Easy Jalapeño Lime Ranch Recipe

If you’re like me and love topping your tacos, salads, and dinners with homemade sauce, you’ve come to the right place! In this recipe, I’ll show you how to make a delicious, easy jalapeño lime ranch sauce that’s perfect for topping your tacos.

This jalapeño lime ranch recipe is extremely quick and easy to make. It will certainly change the way you host taco night! This is a great dipping or topping sauce as it plays a role similar to sour cream.

Without further ado, let’s dive into how to quickly make this delicious jalapeño lime ranch!

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What Makes The Best Jalapeño Lime Ranch?

Perfecting this recipe is easy. After-all, we’re just adding ingredients to a bowl and stirring it up! We’ve mastered this recipe when the sauce is:

• Creamy rather than wet
• Spicy rather than sweet
• Cold rather than hot

With that being said, all three of those criteria will come naturally if you follow the recipe, making it hard to mess-up! This is a delicious sauce to top your tacos or dishes with. Let’s get into how to make this easy jalapeño lime ranch!

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• The Story Of This Recipe
• Ingredients
• Instructions
• Storing Your Leftovers
• Tide & Thyme Recipe Card
• Frequently Asked Questions

The Story Of This Jalapeño Lime Ranch

As mentioned, I LOVE SAUCE! Not only do I love sauce, but I enjoy making my own sauce. I love a spicy, tangy sauce to top my hot dishes with, such as cheesy fold over street tacos.

Some of my favorite flavors in all of cooking include lime and jalapeños, which are two of the main ingredients in this recipe. Through experimentation and research, I discovered how to mix the two with greek yogurt to create a sour cream-like dipping sauce.

This recipe won’t disappoint. For me, it’s become a staple sauce to serve on the table anytime we’re making tacos.

Ingredients Needed For Easy Jalapeño Lime Ranch

I promised it would be easy. Let’s take a look at the few ingredients needed to make this recipe.

• 3/4 cup plain Greek yogurt
• 1/4 cup fresh cilantro finely chopped
• 1 teaspoon garlic powder
• 1 teaspoon onion powder
• 1/4 cup diced pickled jalapeños and brine
• juice from 1 lime
• 1 teaspoon kosher salt

How To Make Easy Jalapeño Lime Ranch

1. Add all ingredients into a glass jar and shake or stir until combined creamy.
2. Enjoy!

How To Store Your Leftovers

I ALWAYS make enough of this sauce for leftovers the next day. When you do have leftover sauce, simple store it in a seal refrigerator container and enjoy the next day!

It’s as simple as that!

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Easy Jalapeño Lime Ranch

This easy homemade 5 ingredient jalapeño lime ranch is easy to make, simple, and comes together in minutes. Whether you’re making it for the Thanksgiving table or just for one, it is a guaranteed crowd pleaser.

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Total Time 5 minutes mins

Course Side Dish

Cuisine American, Mexican

Servings 6 Servings

Equipment

• Glass Jar
• Cutting Board
• Knife
• Measuring Cups teaspoon, tablespoon, 1/4 cup, 3/4 cup, 1 cup

Ingredients

  

• 3/4 cup plain Greek yogurt
• 1/4 cup fresh cilantro finely chopped
• 1 teaspoon garlic powder
• 1 teaspoon onion powder
• 1/4 cup diced pickled jalapeños and brine
• juice from 1 lime
• 1 teaspoon kosher salt

Instructions

 

• Add all ingredients into a glass jar and shake or stir until combined creamy.
• Enjoy!

Notes

This easy Jalapeño Lime Ranch sauce is perfect for your homemade tacos, bowls, nachos, and vegetable tray. We love serving it when we host family and friends, and it’s always a hit! We hope you enjoy it as much as we do. If you do, send us some pictures of how you served it!

Keyword Jalapeño, Jalapeño Lime Ranch, Lime, Ranch, Ranch Variation

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