Ingredients:
6 Roma Tomatoes, chopped or 4 or 5 small vine tomatoes, chopped
2 or 3 long green hot peppers, seeded (and or 1 bell pepper, any color)
½ purple onion, peeled & finely chopped (and or scallions finely chopped)
1 or 2 cloves of garlic, minced
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 lime, zest and juice
Salt and Pepper to taste (dash of chili powder, optional)
Cilantro (small handful, chopped)
6 Roma Tomatoes, chopped or 4 or 5 small vine tomatoes, chopped
2 or 3 long green hot peppers, seeded (and or 1 bell pepper, any color)
½ purple onion, peeled & finely chopped (and or scallions finely chopped)
1 or 2 cloves of garlic, minced
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 lime, zest and juice
Salt and Pepper to taste (dash of chili powder, optional)
Cilantro (small handful, chopped)
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Even though our garden veggies are not ready yet, the warmer weather has gotten me excited about salsa. One thing I love to eat all summer long is fresh salsa! I could and will pretty much put it on anything from corn chips to rice or quinoa, to a chicken breast. Before we got our food processor, I would chop everything with a knife, which works well… but I find it much easier and quicker now. “Pulse, pulse, pulse” and I am done! It takes a total of about 10 minutes from start to finish and I find I make it way more often since the addition of a food processor to our “kitchen family”.
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I pretty much use whatever I have on hand, whether it be green, red or long green hot peppers, purple onion or scallions (sometimes both), cilantro or parsley, Roma or small vine tomatoes. Most often I use fresh garlic, but not always. Sometimes I even add a few slices of melon to give it a bit of sweetness. One thing I ALWAYS include is the lime. The lime in my opinion is the STAR to my fresh yummy salsa. I also always use the long green hot peppers (dark green finger or Hungarian) as we like a bit of heat to our salsa with that fresh limey blast!
So just give those veggies a rinse and a rough chop (remove stems, cut in halves, seed the peppers), toss them into the food processor, add the oil, the lime juice and the zest (for a more mild lime flavor, leave the zest out....Are you crazy!?) and the salt & pepper(s) to taste. “Pulse, pulse, pulse” to your desired chunkiness. Yum! No food processor? Get chopping with your best sharp knife… be careful please. This makes enough mangialicious salsa for about 4-6 people.
So just give those veggies a rinse and a rough chop (remove stems, cut in halves, seed the peppers), toss them into the food processor, add the oil, the lime juice and the zest (for a more mild lime flavor, leave the zest out....Are you crazy!?) and the salt & pepper(s) to taste. “Pulse, pulse, pulse” to your desired chunkiness. Yum! No food processor? Get chopping with your best sharp knife… be careful please. This makes enough mangialicious salsa for about 4-6 people.
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