El Jimador Mexican Grill Menu (2025 Update)
Welcome to El Jimador Mexican Grill, a culinary gem located at 121 Homer Rd, Minden, LA. Renowned for its inviting atmosphere and delightful flavors, El Jimador offers a menu that celebrates traditional Mexican cuisine with a modern twist.
The highlights of the menu include the Ranchero Specials, featuring the delectable Ranchero Desoto, which combines grilled chicken, bacon, shrimp, and steak for only US$15.50. Seafood lovers will appreciate the Ranchero Seafood dish, filled with scallops, shrimp, and crab, also priced at US$15.50. Vegetarians are not left out, with the Ranchero Vegetariano delighting with a colorful assortment of fresh vegetables for just US$11.99.
The quesadilla selection, such as the Quesadilla Jimador, provides a comforting palate of grilled chicken and bacon enveloped in a warm flour tortilla. Add to that the Street Tacos served with your choice of meats, and you'll find yourself in a Mexican food paradise.
Chimichangas
Chimichanga
A stuffed flour tortilla with your choice of ground beef or shredded chicken, deep-fried to a crispy golden glaze and covered with cheese sauce. Served with lettuce, sour cream, guacamole, pico de gallo, rice, and beans.
Chimichanga Balboa
Stuffed flour tortilla with steak, grilled chicken, and shrimp, deep-fried to a golden brown and topped with cheese sauce. Served with lettuce, sour cream, guacamole, pico de gallo, rice, and beans.
Shrimp Chimichanga
A flour tortilla loaded with grilled shrimp, onion, bell pepper, and tomato, deep-fried to a crispy golden glaze and covered in cheese sauce. Served with lettuce, sour cream, guacamole, pico de gallo, rice, and beans.
Guacamole Mexicano
Featured Item
Appetizers
Nachos With Beef
Quesadilla (Single)
Chicken, beef, or mushrooms.
Nachos With Chicken
Quesadilla Cheese
Quesadilla (Double)
Chicken, beef, or mushrooms.
Surf & Turf Dip
A delicious dish of grilled chicken, steak, and shrimp, smothered in melted cheese and tortillas.
Nachos With Beans
Guacamole
Bean Dip
Nachos With Beef & Beans
Cheese Dip
Substitution cheese dip for salsa for an additional charge.
Sampler
Beef nachos, beef enchiladas, chicken quesadilla, chicken taquito, and guacamole salad.
Nachos With Cheese
Tortilla Soup
Our special house recipe tortilla soup stocked with rice, avocado, and pico de gallo.
Shrimp Soup
Delicious house soup with boiled shrimp, rice, avocado, and pico de gallo.
Chicken Soup
Chicken broth loaded with shredded chicken, rice, avocado, and pico de gallo.
Vegetarian Soup
Delicious house soup with rice, avocado, pico de gallo, broccoli, cauliflower, carrots, and squash.
Soups
A la Carte
Enchiladas
Chicken, beef, or cheese.
Tamale
Chimichanga
Chicken, beef, shrimp, or steak for an additional charge.
Soft Taco Fajita Meat
Burrito
Beans, chicken, or beef for an additional charge.
Soft Taco
Tostaguac
A flat crispy corn tortilla covered with beef, beans, lettuce, cheese, sliced tomatoes, and guacamole. served with rice and beans.
Tostada
Beef.
Taco
Chicken or beef.
Chile Poblano Pepper
Nachos Monterrey
Cheese nachos with grilled chicken, beans, and along with pico de gallo.
Nachos Michoacan
New. Cheese nachos topped with beans, grilled chicken, steak, and bacon.
Nachos Jimador
Cheese nachos with ground beef and shredded chicken and beans, covered with lettuce, tomato, and sour cream.
Nachos Mexicanos
Cheese nachos made with your choice of grilled chicken or steak with sauteed onion and bell pepper.
Nachos (Mexican Grill)
Vegetarian
D. One Bean Burrito. Quesadilla & Chalupa
G. Vegetarian Quesadilla
A grilled jumbo flour tortilla, filled with cheese, mushroom, and spinach. Served with broccoli, cauliflower, carrots, and squash.
B. Two Bean Burritos
With cheese sauce.
H. Nachos Vegetarianos
Cooked grilled onion, tomato, bell pepper, and mushrooms. Served with broccoli, cauliflower, carrots, squash, and pico de gallo.
A. One Chalupa, One Cheese Enchilada
Served with beans.
F. Vegetarian Fajitas
Cooked onion, tomato, bell pepper, and mushroom. Served with broccoli, cauliflower, carrot, and squash.
E. One Poblano Pepper Stuffed With Cheese & One Bean Burrito
Served with rice and beans.
Jimador Steak
12 oz. rib-eye steak covered with cheese sauce.
Carne Asada Plate
Grilled skirt steak to the original mexican way, with sauteed onion. One cheese enchilada covered with red sauce. Served with beans, rice, guacamole, salad, and tortillas.
El Valle Especial
6 oz. grilled chicken breast and 6 oz. skirt steak. One cheese enchilada covered with red sauce. Served with rice, beans, guacamole, salsa, and tortillas.
Steak Mexicano
12 oz. rib-eye steak topped with sauteed onion, bell pepper, and tomato.
Desoto Steak
12 oz. rib eye steak cooked with bacon, mushroom, onions, and covered with cheese sauce.
Steak & Shrimp
Grilled 12 oz. rib-eye and shrimp with sauteed onion, pepper, and tomato.
Steaks
Ranchero Specials
Ranchero Shrimp
Grilled shrimp.
Ranchero
Chicken, steak, or mix for an additional charge.
Ranchero Vegetariano
Grilled mushrooms, spinach, bell pepper, tomato, onion, broccoli, cauliflower, carrot, and squash.
Ranchero Desoto
Grilled chicken, bacon, shrimp, and steak.
Ranchero Seafood
Grilled scallops, shrimp, and crab.
Ranchero Jalisco
Grilled shrimp, steak, and chicken.
Fiesta Salad
Grilled chicken, topped with shredded cheese, lettuce, tomato, onion, and bell pepper.
Taco Salad
A crispy flour tortilla bowl of lettuce, tomato, beans, guacamole, and sour cream with your choice of ground beef or shredded chicken.
Tossed Salad
A bed of lettuce, topped with tomato and shredded cheese and dressing.
Fajita Taco Salad
Your choice of steak, grilled chicken, or mixed with bell pepper, onion, tomato, beans, lettuce, guacamole, and sour cream.
Shrimp Taco Salad
A crispy flour tortilla bowl of bell pepper, onion, tomato, lettuce, shredded cheese, sour cream, guacamole, and mouthwatering grilled shrimp.
Guacamole Salad
A bed of lettuce, topped with tomato and shredded cheese with fresh homemade guacamole.
Seafood Salad
Lettuce, tomato, onion, and avocado, topped with crab, scallops and shrimp, and shredded cheese.
Ensaladas / Salads
Pollo / Chicken
Pollo Adobado
Tender grilled strips of chicken in a creamy cheese sauce and spinach.
Quails
New. Two dip fried quails served on a bed of grilled bell peppers and onions.
Pollo Tapatio
12 oz. grilled boneless chicken breast topped with bacon, mushrooms, and cheese sauce.
Pollo Mexicano
12 oz. grilled boneless chicken breast with sauteed onion and bell pepper.
Pollo El Jimador
12 oz. grilled boneless chicken breast covered with cheese sauce.
Pollo Chihuahua
12 oz. grilled boneless chicken breast and sliced ham covered in cheese sauce.
Pollo Desoto
12 oz. grilled boneless chicken breast and chorizo, with sauteed mushroom, onion, and cheese.
Pollo Y Camaron
12 oz. grilled boneless chicken breast and shrimp with sauteed onion, bell pepper, and tomato covered with cheese sauce.
Quesadilla Rellena
A flour tortilla with your choice of ground beef or shredded chicken with beans. Served with lettuce, guacamole, sour cream, pico de gallo, and rice.
Fajita Quesadilla
A flour tortilla with melted cheese and your choice of steak, grilled chicken, shrimp, or mix, with beans, sauteed onion, and bell pepper. Served with lettuce, guacamole, sour cream, pico de gallo, and rice.
Quesadilla Jimador
New. A flour tortilla with melted cheese, grilled chicken, and bacon. Served with rice and beans.
Quesadillas (Mexican Grill)
Fajitas
Desoto's Fajitas
Grilled chicken, steak, bacon, and shrimp.
Jalisco's Fajitas
Grilled chicken, steak, and shrimp.
Chicken & Shrimp Fajitas
Grilled chicken and shrimp.
Fajitas (Grilled Chicken)
Shrimp Fajitas
Grilled shrimp.
El Jimador's Parrillada
Strips of grilled chicken, pork, steak strips, shrimp, and chorizo.
Fajitas (Steak)
Mix Fajitas (Steak & Grilled Chicken)
Churros
Chimichanga Cheesecake
Flan
Traditional Mexico city style, cream caramel.
Fried Ice Cream
Scoop of ice cream with sugar, corn flakes, cinnamon, covered with whipped cream, strawberry, chocolate topping, and cherry on top.
Sopapilla
A flour tortilla deep-fried to a golden brown and topped with honey, butter, and cinnamon. Served with a scoop of ice cream.
Desserts
Enchiladas
Enchilada Supremas
Four corn tortillas: beef, chicken, cheese, and beans, covered with enchilada sauce, tomato, and sour cream.
Enchiladas Rancheras
Three cheese enchiladas topped with shredded beef, cooked tomato, onion, and bell pepper all covered in enchilada sauce. Served with a guacamole salad and rice.
Green Enchiladas
Three enchiladas: cheese, chicken, and beef, covered in both green sauce. Served with rice and beans.
Enchiladas Tipicas
Three cheese enchiladas topped with grilled chicken or steak, covered with cheese sauce, lettuce, tomato, sour cream, and rice.
Enchiladas Mexicanas
Three enchiladas: one beef with enchilada sauce, one cheese covered in cheese sauce, and one chicken covered in green sauce. Served with rice and beans.
Yolandas
Three chicken or beef enchiladas covered with cheese sauce. Served with rice.
Ranchero Vegetariano
Grilled mushrooms and spinach.
Ranchero
Chicken, steak, or mix for an additional charge.
Ranchero Seafood
Grilled scallops, shrimp, and crab meat.
Ranchero Shrimp
Grilled shrimp.
Ranchero Jalisco
Grilled shrimp, chicken, and steak.
Ranchero Desoto
Grilled chicken, bacon, shrimp, and steak.
Ranchero Specials (Lunch)
Seafood
Shrimp Nachos
Cheese nachos topped with grilled shrimp, covered with sauteed onion and bell pepper.
Fish Tacos (3)
Grilled tilapia soft tacos, served with white rice, lettuce, guacamole, and tomato.
Seafood Nachos
Cheese nachos topped with grilled shrimp, scallops, and crab, covered with sauteed onion and bell pepper.
Seafood Enchiladas
Three cheese enchiladas topped with shrimp, scallops, and crab meat covered in cheese sauce, lettuce, tomato, sour cream, and white rice.
Seafood Fajitas
Shrimp, scallop, crab meat with onion, bell pepper, and tomato. Garnished with lettuce, guacamole, sour cream, and pico de gallo. Served with flour tortillas, beans, and white rice.
Salmon
Seasoned grilled salmon, served with white rice and sauteed broccoli, cauliflower, carrots, and squash.
Camarones A La Diabla
Shrimp with dry chile spicy.
Shrimp Cocktail
Shrimp in a special cocktail sauce mixed with onion, tomato, cilantro, and avocado.
Tilapia Fillet
Grilled tilapia fillet, covered with tomato, onion, and bell pepper. Served with a guacamole salad and white rice.
Camarones Al Ajillo
Grilled shrimp with chopped garlic and melted butter. Served with white rice, lettuce, slices of fresh avocado, onion, and tomato.
Burrito De Carnitas
A flour tortilla loaded with pork tips covered with cheese sauce, pico de gallo, and sour cream.
Burrito El Jimador
A large flour tortilla filled with seasoned ground beef or shredded chicken covered with red sauce lettuce tomatoes, sour cream, and shredded cheese. Served with rice and beans.
Burrito Barcelona
One chicken burrito and one chicken enchilada covered with red sauce. Topped with lettuce, sour cream, pico de gallo, and guacamole.
Burrito Mexicano
A flour tortilla stuffed with shredded beef or chicken, covered with cheese sauce. Served with lettuce, tomato, and guacamole.
Burrito Los Lagos
One jumbo flour tortilla wrapped around rice, beans, lettuce, sour cream, guacamole, pico de gallo, and your choice of ground beef or shredded chicken covered with cheese sauce.
Burrito Cortez
One jumbo flour tortilla wrapped around marinated strips of steak or grilled chicken, covered in cheese sauce. Served with lettuce, sour cream, guacamole, and pico de gallo.
Burrito Balboa
One jumbo flour tortilla wrapped around rice, beans, lettuce, sour cream, guacamole, pico de gallo and your choice of marinated strips of steak or grilled chicken covered with cheese sauce.
Burrito Reyes
Two flour tortillas filled with your choice of steak or grilled chicken, covered with both green and cheese sauce. Served with rice.
Burritos
Street Tacos
Soft Tacos (Order Of 3)
Soft corn or flour tortilla. Served with onion, cilantro, red, and green salsa on the side. Choice of steak and chorizo or mix, barbacoa, carnitas, chicken (recommended corn tortilla), shrimp, or tilapia (recommended flour tortilla).
Coffee
Iced Tea
Soft Drinks
Coke, Diet Coke, Sprite, Root Beer, Dr Pepper, Orange Fanta, or Pink Lemonade.
Milk
Drinks
Child's Plates
6. Child's Pollo El Jimador
4 oz. grilled boneless chicken breast covered with cheese sauce.
2. Burrito
Covered with red sauce, served with rice and beans.
1. Enchilada
Covered in red sauce, served with rice and beans.
8. Chicken Strips
With French fries.
4. Nachos
Covered in cheese with ground beef or shredded chicken.
5. One Taco
Hard or soft taco, served with rice and beans.
7. Cheeseburger
With lettuce, tomatoes, and French fries.
3. Cheese Quesadilla
Served with rice and beans.
Molcajete Jimador (For Two)
Grilled chicken strips, steak, shrimp, bell pepper, onion, and tomato, covered with tomatillo salsa and cheese sauce, presented in an authentic mexican stone bowl. Served with a guacamole salad, flour tortillas, rice, and beans.
Tamales El Jimador
Three beef tamales covered with cheese sauce. Served with lettuce, tomato, sour cream, and rice.
Chile Verde
Choice of chicken, beef chunks, or pork tips with green tomatillo sauce. Served with rice, beans, and tortillas.
Taquitos Mexicanos
Three deep-fried corn tortillas loaded with shredded beef or shredded chicken. Served with lettuce, guacamole, sour cream, tomato, rice, and beans.
Carnitas Plate
Tender pork tips with guacamole salad, tortillas, rice, and beans.
Chile Poblano Pepper Dinner
Two green poblano peppers stuffed with cheese, lightly battered, and deep-fried, covered with traditional red sauce. Served with tortillas, rice, and beans.
Chile Colorado
Choice of chicken, beef chunks, or pork tips with red chile sauce. Served with rice, beans, and tortillas.
Hamburger Dinner
Cheeseburger grilled over an open fire with tomato, onion, and lettuce. Served with French fries.
Milanesa
Choice of 10 oz thin sliced steak or chicken breaded on deep-fried served with rice, beans, and garnished with lettuce, avocado, tomato, sour cream, and tortillas.
Specialties
Combination Dinners
5. One Beef Enchilada, One Taco
Mexican rice and refried beans.
10. One Enchilada, One Beef Burrito & One Chile Poblano Relleno
8. Two Beef Tacos
Mexican rice and refried beans.
12. One Burrito, One Enchilada
6. One Enchilada, One Chile Poblano Relleno
Rice and refried beans.
18. Building Your Own Combo
With your choice of 4 items.
13. One Chile Poblano Relleno, One Taco
1. One Taco, Two Enchiladas
Mexican rice.
16. One Chile Poblano Relleno, One Beef Burrito
7. One Enchilada, One Tamale
Mexican rice and refried beans.
11. One Beef Burrito, One Enchilada & One Chalupa
15. One Taco, One Beef Burrito
14. One Burrito, One Chile Poblano Relleno & One Taco
2. One Enchilada, One Taco & Chile Poblano Relleno
3. Two Tacos, One Enchilada & One Chile With Beef & Cheese
4. Two Beef Enchiladas
Mexican rice and refried beans.
9. One Beef Burrito, One Taco & One Enchilada
17. 1 Beef Burrito, 1 Chicken Quesadilla
A choice of rice or beans.
Sour Cream
Grated Cheese
Guacamole
Cheese Dip
Substitution cheese dip for salsa for an additional charge.
French Fries
Tortillas (3)
Pico De Gallo
Jalapenos
Mexican Rice
Large Salsa To-Go
Refried Beans
Side Orders
Special Lunch
Special Lunch No. 4
One beef burrito, one beef taco, and rice.
Special Lunch No. 3
One bean burrito, one cheese enchilada, and rice.
Special Lunch No. 5
One chicken quesadilla, one beef enchilada, and rice.
Special Lunch No. 1
One chile poblano, one crunchy taco, beans, and a guacamole salad.
Special Lunch No. 2
One burrito, rice, and beans.
Burrito El Jimador
A large flour tortilla filled with seasoned ground beef or shredded chicken, covered with red sauce lettuce tomatoes, sour cream, and shredded cheese. Served rice and beans.
Speedy Gonzalez
One crunchy taco, one enchilada covered in red sauce, and your choice of rice or beans.
Taco Salad
A crispy flour tortilla bowl with ground beef or shredded chicken, lettuce, tomato, and shredded cheese with sour cream, covered in cheese sauce, and guacamole.
Taquitos Mexicanos
Two deep-fried corn tortillas loaded with shredded beef or shredded chicken. Served with lettuce, guacamole, sour cream, tomato, rice, and bean.
Huevos Con Chorizo
Two grilled eggs topped with mexican sausage, served with rice, beans, and flour tortillas.
Chimichanga
A stuffed flour tortilla with your choice of ground beef or shredded chicken, deep-fried to a crispy golden glaze and covered with cheese sauce. Served with lettuce, sour cream, guacamole, pico de gallo, rice, and beans.
Taco Salad Fajita
A crispy flour tortilla with your choice of strips of marinated chicken, beef skirt, or mix. Served with lettuce, tomatoes, sour cream, and guacamole.
Tostaguac
A flat crispy corn tortilla covered with beef, beans, lettuce, cheese, sliced tomatoes, and guacamole. Served with rice and beans.
Tamale (1)
Two tender beef wrapped in a soft corn husk covered with seasoned ground beef and mild sauce. Served with rice and beans.
Quesadilla Jimador
A flour tortilla with melted cheese and your choice of grilled steak or grilled chicken. Served with rice and beans.
Chile Poblano Relleno (1)
Two poblano pepper stuffed with monterrey jack cheese, lightly battered and deep-fried, covered in red sauce. Served with rice and beans and tortillas.
Nachos Mexicanos
Cheese nachos made with your choice of grilled chicken or steak with sauteed onion and bell pepper.
Quesadilla
A flour tortilla with melted cheese and your choice of ground beef or shredded chicken. Served with rice and beans.
Chilaquiles Mexicanos
A corn tortilla stuffed with shredded chicken and covered with special sauce. Served with guacamole salad and rice.
Enchilada (2)
Two ground beef or shredded chicken rolled in a soft corn tortilla, covered with enchilada sauce and shredded cheese. Served with rice and beans.
Pollo Jimador
Lunch portion of one of our popular "pollo" dinner entrees: pollo jimador, pollo mexicano, or pollo chihuahua. Served with lettuce, guacamole, sour cream, pico de gallo, flour tortillas, rice, and beans.
Fajitas
Grilled chicken, steak, or mix with sauteed onion and bell pepper. Serve with lettuce, pico de gallo, sour cream, guacamole, flour tortillas, rice, and beans.
Taco (2)
Two crispy taco stuffed with ground beef or shredded chicken, lettuce, and shredded cheese. Served with rice and beans.