5-Minute Thai Chili Lime Sauce

Chili Lime Sauce is spicy, sweet, and totally easy to make. It’s delicious drizzled over chicken, fish, and other meats, or served as a dip for your favorite Asian-inspired finger foods.

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Thai Chili Dipping Sauce

Thai Chili Lime Sauce is sweet and sour with a little bit of heat. While Americanized versions tend to be sweeter, this recipe has more traditional Asian flavors. The authentic flavors more closely match the flavors from sauces you’d typically find in Thailand, specifically served with fried seafood.

In addition to fried fish, crab cakes, and other seafood dishes, this sauce pairs nicely as an appetizer dip or condiment with lettuce wraps, egg rolls, and fried chicken. It’s a great steak, pork, or poultry marinade or glaze, and it even tastes great drizzled over a bed of rice or noodles or added to a soup.

The sauce takes less than 5 minutes to make and it requires zero cooking. Here’s how to make it –

Chili Lime Sauce Recipe

SAUCE INGREDIENTS –

• 1/4 cup lime juice
• 2 tablespoons fish sauce
• 1 garlic clove, minced
• 1 tablespoon chopped fresh cilantro
• 2 tablespoons green onions, sliced
• 1/2 jalapeño, diced or sliced (or more to taste)
• 3 packed tablespoons light brown sugar

DIRECTIONS –

1. In a small mixing bowl, whisk together all ingredients.
2. Serve with egg rolls, lettuce wraps, fried chicken, pork, steak, sticky rice, carrot sticks, etc.

MAKE AHEAD. Prepare this chili lime sauce in advance by mixing together all the ingredients, except the cilantro, green onions, and jalapeno, and store it in the fridge. Add the fresh veggies just before you serve it and mix until combined.

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Chili Lime Sauce

Chili Lime Sauce is spicy, sweet, and totally easy to make. It’s delicious drizzled over chicken, fish, and other meats, or served as a dip for your favorite Asian-inspired finger foods.

Prep Time:5 minutes mins

Total Time:5 minutes mins

Ingredients

• 1/4 cup lime juice
• 2 tablespoons fish sauce
• 1 garlic clove, minced
• 1 tablespoon chopped cilantro
• 2 tablespoons green onions, sliced
• 1/2 jalapeño, diced or sliced (or more to taste)
• 3 tablespoons light brown sugar, packed

Instructions

• In a small mixing bowl, whisk together all ingredients.
  
• Serve with egg rolls, lettuce wraps, fried chicken, pork, steak, etc.
  

Nutrition

Serving: 2 tablespoons · Calories: 175 kcal · Carbohydrates: 44 g · Protein: 3 g · Fat: 0.1 g · Saturated Fat: 0.01 g · Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.04 g · Sodium: 2840 mg · Potassium: 287 mg · Fiber: 1 g · Sugar: 38 g · Vitamin A: 257 IU · Vitamin C: 30 mg · Calcium: 69 mg · Iron: 1 mg

Other Notes

Course: Appetizer

Cuisine: asian, Thai

Keyword: dip, sauce, vegetables