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Lime

Used in 25 recipes on RecipeWiki.

Lime, on this page, covers the juice, wedges, wheels and whole fruit used across RecipeWiki, from Caribbean stews to many of the collection's cocktails. Its sourness is sharper and more floral than lemon, with a faintly bitter, perfumed peel. Freshly squeezed juice is essential in a Daiquiri, where it is balanced against sugar and rum, and its acid firms and turns opaque the raw fish in Ceviche Clasico. Bottled juice tastes flat by comparison. Roll a lime firmly on the worktop before cutting to get more juice, and squeeze it within a few hours of serving, since the flavour dulls quickly.

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Brown Stew Fish — shot from directly overhead: fried whole fish simmered briefly in a dark sweet-savoury gravy built on browning
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Brown Stew Fish

Fried whole fish simmered briefly in a dark sweet-savoury gravy built on browning, onion and thyme, and served with the sauce spooned over.

50 minServes 4
CaribbeanDinnerFish
Caipirinha — shot from directly overhead: whole lime muddled with sugar and cachaça in the glass it is drunk from
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Caipirinha

Whole lime muddled with sugar and cachaça in the glass it is drunk from, with the peel oils very much part of the drink.

5 minServes 1
15 minutesCitrusCocktails
Caribbean Rum Punch — shot from directly overhead: a jug punch on the old sour-sweet-strong-weak ratio
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Caribbean Rum Punch

A jug punch on the old sour-sweet-strong-weak ratio, spiced with nutmeg and Angostura and made to sit on a table rather than a bar.

1 hr 10 minServes 8
15 minutesCaribbeanCitrus
Ceviche Clasico — shot from directly overhead: firm white fish
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Ceviche Clasico

Firm white fish, lime, chilli and onion, and a fifteen-minute window where it is exactly right. Buy the fish the day you make it.

40 minServes 4
FishLunchNo-cook
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Chilli con Carne shot from directly overhead, a true flat lay
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Chilli con Carne

Beef mince simmered for two hours in a paste of toasted, soaked dried chillies, with beans added late and finished with dark chocolate and lime.

3 hr 15 minServes 6
AmericanBeefDinner
Cochinita Pibil — shot from directly overhead: pork buried in achiote and sour orange
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Cochinita Pibil

Pork buried in achiote and sour orange, slow-roasted in banana leaf until it falls apart. A Yucatecan dish that asks for one shopping trip and then leaves you alone.

12 hr 25 minServes 6
MexicanDinnerPork
by recipewiki-bot
Conch Fritters — shot from directly overhead: chopped conch in a loose batter with sweet pepper and scotch bonnet
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Conch Fritters

Chopped conch in a loose batter with sweet pepper and scotch bonnet, dropped into hot oil and eaten standing up with a squeeze of lime.

40 minServes 6
CaribbeanPescatarian
Daiquiri — shot from directly overhead: three ingredients and nowhere to hide: white rum
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Daiquiri

Three ingredients and nowhere to hide: white rum, lime and sugar, shaken hard and drunk cold and straight up.

5 minServes 1
15 minutesCaribbeanCitrus
Dark and Stormy — shot from directly overhead: ginger beer and lime with dark rum floated on top
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Dark and Stormy

Ginger beer and lime with dark rum floated on top, so the first sip is rum and the last is ginger.

4 minServes 1
15 minutesCaribbeanCitrus
Frozen Melon Colada — shot from directly overhead, the table surface filling the frame
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Frozen Melon Colada

White rum, melon liqueur, pineapple and coconut blended into a thick pale-green frozen cocktail with a clean lime finish.

7 minServes 1
15 minutesCaribbeanCitrus
Frozen Strawberry Daiquiri — shot from directly overhead, the table surface filling the frame
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Frozen Strawberry Daiquiri

White rum, lime and frozen strawberries blended to a thick slush that holds a straw upright.

6 minServes 2
15 minutesCaribbeanCitrus
Grilled Pineapple with Rum Syrup — shot from directly overhead: pineapple wedges charred over high heat and spooned with a dark rum
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Grilled Pineapple with Rum Syrup

Pineapple wedges charred over high heat and spooned with a dark rum, lime and brown sugar syrup reduced until it just coats.

30 minServes 6
30 minutesCaribbeanCitrus
Jerk Chicken — shot from directly overhead: chicken marinated overnight in scotch bonnet
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Jerk Chicken

Chicken marinated overnight in scotch bonnet, allspice and thyme, then cooked slowly over smoke until the skin is lacquered almost black.

13 hr 40 minServes 4
CaribbeanChickenDinner
Mai Tai — shot from directly overhead, the table surface filling the frame
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Mai Tai

Aged rum, lime, orange curaçao and almond orgeat, shaken over crushed ice — a rum drink with no fruit juice in it beyond the lime.

5 minServes 1
15 minutesAmericanCitrus
Margarita — shot from directly overhead, the table surface filling the frame
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Margarita

Tequila, lime and orange liqueur shaken hard and served in a glass salted on one side only, so you can choose.

6 minServes 1
15 minutesCitrusCocktails
Michelada — shot from directly overhead: cold lager with lime
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Michelada

Cold lager with lime, hot sauce and a salted rim — savoury, sour and far more refreshing in heat than it sounds.

5 minServes 1
15 minutesCitrusDrinks
Mojito — shot from directly overhead: mint pressed rather than pounded
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Mojito

Mint pressed rather than pounded, with white rum, lime and soda over crushed ice, so it tastes of the leaf and not of the stalk.

5 minServes 1
15 minutesCaribbeanCitrus
Paloma — shot from directly overhead, the table surface filling the frame
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Paloma

Tequila lengthened with grapefruit soda and lime over ice — the drink Mexico actually orders, rather than the one it exports.

5 minServes 1
15 minutesCitrusCocktails
Piña Colada — shot from directly overhead, the table surface filling the frame
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Piña Colada

Rum, pineapple and coconut cream blended with ice until thick enough to hold a straw upright.

5 minServes 2
15 minutesCaribbeanCocktails
Planter's Punch — shot from directly overhead, the table surface filling the frame
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Planter's Punch

One of sour, two of sweet, three of strong, four of weak — the old rhyme, built on dark Jamaican rum and drunk long over ice.

5 minServes 1
15 minutesCaribbeanCitrus
Rum Swizzle — shot from directly overhead, the table surface filling the frame
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Rum Swizzle

Two rums, two juices and bitters churned with crushed ice until the glass frosts and the drink turns cloudy and cold.

7 minServes 1
15 minutesCaribbeanCitrus
Salsa Verde — shot from directly overhead: tomatillos and green chilli blitzed with coriander and lime — sharp
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Salsa Verde

Tomatillos and green chilli blitzed with coriander and lime — sharp, loose, and made in the time it takes to boil a kettle.

10 minServes 6
15 minutesMexicanNo-cook
Singapore Sling — shot from directly overhead, the table surface filling the frame
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Singapore Sling

Gin, cherry brandy and pineapple built long over ice — the hotel-bar drink that survived a century of people getting it wrong.

8 minServes 1
15 minutesCitrusCocktails
Tacos al Pastor — shot from directly overhead: chilli-and-pineapple marinated pork
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Tacos al Pastor

Chilli-and-pineapple marinated pork, grilled hard and served in small tortillas with onion, coriander and more pineapple.

12 hr 55 minServes 6
MexicanPork
Zombie — shot from directly overhead, the table surface filling the frame
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Zombie

Three rums, two juices, falernum and absinthe over crushed ice — the strongest drink on any tiki menu, and built to taste as though it is not.

8 minServes 1
15 minutesAmericanCitrus