In the pantry · 14 uses
jalapeno
Heat that lives in the ribs and seeds, not the flesh, so you can dial it precisely by how much you take out. Sliced thin and raw it is bright; roasted it turns sweet and loses most of the fight.
6
dishes and drinks that need it
8
more where it is worth adding
83%
of those are under 30 min
What it is usually standing next to
Lime is in 67% of the dishes that call for it — close enough to be a rule rather than a habit.
Counted off required ingredients across the whole corpus. A companion listed here is one these dishes are built from, not one we are recommending.
If you have twenty minutes
Built on it · 6
Take it out and the dish is something else. Fastest first.
Worth adding · 8
These work without it. They work better with it.