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Jalapeño lime sauce in a bowl, decorated with lime slices and fresh coriander.
Smooth and spicy jalapeño cream dip with fresh lime

Creamy jalapeño and lime dip

Author: Flavelo
Recipes Sauces and Gravies
In this sauce, two pillars of Mexican cuisine meet: fire and cooling. The piquant strength of jalapeño pepper is tamed by the richness of sour cream and acidity of lime, creating a creamy yet exciting dip. The secret lies in roasting the pepper: heat transforms raw, grassy flavour into a deeper, sweeter aroma, giving perfect base to the sauce.
🕒 Prep Time 10 mins
🍳 Cook Time 5 mins
⌛ Total Time 15 mins
🍽️ Servings 4 servings
🔥 Calories 120 kcal
🌍 Cuisine Mexican

Ingredients

Equipment Needed

  • Small frying pan
  • Stick blender or chopper
  • Knife and chopping board
  • Rubber gloves (for cutting peppers)

Allergen Information

⚠️ Milk

Instructions

1 ✓

Prep: wash peppers, remove stalks and slice into rings. Peel garlic.

Tip: Most heat is in seeds and white inner veins (placenta). Scrape out for milder sauce.
2 ✓

Roasting: heat oil in pan, throw in pepper rings. Fry 2-3 minutes until skin blackens in places and smells fragrant.

Tip: Roasting caramelises sugars in pepper and dulls raw heat, giving more complex taste.
3 ✓

Assembly: put sour cream in tall vessel. Add roasted pepper (with oil), garlic, torn coriander, salt, pepper and lime juice.

Tip: Fat (oil and cream) helps dissolve and carry pepper flavour compounds (capsaicin solubility).
4 ✓

Blending: use stick blender to process until obtaining smooth, pale green cream.

Tip: If too thick, loosen with tiny splash of water or more lime juice.
5 ✓

Fine tuning: taste! Add salt if needed. Serve as dip or with meats.

Tip: Coriander stalks are full of flavour too, blend them in, not just leaves!

Recipe FAQ

It became too hot, what should I do?
Add more sour cream or a little honey. Casein in dairy helps neutralise heat.
Sauce split, why?
Lime acidity can curdle sour cream if not fatty enough. Use 20% fat sour cream (or crème fraîche), and mix quickly!

Ingredients

  • 3 whole Fresh jalapeño peppers
  • 2 tbsp Fresh lime juice
  • 150 ml Soured cream (or Crème Fraîche)
  • 1 clove Garlic
  • 1 bunch Fresh coriander
  • 1 tbsp Olive oil
  • 0.5 tsp Salt
  • 0.25 tsp Freshly ground black pepper