based ingredients, like beef, pork, chicken, uncured meats, organ meats, animal fats, some low toxicity fruits and vegetables, and (optional) zero carb condiments, herbs, and spices.
Looking for carnivore recipes? Click here to see 14 of my most popular carnivore recipes, including bread, chips, fried chicken, and pizza!
Click the graphic below to check out all of my animal-based recipes, or keep scrolling to see the ones that I recommend for an animal-based Cinco de Mayo.
Beanless ‘Bean’ Dip
This beanless ‘bean’ dip is animal-based, has a wonderful texture, and is full of protein, flavor, and nutrient-dense ingredients.
Ingredients:
- Chuck roast stew meat
- Kabocha squash
- Water
- Lime juice
- Pureed garlic (optional, but highly recommended if tolerated)
- Sea salt (ASHLEYR for 15% off)
Get the recipe here.
Onion-Free Guacamole
Just like the hearty, tangy, and salty guacamole you know and love, but with cucumber instead of onion!
Ingredients:
Get the recipe here.
Pineapple Pico de Gallo
A simpler and healthier tomato-free and onion-free salsa with just five ingredients!
Ingredients:
- Fresh pineapple chunks
- Apples
- Lime
- Cilantro
- Sea salt (ASHLEYR for 15% off)
Get the recipe here.
Carnivore Tortillas
These tortillas are light, bendy, faintly crispy, and hold together well for tacos, wraps, or whatever!
Ingredients:
- Eggs (ASHLEY20 for 20% off)
- Pork rinds
- Grass-fed ghee (or butter)
- Sea salt (ASHLEYR for 15% off)
- Water
Get the recipe here.
Chicken Bacon Tacos
These tacos are light and flavorful! The Carnivore Tortillas are light, bendy, faintly crispy, and hold all the fixings together well, and the Honey Mustard – tangy and just the right amount of sweet – is a perfect complement to the fatty chicken thigh-bacon base.
Ingredients:
For the Honey Mustard:
- Duck fat
- Eggs (ASHLEY20 for 20% off)
- Lemon
- Apple cider vinegar
- Dijon mustard
- Sea salt (ASHLEYR for 15% off)
- Manuka honey (ASHLEYR for 10% off) (optional)
- Yellow mustard
For the Carnivore Tortillas:
- Eggs (ASHLEY20 for 20% off)
- Pork rinds
- Grass-fed ghee (or butter)
- Sea salt (ASHLEYR for 15% off)
- Water
For the Chicken Bacon Tacos:
- Chicken thighs
- Bacon
- Grass-fed ghee
- Avocados
- Cabbage
- Cilantro
- Lime juice
Get the recipe here.
Tropical Taco Bowls
Inspired by my favorite ‘Special Diets’ tacos at Picnik Austin, these taco bowls have a savory chicken thigh-bacon base, and are topped with crunchy purple cabbage, onion-free + tomato-free Pineapple Pico De Gallo Salsa, and Onion-Free Guacamole.
Ingredients:
For the Onion-Free Guacamole:
For the Pineapple Pico De Gallo Salsa:
- Fresh pineapple chunks
- Apples
- Lime
- Cilantro
- Sea salt (ASHLEYR for 15% off)
For the Tropical Taco Bowls:
- Chicken thighs
- Bacon
- Purple cabbage
Get the recipe here.
Pork Belly Chips
These chips are salty, hard, and crunchy just like you would expect from a standard chip, but the occasional piece may surprise you with a wonderful melt-in-your-mouth texture.
Ingredients:
- Pork belly (thinly sliced like thick cuts of bacon, preferably; pictured on recipe page)
- Sea salt
Get the recipe here.
Ashley Rothstein develops tasty, whole food, animal-based recipes that include a moderate amount of “minimally toxic” plant foods. To fix her own health issues, she bounced around between the carnivore, keto, and paleo diets for a few years. After experiencing and studying each diet philosophy, she learned she feels her best by merging the three and following an animal-based diet. As a glut at heart, she likes to channel her creativity and create meals that are healthy but also satisfy her inner gluttonous spirits.
