I love salsa– on tortilla chips, tacos, pretzels, eggs, even with chunks of cheese.  Seriously, I think I could eat salsa at every meal.  I get tired of the boring salsa at the store– I can never find one that tastes the way I want it to on a particular day.  So, I decided to experiment.  The recipe below is yours– tweak it to your liking.  Some days I dump in an entire jar of jalapenos, other days I omit the green pepper– it’s completely up to your tastes.  The only suggestion I do have it to definitely make sure you add the sugar to break down the tomatoes and refrigerate it.  It’s better after it sits for awhile and chills.  (Okay, not saying I don’t take several tastes prior to chilling it…)  Enjoy!


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Tasty Tuesday: Quick Salsa
Recipe Type: Appetizer
Cuisine: Mexican
Author: Julia – Mom on the Run x2
Prep time:
Total time:
Serves: 6
Ingredients
  • 2 cans diced tomatoes
  • 1 can jalapeno rings
  • 1 green pepper, de-seeded and chunked
  • 1 medium onion, peeled and quartered
  • cilantro, to taste
  • 1/2 lemon
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1 tsp black pepper
  • 2-3 Tbs white sugar
Instructions
  1. In a food processor, pour diced tomatoes with approximately a quarter of the juice of one can; pulse for 5 seconds
  2. Add green pepper and onion; pulse until chopped up.
  3. Add jalapeno rings and some of the juice, if desired; pulse for 5 seconds.
  4. Pour salsa into a large bowl.
  5. Add salt, pepper, and sugar. Stir to combine well.
  6. Squeeze the juice of a 1/2 lemon into the bowl; Stir.
  7. Tear cilantro leaves from the stems and stir into bowl.
  8. Place in refrigerator at least 2 hours to chill and for the flavors to combine.
Calories: 47 Fat: .3 Carbohydrates: 11.5 Sugar: 6.2 Sodium: 470 Fiber: 1.5 Protein: 1.2 Cholesterol: 0.0
Notes
Nutritional values calculated using generic ingredients and the Spark People recipe calculator.

 

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Julia wants to live in a world where Hogwarts is real, dark chocolate is packaged with good books, and houses clean themselves. Until then, she is the divorced mom of twins, blogger, sometimes crafter, traveler, napper, cooker, snail mailer, geocacher, and corporate bean counter.

1 Comment on Tasty Tuesday: Quick Salsa

  1. Oh yeah! I love Salsa with tortilla chips. YUM!
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