Chipotle Lime Sour Cream Sauce
Taco Tuesday called! And it's needing some Chipotle Lime Sour Cream sauce. Sour cream, canned chipotle en adobo peppers, and fresh lime juice are all you need for this smoky, creamy, and refreshingly acidic sauce.
Servings: 1.5 cups
Calories: 388kcal
Equipment
Ingredients
- 1 ¼ cups sour cream
- 1 chipotle en adobo pepper plus 2 teaspoons chipotle en adobo sauce
- 2 teaspoons lime juice
- Salt (to taste)
Instructions
- Add all ingredients to a food processor or blender, or add to a glass measuring pitcher if you plan on using a stick blender like I did here.1 ¼ cups sour cream, 1 chipotle en adobo pepper, 2 teaspoons lime juice
- Blend for 15 seconds or so, just long enough to pulverize the chipotle en adobo pepper into the sour cream.
- Note: The sauce will be unpleasantly, imperfectly thin (IMO) at this stage. Like we’re talking milk thin. Please don’t panic. I find that a 2-3 hour refrigeration is necessary to achieve what I call gloopy thin - you know it’s thin enough to be drizzleable but thick enough to pleasantly coat a spoon. THIS is the intended viscosity for this sauce.
- Taste, and add salt if desired.Salt
- Refrigerate for 2-3 hours to get that perfect gloopy thin consistency.
- Serve with Tostitos Cantina Thin & Crispy chips, taco salad, or burrito bowls.
Notes
Store the Chipotle Lime Sour Cream sauce in a lidded container. For best results, use within 5 days.
On a Minnesota spicy scale of 1 being ketchup and 10 being I smelled a habanero and started crying, I’ll give this sauce a 4. The sour cream helps rein in the heat from the canned chipotle en adobo peppers quite nicely, but it still has a nice bite to it. When I’m feeling zesty I add two chipotle en adobo peppers.
*Please note that nutrition facts are calculated using an online calculator and are estimates.
Nutrition
Calories: 388kcal | Carbohydrates: 11g | Protein: 5g | Fat: 37g | Saturated Fat: 19g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 2g | Monounsaturated Fat: 9g | Cholesterol: 113mg | Sodium: 60mg | Potassium: 247mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 7g | Vitamin A: 1198IU | Vitamin C: 4mg | Calcium: 195mg | Iron: 0.4mg