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Substitutions · 199 dishes here use it
Sharper and more floral than lemon, and it fades faster — juice it the same hour you use it. In a drink it is structure; in food it goes on last.
Everything below is judged against that job. A swap that covers it is a swap; one that only looks similar is not.
42 of the 199 dishes here that mention lime list it as optional — 21% of them. In those, the correct substitution is nothing.
Instead · 1
one for one
Instead · 2
the same volume, a quarter teaspoon of sugar per tablespoon
What none of them do
Nothing gets you lime zest and nothing gets you a wheel on the glass. If the lime was going on top, the answer is to serve it without and say so.
These dishes list lime as optional. They were written to work without it, so no ratio is needed and nothing has to be bought.
Showing 30 of 42. The rest are on the ingredient page.
These need it and are short enough that nothing hides: 4 required ingredients or fewer, which makes lime a quarter of what is in the pan. Make the swap a decision rather than a repair.
Showing the 30 shortest of 92.
The company lime keeps in this library, counted off required ingredients. A swap that argues with the top two is the wrong swap, whatever a chart says.