# Cooking With Tequila **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** food-cooking\ **Created:** [October 26, 2024, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cooking-with-tequila/1009234 "2024-10-26T02:21:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![DorkVader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/73ab20/32.png) [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2024, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cooking-with-tequila/1009234/1 "2024-10-26T02:21:31Z")
I am looking for suggestions and your recipes(family, abuela’s, secret whatever) for dishes incorporating tequila. I’ve looked at several different recipe websites and they all have variations on the same damn recipe of chicken/pork/(usually)flank steak in tequila marinade served with lime. That’s not what I’m looking for. There has to be more than just that, right? There’s got to be Tequila Chili or Mescal Mustard for hotdogs(weelllll maybe not that one, maybe 🤔) right? So I’m asking you all for your help and experiences and tips on this please. And yes, I know, tequila and mescal, not same, but hey, mescal mustard just kinda rolls off the tongue ---
**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2024, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cooking-with-tequila/1009234/2 "2024-10-26T02:31:26Z")
All I can tell you is that tequila works in place of vodka when making vodka sauce for pasta and you’re out of vodka. That’s all I got … ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2024, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cooking-with-tequila/1009234/3 "2024-10-26T03:34:51Z")
I just finished off the last slice of tequila key lime pie a guest brought to dinner last weekend. I have no idea how it’s made but it tasted great. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2024, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cooking-with-tequila/1009234/4 "2024-10-26T13:58:13Z")
Here’s my favorite method for cooking with tequila: mix fresh squeezed lime juice, Cointreau (or other quality orange liquor), tequila, and just enough simple syrup to take the edge off the sourness of the lime juice. Pour over ice and drink while making dinner. Seriously, the only thing I can think of is shrimp cooked in a tequila lime sauce, but it’s probably just another variation of the “same damn recipe of chicken/pork/(usually)flank steak in tequila marinade served with lime” that the OP mentioned. ---
**Author:** ![Chingon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chingon/32/17645_2.png) [@Chingon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chingon)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2024, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cooking-with-tequila/1009234/5 "2024-10-26T14:05:28Z")
It’s very good when making cranberry sauce. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2024, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cooking-with-tequila/1009234/6 "2024-10-26T14:42:49Z")
Tequila marries surprisingly well with caramel. I’ve had tequila-caramel desserts a couple of times and thought, I should make that. Never got around to it, but doesn’t seem like it would be that difficult. Here’s the first recipe that popped up. It’d be easy to pull the caramel component out and make it by itself, for drizzling on ice cream or something. > **[Vanilla Tropical Fruit Flan with Tequila Caramel Sauce - Nielsen-Massey Vanillas](https://nielsenmassey.com/recipes/vanilla-tropical-fruit-flan-tequila-caramel-sauce/)** ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2024, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cooking-with-tequila/1009234/7 "2024-10-27T14:39:23Z")
That would be my guess… maybe something like adding some to whipped cream could be good? Or maybe in pie fillings? Tequila’s got some pretty vegetal flavors, which are probably why it pairs with lime so well. I would also imagine that you might be able to use anejo tequila in some of the same places you can Scotch or other whiskey, like barbecue sauces or meat marinades. I don’t know that I’d sub it in for Bourbon in desserts though; so much of its flavor is from the barrels and is vanilla-like, that anejo tequila wouldn’t necessarily match up well. ---
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2024, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cooking-with-tequila/1009234/8 "2024-10-27T14:49:45Z")
> [@DorkVader](#): > > Tequila Chili Sure: > **[Tequila Chili](https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/140099/tequila-chili/)** > > This simple and quick one-pot chili has great flavor and is nice and meaty. This webpage has a few other ideas: > **[15 Top-Rated Ways to Cook with Tequila](https://www.allrecipes.com/gallery/cooking-with-tequila/)** > > These 5-star recipes call for a generous splash of tequila, which adds flavor of its own to the dishes while also drawing out flavors from other ingredients -- that's one of the secrets of cooking with alcohol! It coaxes out the best from other...