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Lime Recipes

20 recipes with lime for weeknights, meal prep, and quick ingredient searches. Choose by time, cuisine, and what is in your kitchen.

20 recipes

🇲🇽MexicoEasy

Appetizers and Sandwiches

Guacamole

Ripe avocados mashed coarse with lime juice, raw onion, cilantro, and a hit of jalapeño. The key is chunky texture and enough salt — underseasoned guacamole is the most common mistake. Best eaten within minutes of making it.

13 min200 kcal4 serves

🌿Vegetarian🥑Keto⚡Quick

🇲🇽MexicoMedium

Meat Dishes

Fajitas

Strips of marinated meat seared at high heat with charred onions and peppers, served sizzling on a hot plate with warm tortillas. The smoky char on the vegetables and the caramelized edges on the meat make all the difference.

30 min570 kcal4 serves

⚡Quick🌶️Spicy💪High protein

🇻🇳VietnamAdvanced

Soups

Pho Bo (Vietnamese Beef Noodle Soup)

Vietnam's most iconic dish — a crystal-clear, deeply aromatic beef broth simmered for hours with charred onion, ginger, and whole spices, served over rice noodles with paper-thin beef, fresh herbs, lime, and chili. The broth is everything.

210 min400 kcal4 serves

🌾Gluten-free🌶️Spicy💪High protein

🇮🇩IndonesiaMedium

Fish and Seafood Dishes

Pepes Ikan (Fish in Banana Leaf)

An Indonesian classic — white fish fillets wrapped in banana leaves with a fragrant spice paste (bumbu) of shallots, garlic, chili, galangal, turmeric, and lemongrass, then steamed until tender. The banana leaf infuses a subtle herbal aroma that you cannot get any other way.

40 min280 kcal2 serves

🌾Gluten-free🌶️Spicy💪High protein

🇹🇭ThailandMedium

Meat Dishes

Massaman Curry

Thailand’s mildest and most complex curry — slow-braised beef with potato and roasted peanuts in a rich coconut milk sauce spiced with cinnamon, cardamom, and cumin. Voted the world’s best dish by CNN Travel in 2011. Not spicy — deep, sweet, and profoundly satisfying.

50 min380 kcal2 serves

🌾Gluten-free🌶️Spicy💪High protein

🇮🇳IndiaMedium

Vegetable and Mushroom Dishes

Chana Masala

A Punjabi street food staple that became an all-India classic — chickpeas simmered in a thick spiced tomato-onion sauce with cumin, coriander, garam masala, and a squeeze of lime. Vegetarian, cheap, deeply satisfying. Eaten for breakfast with puri, for lunch with rice, and as a street snack.

35 min290 kcal2 serves

🌿Vegetarian🌶️Spicy💪High protein

🇺🇸USAAdvanced

Meat Dishes

Ground Turkey Taco Bowls

Lean ground turkey seasoned with homemade taco spices, served over cilantro-lime rice with black beans, corn, salsa and avocado. Around 40g of protein per bowl — the standard for high-protein meal prep that actually tastes like dinner.

30 min420 kcal4 serves

⚡Quick💪High protein🌾Gluten-free

🇺🇸USAAdvanced

Vegetable and Mushroom Dishes

Roasted Sweet Potato Black Bean Bowls

Cubed sweet potatoes roasted at high heat until the edges caramelize, served over cilantro-lime rice with spiced black beans, avocado, and a quick chili-lime crema. About 14g of fiber and 16g of protein per bowl. Good warm, good cold, holds four days in the fridge — one of the few meal-prep recipes that actually tastes better by day three.

45 min490 kcal4 serves

🌿Vegetarian🌾Gluten-free🌶️Spicy

🇹🇭ThailandMedium

Cereal and Pasta Dishes

Pad Thai

Stir-fried rice noodles with egg, bean sprouts, peanuts, and your choice of protein — shrimp, chicken, or tofu — in a sauce built on tamarind, fish sauce, and palm sugar. The three-part balance of sour, salty, and sweet is what makes Pad Thai distinct from any other noodle dish in the world. It is one of Thailand's most iconic street foods, eaten at vendors across Bangkok and virtually every Thai restaurant globally. The sauce is the whole recipe — get the sauce right and the rest is quick. Two rules matter most: cook in small batches so the wok stays hot enough to caramelize the sauce, and never overcook the noodles.

25 min580 kcal2 serves

🌾Gluten-free⚡Quick🌶️Spicy

🇹🇭ThailandMedium

Cereal and Pasta Dishes

Tofu Pad Thai

Flat rice noodles stir-fried with pressed tofu, bean sprouts, and spring onions in a tamarind-fish sauce-palm sugar sauce, finished with crushed peanuts and lime. This is a vegetarian adaptation of the classic Thai street dish — not a compromise version, but a version that works because the sauce, technique, and noodle handling are treated correctly. The tamarind is non-negotiable. The wok needs to be genuinely hot. The tofu needs to be dry before it hits the pan. Get those three things right and the rest follows.

35 min480 kcal2 serves

🌿Vegetarian🌶️Spicy

🇹🇭ThailandAdvanced

Vegetable and Mushroom Dishes

Vegan Coconut Curry

Crispy-edged tofu and vegetables simmered in a fragrant coconut-and-curry-paste sauce, finished with lime juice and fresh herbs. The kind of dish that makes your kitchen smell extraordinary and tastes like it took much longer than it did. The curry paste does most of the flavor work — frying it in oil first releases the aromatics fully before the coconut milk goes in, which is the step that transforms a flat-tasting sauce into something layered and complex. Serve over jasmine rice with extra lime and a scatter of Thai basil.

35 min440 kcal4 serves

🌿Vegetarian🌱Vegan🌾Gluten-free

🇹🇭ThailandMedium

Meat Dishes

Thai Green Curry (Gaeng Keow Wan)

Gaeng keow wan (แกงเขียวหวาน) — literally 'sweet green curry' — is the most popular curry in Thailand, served everywhere from street stalls to fine restaurants. The green color comes from fresh green chillies in the paste; the 'sweet' in the name refers not to sugar but to the soft pastel shade of green. A quick-fried green curry paste forms the base, bloomed in the thick cream from coconut milk before the liquid is added. The balance is non-negotiable: spicy from the paste, rich from the coconut, salty from fish sauce, and a back note of sweetness from palm sugar. Thai basil and kaffir lime leaves are the aromatics that make it unmistakably Thai. Serve with jasmine rice and nothing else.

35 min420 kcal4 serves

🌾Gluten-free🌶️Spicy💪High protein

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coconut milk fish sauce avocado onion rice noodles peanuts tomato beef ginger black beans bean sprouts tofu