This Chipotle Lime Sauce recipe uses less than 10 ingredients and is a great way to add flavor and sauciness to your next meal.
Creamy Chipotle Lime Sauce
Get the most bang for your buck with this simple sauce that uses less than 10 ingredients! It’s one of our favorite ways to quickly add flavor to burrito bowls, tacos, and rice bowls and we love it on our Blackstone Chicken Tacos. It’s a clean ingredient sauce that we feel good about serving to our families.
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Substitutions
- soy sauce – If you need this recipe to be gluten-free, simply sub the soy sauce with tamari. And this small adjustment won’t change the flavor of the sauce!
What Is Chipotle Sauce
There are so many variations of this popular condiment out there. What most chipotle sauce recipes have in common is a slightly smokey flavor, creamy texture, and mid-range spicy flavor. We added some fresh lime juice to add a fresh, tart flavor, which complements the other rich flavored ingredients.
How To Make Chipotle Lime Sauce
Start by gathering all of your ingredients and add them all to a small food processor and blend until smooth. You could blend these ingredients with a immersion blender if that’s easier.
How To Enjoy Chipotle Lime Sauce
Pour this creamy chipotle sauce into a small bowl and let everyone add as much or as little as they want to their meal. This easy 5-minute chipotle lime sauce would taste great on a whole slew of healthy recipes like fish tacos, shrimp tacos, rice bowls, or burritos! You could even use it as a dipping sauce for chicken tenders!
Storage
Store leftover sauce in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to 5 days.
Recipe FAQs and Tips
- Is chipotle sauce spicy? It can be, but our recipe is quite mild in terms of heat level. Add more chipotle peppers and sauce to increase the spice level.
- What is in chipotle sauce? There are a lot of recipes out there, but we used just a few simple ingredients that include mayonnaise, chipotle in adobo sauce, lime juice and zest, garlic cloves, soy sauce, and some salt.
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Chipotle Lime Sauce
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 0 minutes
- Total Time: 10 minutes
- Yield: 8 servings 1x
- Category: Sauce
- Method: Counter Top
- Cuisine: American
Description
A flavorful and delicious homemade chipotle lime sauce recipe that is perfect for your next taco or rice bowl.
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup mayonnaise
- 1 chipotle in adobo sauce, more as desired
- 1 tablespoon lime juice
- 1 teaspoon garlic, minced
- 1 teaspoon soy sauce (sub tamari for gluten-free)
- 1 teaspoon lime zest
- pinch of kosher salt
Instructions
- Combine ingredients in a small food processor. Blend until smooth.
- Taste and add additional chipotles for more spice or more salt, as desired.
- Serve with these Grilled Steak Tacos or these Blackstone Chicken Tacos!
Notes
- Gluten-Free: sub in Tamari for the soy sauce to make this gluten-free.
- Storage: refrigerate for up to 5 days.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 2 oz
- Calories: 97
- Sugar: 0.2 g
- Sodium: 183 mg
- Fat: 10.3 g
- Carbohydrates: 0.5 g
- Fiber: 0 g
- Protein: 0.2 g
- Cholesterol: 5.8 mg
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