Healthy Cilantro Lime Sauce
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Healthy Cilantro Lime Sauce goes perfectly on anything! Made with a few simple ingredients like greek yogurt + spices, it’s a gluten free, keto dressing.
This Healthy Cilantro Lime Sauce is perfect for dipping veggies, wings, or used as a creamy salad dressing! Slightly tangy, perfectly smooth – this sauce goes well on basically anything.
It goes great on pecan crusted chicken, chili lime shrimp, or any tacos made with our healthy taco seasoning, or really anything you might be making!
Made with only yogurt, lime juice/zest, cilantro, olive oil, salt + pepper – it has minimal ingredients and only takes minutes to make!
This healthy cilantro lime sauce was born after I made some meatballs. I was taking the photos and just thinking not only did they look a little blah, but they were SPICY and needed something to cool them down.
Tyler recommended making a yogurt sauce.. and I had an abundance of cilantro so I decided to combine the two.
We dipped the spicy meatballs in it, but then quickly moved on to dipping veggies in it, using it on our tacos + even as a salad dressing! It totally transformed my meals!
What can you put this Healthy Cilantro Lime Sauce on?
You can put this sauce on pretty much anything, but here are some of my favorite ways to use it:
- Healthy Tacos
- Whole30 Chicken Fajitas
- As a dip with chopped carrots and celery.
- As a dressing – I use it on taco salads all the time.
- Anything spicy! The combo of cilantro, lime + yogurt is great for cooling down spicy food.
- Being that it’s made from great yogurt, it has a good amount of protein so it’s perfect for snacking on our using as a condiment for basically any recipe you could think of!
I love simple sauces like this because it’s just proof that you don’t need super fatty/high calorie foods for dipping. Lighter greek yogurt + fresh herbs are all you need for a yummy, healthy sauce!
Ingredients for Cilantro Lime Sauce:
To make this cilantro lime sauce you’ll need:
- greek yogurt
- lime juice & lime zest
- olive oil, salt, pepper
You’ll also need a food processor or blender.
You can find substitutions for all of these ingredients below in the green shaded substitutions box.
Substitutions for this Healthy Cilantro Lime Recipe:
Herbs: If you don’t like cilantro, you can sub in basil or parsley
Dairy Free: To make dairy free, you can use a dairy free yogurt
Storing Cilantro Lime Sauce:
Storing: This sauce will last for up to a week in the refrigerator.
Freezing: We don’t recommend freezing this sauce
Things you can pair with this Healthy Cilantro Lime Sauce:
Healthy Cilantro Lime Sauce
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup nonfat greek yogurt
- 6 tablespoons fresh cilantro leaves chopped
- 1 teaspoon lime zest (zest of one lime)
- 1 tablespoon lime juice
- 1/2 tablespoon olive oil
- 1/2 teaspoon black pepper
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
Instructions
- In a food processor or blender, puree all ingredients until smooth
Notes
- Herbs: If you don’t like cilantro, you can sub in basil or parsley
- Dairy Free: To make dairy free, you can use a dairy free yogurt
Ok I wonder if I can replace the oil with avocado and get a creamy texture …
I haven’t tried that, it might work! It would probably be thicker!
This sauce is so delicious!! I make a batch every week to keep many for a dip or as sandwich spread. Great on avacado that’s too!
Love this sauce. I have it with chicken tortillas. So easy and tasty
I made this to go with the chili chicken meatballs and can’t wait to try it with other things. Lime and cilantro are such a great combo and the Greek yogurt makes it good and tangy.
What kind of greek yogurt did you use? Plain?
Plain, non fat greek yogurt.
I only have vanilla Greek yogurt. Will that work?
Absolutely not. It will be sweet and taste really gross. Please don’t do this!
This dressing comes together quickly and easily and is delicious. I put it on all my salads for a week. It is so nice to have a dressing that’s not adding lots of calories to my daily count.
Thanks, Christy! So glad you liked it!
Any suggestions on a decent dairy free yogurt to make this paleo/whole30? Doing January January whole30 and it looks delicious. I made it with Kite almond milk Greek yogurt and I hate to say but it was not good! I’m sure with regular Greek yogurt it’s delicious!
Hi Karin – I don’t have any suggestions for you. Yogurt isn’t really in the spirit of Whole30, so it’s best to just skip it for the 30 days. My friend Kelly has a great post on Whole30 sauces that aren’t mayo – https://eatthegains.com/6-whole30-sauces-that-arent-mayo/ Hope this helps!
I used unsweetened coconut yogurt and it turned out great. A little runny (but that’s okay for a dressing) and good flavor!
So happy you liked it, Kristin!
Found this recipe on Pinterest and it was quick to put together and flavorful. I drizzled the sauce on top of quesadillas as it was a fresh, tasty and tangy addition. I will be making this again!
So glad you liked it, Priscilla! Thanks so much!
Made this with your chicken meatballs and It was delicious!! Brought them as an appetizer to a party and It was a hit! So fast and easy to make with so much flavor!
Yay!! So glad you liked them Sam! It’s great for veggies too as a dip!
FINALLY made this tonight to go with our taco dinner…..delicious!! I will be making this a lot….even with my not super fresh cilantro it was still great….love it!!
So glad you liked it Christine!! Isn’t it delicious on tacos? It’s great on nachos too!
Made this on taco night and the fam loved it! Simple and healthy…bravo!
So glad you liked it, Sam!