Name: Lime Crema Recipe
Prep time: 10 min
Total time: 10 min
Cuisine: Mexican
Ingredients: 1 cup sour cream; 2 tablespoons mayonnaise; zest of 1 lime; juice of 1 lime; 1 teaspoon finely minced garlic or 1/4 tsp granulated garlic powder; 1/4 teaspoon salt; 1 tablespoon finely chopped fresh cilantro

An easy cream sauce with lime, sour cream, and cilantro, it may be exactly what your favorite Mexican dish is missing. Perfect on nachos, tacos, enchiladas, burritos and more! It's so easy to whip up and will become a fast favorite.

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This is a very versatile sauce. It goes well with just about anything you can imagine. Beef, pork, chicken, and fish. Veggies as a dip. The options are really limitless! Drizzle this sauce on your low-carb taco salad bowls, with tamales, tostadas, and so much more!

For the Cilantro lime crema recipe you will need these ingredients:

Sour Cream - You can also use Mexican sour cream, Mexican crema, greek yogurt

Mayonnaise - Replace regular mayo with Keto mayonnaise for keto diets

Lime - Zest lime first then squeeze your lime for about 1-2 tablespoons of juice.

Garlic - Finely minced, crushed, or powder

Salt - regular salt or sea salt

Cilantro - cilantro lovers can add more instead of 1 tablespoon. For those who don't like cilantro, you can leave it out or substitute it with 1 teaspoon of chopped mint or parsley.

Zest the lime, then squeeze the juice into a small bowl.

In a bowl whisk the sour cream, mayonnaise, garlic or garlic powder, lime zest, lime juice, and salt. Stir in finely chopped cilantro.

Use immediately or store in a covered bowl in the fridge until ready to serve

🌶Tip: Lime crema will naturally thicken in the fridge, pull out the whisk and add 1/4 tsp of water or lime juice to thin out the sauce if this happens.