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Crema Recipe
Crema is thinner than sour cream, a little more tangy and slightly salty You can sometimes find it in stores, but it’s very simple to make at home by combining sour cream with heavy cream and lime juice (you could use buttermilk instead) and allowing it to set up at room temperature for a few hours, until it turns into a kind of liquid velvet It’s marvelous with fish tacos, as a dressing for hot slaw, or drizzled over roasted carrots or sweet potatoes
sour cream, heavy cream, salt, lime juice
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Maple Crema Recipe
If you can start with truly natural dairy — definitely not ultrapasteurized and ideally bought from a farm or a farmers’ market— you are really ahead of the game The reason I fell in love with this maple crema is that all the flavors were so pure that the maple syrup shone like a star.
maple syrup, heavy cream, milk, egg yolks, sugar
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Burned-Scallion Crema Recipe
This is a hopped-up, smoky version of a traditional Mexican crema, thinner than sour cream, with more tang, and a slightly salty bite I like it matched with slab-bacon tacos and it is marvelous drizzled over roasted cabbage or sweet potatoes I've plopped it into black bean soup. It's a nice addition to a quesadilla, and I enjoy it on a burger enrobed with jack cheese and topped with pickled jalapenos
green scallions, pepper, sour cream, mayonnaise, salt, limes
