Sometimes I go to restaurants that I don't even like that much just for the free chips and salsa. Today I decided to make my own. It was just as good.
Ingredients:
One small can of diced tomatoes. Next time I might use tomato sauce just to see how it tastes.
Half a tomato.
A bit of white onion.
Half a handful of cilantro.
Dried oregano.
Dash of cumin.
Pepper flakes.
Green onion.
Lime juice.
Salt and pepper.
This is very easy and quick to make. The counterintuitive key here is that the majority of the salsa is actually just pureed canned tomatoes or tomato sauce. If you cut up too many veggies it makes the sauce too thick and it's not like restaurant salsa.
Take the diced tomatoes and put it in the blender with the cilantro, oregano and salt and pepper. Blend it for the least amount of time possible to puree the tomatoes and chop up the cilantro into little bits. If you over blend it it gets all bubbly and pinkish color instead of red.
Chop up the rest of the veggies like for a pico de gallo but really small. Put it in a bowl and pour over the tomato puree. Squeezing some lime juice and if you want dice some green tomatoes and add that in. Stir It Up and taste it to see if it has enough salt. Remember restaurants put a lot of salt in everything. So if you want it to taste like that you're going to have to put enough salt. Then take half a lime to a full lime and add it to taste. In my opinion this salsa can be ruined by too much lime. And I love lime! This is the same reason why I put a few dashes of cumin in Stir It Up and taste it and add some more. Too much cumin will destroy the salsa. But just a touch makes it perfect.
Buen provecho!!
by LiveToDryAnotherDay