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Tequila Lime Marinade

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Tequila lime marinade is amazing and makes every recipe better!

Want to marinate your chicken and try something new? Try this Tequila lime marinade recipe you will love it. It is fresh and flavorful!

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It adds depth and flavor to your dish and you will get a super tasty dish. The best thing about this marinade you mix it up in no time and it ready to go. So are you ready to learn how to make tequila lime marinade? Let’s get started!

Want to marinate your chicken and try something new? Try this Tequila lime marinade recipe because you will love it. It is fresh and flavorful!

What You Need For This Recipe

For this marinade, you need a handful of ingredients. Put the following items on your grocery shopping list and have them ready when you start:

  • Tequila – I use Tequila blanco
  • Lime – fresh lime juice
  • Olive oil – oil and Tequille will not dissolve but you need both in this marinade
  • Seasoning – to season your protein add homemade chili powder
  • Garlic – fresh garlic finely minced
  • Pinch of salt – to season add salt
  • Black pepper – season to taste

Note that the full ingredients list, including measurements, can be found in the recipe card below.

Tequila Lime marinade ingredients

How To Make Tequila Lime Marinade

  1. To make this recipe start with a small bowl. Add the olive oil first and then add the freshly squeezed lime juice. Finely chop the garlic cloves.
  2. Then add the tequila and stir before you add the chili powder, garlic, salt, and black pepper. Instead of finely minced garlic, you can substitute it with garlic powder. Add it to the marinade and stir.
  3. Your marinade is ready to use.

Want to marinate your chicken and try something new? Try this Tequila lime marinade recipe because you will love it. It is fresh and flavorful!

The Best Tequila Marinade Recipe

If you have a bottle of tequila in your cupboard and have never cooked with it you definitely should. It gives a rich flavor to your main ingredients.

And any time a recipe calls for citrus it is a great opportunity to add in some tequila as well. It pairs well with Latin-inspired recipes,

You may worry that cooking with alcohol will leave alcohol in your dish but this is not the case. The alcohol in e.g. Tequila or wine evaporates during cooking.

The heat takes care of evaporating alcohol. In general, you can say that the longer you cook ingredients with alcohol, the more it will evaporate.

So, no need to worry that you can get drunk from alcohol in your recipes or that you can’t serve it to your children. Because you can.

Want to marinate your chicken and try something new? Try this Tequila lime marinade recipe because you will love it. It is fresh and flavorful!

How To Store Tequila Lime Marinade?

When you make this marinade recipe you can store it in a glass jar. Store in the refrigerator for about a week.

How To Use Lime Marinade?

This is such a great marinade that you can use with a lot of different dishes. When you use this marinade let it set for preferably 2 hours or even overnight.

If you do not have a lot of time let the ingredients marinate for at least 15 minutes. Try this tequila lime marinade with:

Want to marinate your chicken and try something new? Try this Tequila lime marinade recipe because you will love it. It is fresh and flavorful!

More Marinade Recipes

If you like this recipe, you will also love these marinade recipes:

  • Mexican chicken marinade – a great recipe to flavor your chicken breast or chicken thighs. A must-have recipe for your chicken recipe
  • Mexican steak marinade for fajitas – if you want tender and juicy fajitas then try this Mexican steak marinade
  • Chimichurri – technically it is not a marinade but you can use it as a marinade. Great with steak
  • BBQ rub – a perfect BBQ rub recipe to spice it up on the grill

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Tequila lime marinade

Tequila Lime Marinade

Serves: 4 Prep Time: 5 minutes Cooking Time: 0 minutes

Want to marinate your chicken and try something new? Try this Tequila lime marinade recipe you will love it. It is fresh and flavorful!

Ingredients

  • ΒΌ cup Tequila
  • 2 tablespoons lime juice
  • 2 tablespoons olive oil
  • 3 teaspoons chili powder
  • 3 cloves of garlic
  • Pinch of salt
  • Freshly ground black pepper to taste

Instructions

  1. Add the olive oil first and then add the freshly squeezed lime juice
  2. Finely chop the garlic cloves. Then add the tequila and stir before you add the chili powder, garlic, salt, and black pepper
  3. Your marinade is ready to use

Notes

Instead of finely minced garlic, you can substitute it with 1 teaspoon garlic powder

Nutrition facts

Calories: 104; Fat: 7.3g; Carbs: 1.8g; Protein: 0.4g;

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