Hey everybody. It's Sam here from Sugar Spun Run and today I'm showing you how to make an easy homemade salsa recipe.
As far as homemade salsa recipes go this is one of the easiest ones you will ever see. Lots of salsa recipes
required lots of chopping. Lots of mincing, but today we are going to be
having our blender do all of the hard work. If you like a nice restaurant style,
less chunky salsa, this is the recipe for you. Now to get started, the first thing I
want to talk about is the tomatoes. Now if you have garden fresh tomatoes,
especially if you have nice roma tomatoes, those are going to work
perfectly in this recipe. You'll need about five to seven roma tomatoes. You
want to chop the stems off. Give them a nice cleaning, and I usually will scrape
the seeds out of about half of them, just so my sauce is not too runny.
Now while I love using fresh tomatoes, right now tomatoes are not in season. My
garden is not anywhere close to giving me any tomatoes, and everything at the
supermarket is super waxy. They're not very red. They are not ideal for making
salsa. So if you find yourself in this predicament, a great alternative to fresh
tomatoes is canned diced tomatoes. Now I know you might be thinking. It probably
isn't going to taste very fresh. Actually these tomatoes have a great flavor, they
do taste very fresh and all of my family members could not tell that these, that
my salsa was made with these tomatoes. It was not made with garden fresh tomatoes. Now
I'm using fire roasted tomatoes, but regular diced tomatoes will work just as
well. You will need two, 14 ounce cans of diced tomatoes, or as I said 5 to 7 fresh
romas. I'm going to add these into my food processor.
When using canned tomatoes, I'll usually drain one of the cans and not the other.
This just keeps the salsa from being too thin or too runny. I like mine to not be
too thin. Now if you're using fresh tomatoes you do not need to dice them
like these are diced. I'll often cut mine in half just so they fit in the blender more easily but it is not required.
Next we'll add four ounces of diced green chilies and I always use the canned chilies even if I'm using fresh tomatoes.
Now here's where we get to play with the spiciness of our salsa. We are going to
be adding one or two jalapenos, depending on your taste. For a milder salsa, you'll
just want to add one. For a spicier salsa use two. Now I'm going to cut this
jalapeno in half. Get rid of that stem.
And you're going to want to scrape the seeds out of the center. Now you do not
want to add all of these seeds in that salsa. It' s going to be way too hot but for
a little added heat you can add a few seeds in as well.
Next we'll add 1/2 of a medium-sized white onion.
Next comes the cilantro. Now cilantro can be a little
bit hard to measure. So what I like to do is, I like to coarsely chop it and then
use 1/3 cup of the coarsely chopped cilantro.
This is the best way that I found to measure the cilantro. Now we'll add two cloves of garlic. Make sure to
cut off the ends and peel them before adding them to your blender.
Next you'll need 1 tablespoon of lime juice, and I really recommend using fresh lime juice.
And for me I'm usually able to get a tablespoon out of half of a squeezed lime.
Now we'll add our seasonings. We're going to start with two teaspoons of sugar, 1
teaspoon of salt, 3/4 teaspoon of ground black pepper, and just 1/4 teaspoon of cumin.
Now our blender is going to take care of
the rest of our work for us. We're going to put this on the base of our blender.
Add our lid. Now all that's left to do is we have to just pulse everything
together until all of our ingredients are nicely chopped up and completely
combined. This is only going to take a couple seconds.
That is how simple it is to make this salsa. Now for the best flavor I do recommend letting everything
sit for an hour before serving. Even better if you can let it sit overnight.
The flavors are really going to develop and meld as the salsa sits. Now I don't
have time to wait for that so I'm going to go ahead and start pouring mine and enjoying it now.
I will wish you guys could smell this because this homies also smells so good,
and so fresh, and I can't wait to dig in. I really hope you guys enjoyed today's
easy homemade salsa video, and if you try this one out please leave me a comment
and let me know what you think. Thank you guys so much for watching and I'll see you next time.
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