From-scratch Cilantro Lime Sauce

This Cilantro Lime Sauce is the well-balanced addition to all your tacos and burrito bowls. It’s straightforward to cook and has only 5 ingredients. It’s a creamy, citrus, and sweet sauce.

A house favorite cilantro sauce for tacos

This sauce is great for tacos because it’s a creamy, cilantro based sauce with flavors of lime and honey.

It compliments any kind of taco or burrito bowl. It goes great with chicken, seafood, and beef.

Whether you’re adding it to a Burrito bowl Or Beef tacos, this sauce gives that well-balanced cool, creamy touch. It’s great to use in place of queso.

Why you will come back to lime cilantro sauce

Straightforward to cook. This sauce only requires measuring and mixing. There’s no cooking involved.

Plain ingredients. With only 5 simple ingredients, they’re straightforward to find and you might even have them on hand.

Perfectly balanced. This sauce gives the well-balanced balance of sweet, creamy, and citrus. It’s a great compliment to every kind of taco.

Kitchen tools to make cilantro lime sauce for tacos

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Ingredients for cilantro taco sauce

• Sour cream – we recommend full fat sour cream for this. You could also use light, but we don’t recommend using fat free. It has a completely different taste and texture.
• Fresh cilantro – Be sure to chop it as finely as possible to make sure it gets spread evenly throughout the sauce.
• Limes – this will help thin it out and add the citrus flavor.
• Honey – this helps offset some of the citrus and tang.
• Kosher salt – don’t reach for the table salt here.

Substitutions and alterations for cilantro lime crema recipe

The sour cream in this can be replaced with plain Greek yogurt. It’ll give a similar taste and texture.

If you aren’t a big fan of cilantro, you can omit it entirely. The sauce will still be great.

How to cook lime cilantro sauce for tacos

1. Add all of the ingredients to a mixing bowl.
2. Mix it together until it’s all smooth and combined.

Tips and tricks for cilantro lime taco sauce

Make sure that the cilantro is finely chopped. That will help you avoid getting a large chunk of cilantro in a bite.

Mixing the sour cream before measuring it out is important. You don’t want a watery sauce.

How to keep cilantro sour cream sauce

To store cilantro sour cream sauce, place it in an airtight container in the refrigerator. It will stay fresh for up to 5 days.

The lime juice may separate slightly while in the refrigerator. Give it a good stir before using.

FAQs for cilantro crema

What to serve with cilantro lime cream sauce

One of a house favorite things to serve with this cilantro lime cream sauce is tacos.

• Sheet Pan Chicken Fajitas
• Beef Fajitas
• Chili Lime Shrimp Tacos
• Ground Beef Tacos

It also goes great on top of Burrito bowls And with Carne asada. We even love drizzling it on top of Mexican Rice Casserole And Southwest Chicken and Rice Skillet. It would even be great drizzled over some from-scratch Baleadas.

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Prep 5 minutesTotal 5 minutesMakes 9 tablespoons

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup sour cream
• 1 handful fresh cilantro chopped
• 1 lime whole lime, juiced
• 1 teaspoon honey
• 1/2 teaspoon salt

Method

1. Combine all ingredients in a bowl.
2. Mix to combine.

Notes

• We recommend using a small whisk or fork to combine the ingredients, but you can also pop it all in a food processor or small blender .