Spicy Garden Salsa

⏱ 10 mins 🍽 3 cups, 6 serving(s) 🌶 mexican 🏷 Sauces

This is a robust and hot Mexican salsa featuring pronounced flavours of onion and garlic. It is not a sweet version, with white vinegar providing a key sharp note. The recipe relies on selecting good quality, standard tomatoes for the best result. It yields approximately 3 cups, serving six people, and requires only 10 minutes of active preparation time.

Spicy Garden Salsa

Ingredients

  • 3/4 medium red onions or 6 1/2 ounces red onions
  • 2 -3 large jalapenos or 3 1/2 ounces jalapenos
  • 1 ounce cilantro
  • 3 medium tomatoes or 16 ounces tomatoes
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons salt
  • 1 tablespoon white vinegar
  • 4 teaspoons minced garlic

Method

  1. Place the peeled red onion, salt, white vinegar and minced garlic into a blender.
  2. Add the tomatoes to the blender. Standard tomatoes, ideally vine ripened, are recommended for superior flavour.
  3. Put the jalapeños into the blender. For more heat, include the seeds. for a milder salsa, remove them. Note that solid green jalapeños are milder, while those with white striations are hotter.
  4. Take the leafy end of the cilantro, removing the thicker stems at the bottom, and add the leafy part to the blender.
  5. Blend all the ingredients coarsely, then refrigerate the salsa for at least 2 hours to let the flavours combine.

Nutrition (per serving)

Sodium587800 mg

Recipe details

CategorySauces
Cuisinemexican
Authorksaxsma