Chile-Lime Seasoning, Herbs & Seasonings

Our Chile-Lime Seasoning captures the combination of chile pepper, lime juice and sea salt that is used by street food vendors in Mexico to season fresh fruit for a delicious and traditional snack. It blends together a bold mix of flavors to provide a unique hot, tangy and salty balance that is perfect for sprinkling over fresh fruit such as mango, papaya, pineapple or melon (often traditionally accompanied by jicama...

All about Chile-Lime Seasoning, Spice Blend

What it’s like, and how to make it

HeatMild

CuisineMexican & latin

Best forGrill bbq, roasting, finishing, marinades rubs

Goes inDips sauces, beverages cocktails, salads dressings

WithChicken, pork, beef, fish seafood, vegetarian, bison

What’s in itlime juice powder, lime peel, paprika, black pepper, onion, chiles, mexican oregano, sea salt, garlic

How to use it

Mexico's everything spice. Shake on fresh fruit, rim a margarita glass, toss with jicama and cucumber, or sprinkle on grilled corn and avocado. One tablespoon mixed with mayo or crema makes an instant street food sauce. Also transforms grilled shrimp, fish tacos, and roasted chickpeas. Mild heat with a serious citrus punch.

Weeknight ideas

fish, tacos

Chile-Lime Seasoning spice, shown over a chalk-and-watercolour illustration

Illustration: Chile-Lime Seasoning with El Tajín in the green hills of Veracruz

What’s in it

Every herb in the blend, and where to read about it on its own.

Spice · Caffeine-free

Paprika
Capsicum annuum
Dried sweet red peppers, ground. It is in twenty-eight products here mostly for colour and body — paprika gives a rub or a stew its red without adding heat, and it carries a soft, sweet pepper flavour that fills in the gaps between louder spices....
Sweet red pepper, no heat, vivid colour; the smoked one adds deep oak smoke
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Spice · Caffeine-free

Black Pepper
Piper nigrum
The dried unripe berry of a climbing vine — the mill on every table, and the most travelled object in any kitchen. Black, white and green pepper are all the same berry, picked at different moments and treated differently: black is picked unripe and dried...
Warm, woody, resinous and sharp; the bite is piperine, roughly a hundredth as potent as capsaicin
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Spice · Caffeine-free

Onion
Allium cepa
Dried onion, in three grinds: granulated blooms in oil, minced rehydrates into pieces you can see, and powder disappears into a dip or a rub. Twenty-seven products carry it. Drying takes 96 per cent of the water out and, with it, the sulfur compounds that...
Toasty, sweet and savoury; none of raw onion's sharpness
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Spice · Caffeine-free

Chile
Capsicum annuum
Dried chile peppers, whole, crushed or ground — the generic heat in twenty-nine products here, from curry powders to jerk to Tex-Mex. Heat comes from capsaicin and is measured in Scoville heat units; the shop's blends name theirs where the supplier gives a figure. The...
Heat first, then a dry, fruity red-pepper taste; the darker dried chiles run raisiny and the lighter ones bright and tannic
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Herb · Caffeine-free

Oregano
Origanum vulgare; Mexican oregano is Lippia graveolens
Two different plants sold under one name, and the difference matters. Mediterranean oregano is a mint-family herb — pungent, warm, peppery, a little bitter and piney, and it is the pizza herb. Mexican oregano is a verbena, unrelated, and it is bolder, more citrusy and...
Mediterranean: pungent, warm, peppery and a little piney. Mexican: bolder, citrusy, earthy, a touch of anise
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Salt · Caffeine-free

Sea Salt
Sodium chloride
Seawater, evaporated. It is in twenty-five products here, which understates it — salt is the ingredient that makes every other ingredient taste like itself. Fine sea salt dissolves on contact and is the everyday cooking salt: a teaspoon in a soup pot, half a teaspoon...
Clean salinity with nothing else in the way
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Spice · Caffeine-free

Garlic
Allium sativum
A bulb, dried and broken down to three different coarsenesses, and the single most common ingredient in this catalogue — forty-three products carry it. Granulated is coarse and blooms slowly in hot oil; minced is visible pieces that plump up in a sauce; powder disappears...
Sweet, toasty and savoury; deeper and rounder than fresh garlic, without the raw bite
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Fruit · Caffeine-free

Lime
Citrus × aurantiifolia
Dried lime juice, as a powder. One product carries it, and the reason to use a powder rather than a fruit is the same as for dried lemon: it brings sourness to a dry blend without wetting it, so a chile-lime seasoning can taste sharp...
Sharply sour with a floral bitterness — brighter and less rounded than lemon
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Fruit · Caffeine-free

Lime Peel
Citrus × aurantiifolia
Dried lime zest — aroma without acid, which is the opposite half of what lime juice powder gives. The flavour lives in the coloured outer layer, the flavedo; the white pith beneath is bitter. One product carries it, alongside the juice powder, which is the...
Bright floral lime aroma with a clean bitterness and no sourness
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What it goes with

Lime and bergamot are citrus cousins. Brew our Earl Grey iced alongside anything you'd shake this on — the bergamot echoes the lime. For a fruit-forward alternative, try our Bella Coola cold-brewed as a tea agua fresca.

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Earl Grey Blue Flower, Organic

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Where it takes you

Taco Tuesday in TulumEverything you need. Even the drinks.

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