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Home » Recipes » Side Dishes » Honey Lime Cilantro Sauce

Honey Lime Cilantro Sauce

June 17, 2015 //  by The Kitchen Snob 9 Comments

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Little bowl of honey lime cilantro sauce and some being poured on top of a juicy pork chop with a spoon

Collage of various photos showing the ingredients for honey lime cilantro sauce before it's mixed and after it's mixedI spent more time trying to adequately name this sauce than actually making it.

Making sauce = 5 minutes
Naming sauce = an embarrassing amount of time that discloses my indecisiveness

wooden and metal whisk with bits of honey lime cilantro sauce stuck to the end and drips of it all over parchment paperThis Honey Lime Cilantro Sauce could be called Fix Your Food Sauce because it’s bound to help anything you pour it over (chicken, steak, pork, fish). It could also be called Honey Lime Vinaigrette because it’s got a smidge of vinegar and this cilantro sauce and a salad could have a torrid love affair.

Top view of a white gravy dish filled with honey lime cilantro sauce with a dirty whisk sitting next to it and broken pieces of cilantro around itBut it’s just plain good (and other annoying food blogger adjectives like delicious, yummy, mmmmm, nom nom nom, aMAZing, to die for – you’re tired of these.)

But ohhh poured over some thick juicy pork chops and, as you’re eating it, it soaks into the rice mmm nom nom nom…sorry. Do you really need me to drill it into your head on how good this is? Maybe pictures will do the job.

A spoon ladling honey lime cilantro sauce on the top of a nicely seared pork chop with a side of white rice I wanted to face plant myself right into the plate. If you want to face plant yourself into your own pork chop and rice that’s been smothered in this sauce, the recipes are here and here.

This is sauce is so flavorful, you could skip the fancy rice I mentioned. Just pour over plain rice!

The cilantro sauce is tangy, sweet, and slightly spicy.

Small white and green ramekin filled with honey lime cilantro sauce with silver teaspoon dipped inside with sprigs of cilantro next to itI tried it two ways: Mixed together in a food processor (pic above) and whisked together in a bowl (see how it looks below in the gravy boat below). Both were equally as good. If you only whisk it, the ingredients do settle a bit at the bottom, but nothing that a quick stir can’t fix.

Side view of white gravy boat filled with honey lime cilantro sauce and silver whisk with wood handle next to it

This Honey Lime Cilantro Sauce will be making an encore in my kitchen soon. It only takes 5 minutes and it doesn’t need to marinate or cook on the stove. Yay! More time to face plant yourself into a plate of something good.

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Honey Lime Cilantro Sauce


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Ingredients

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  • 1/2 cup extra virgin olive oil
  • 4 tablespoons finely chopped fresh cilantro
  • 2–3 large, fresh cloves garlic, minced
  • 1/4 teaspoon seasoned rice wine vinegar
  • 1/2 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes
  • 2 1/2 teaspoons honey
  • 6 tablespoons fresh squeezed lime juice (approximately 3–4 limes)
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt

Instructions

  1. In a small bowl, mix all ingredients together with a whisk or process all ingredients together in a food processor.

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  2. Megan

    April 25, 2017 at 12:33 PM

    Big fan of this dressing. I made it to go on my spaghetti squash with meatballs. taste like a dream.

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    • The Kitchen Snob

      April 25, 2017 at 2:03 PM

      Hi, Megan. I’m so glad to hear you liked it! Would have never thought to put it on spaghetti squash. Yum!

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      • Michael Heuer

        January 6, 2020 at 4:01 PM

        Adding some cayenne for a kick at the end is great! 🙂

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  3. Carey

    December 19, 2016 at 8:57 PM

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  4. HECtor

    December 10, 2016 at 10:51 PM

    Could I use this on a mango Bavarian cream dessert?? I’m trying to do something out of the ordinary

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    • The Kitchen Snob

      December 13, 2016 at 1:19 PM

      Hi, Hector. While I don’t want to stop anyone from being adventurous and trying something out of the ordinary, no, I don’t think this would go well on any dessert. Yes, there is a tiny bit of sweetness to this sauce, but it’s more of a savory thing. With the garlic, vinegar, cilantro, red peppers…it doesn’t sound like it would be good on top of dessert to me. 🙂 But if you do end up trying it, I’d love to hear the results!

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  5. Shelley

    September 26, 2016 at 12:04 PM

    Can u use a honey lime vinaigrette as a shrimp marinade?

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    • The Kitchen Snob

      September 26, 2016 at 12:54 PM

      I don’t see why not. It sounds delicious!

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