5 Minute Restaurant Style Salsa
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5 Minute Restaurant Style Salsa
Description
The 5 Minute Restaurant Style Salsa combines cored fresh or canned tomatoes with a modest amount of onion to avoid overpowering the flavor. Garlic is gently smashed and added along with half a seeded jalapeño to control the heat level. Fresh cilantro leaves provide herbaceous brightness, while lime juice, cumin, salt, sugar, and optional black pepper round out the savory and citrus notes.
The ingredients are briefly pulsed in a food processor or blender, with stops to scrape down the bowl, to maintain a chunky texture without compromising freshness. The salsa is ready to serve immediately but benefits from sitting overnight to let the flavors meld and develop a more cohesive taste with brightness from the lime and cilantro balancing the slight sweetness and heat.
This salsa suits serving with tortilla chips or as an accompaniment to various dishes and indicates experimenting with adding canned green chiles for additional flavor.
Ingredients
- 2 tomato 12 ounces OR 1 (14.5 oz) can diced tomatoes
- 1/4 small onion don't go crazy. You don't want dragon breath
- 1/2 clove garlic or 1 very small clove
- 1/2 jalapeño seeds and membranes discarded
- 3 tablespoons cilantro
- 2 teaspoons lime juice fresh! fresh!
- 1/4 teaspoon cumin
- 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1/8 teaspoon sugar
- black pepper to taste, optional
Instructions
- Core the tomatoes and slice them in half. Add them to a food processor or blender.
- If you are using canned tomatoes, drain them in a colander. Or squeeze a handful at a time out over the sink. Add drained tomatoes to the blender.
- Add the onion. Smash the garlic with the side of a knife and add that too.
- Add half a jalapeno.
- Add the cilantro. I just chopped off what looked like about 3 tablespoons worth of leaves from the bunch and threw it in. You can always add more if you want.
- Add the lime juice, cumin, salt, sugar, and black pepper.
- Pulse the mixture about 1 full second at a time until blended. Stop a few times to scrape down the edges so you get everything chopped up. Don't go overboard or it will get too watery.
- Serve with chips! Juanitas are the best chips. The salsa tastes great right away, but is even better the next day, after the flavors have married. Such a great union.
Notes
- Consider adding well-drained canned green chiles, preferably fire roasted, for an additional smoky flavor.
- The salsa tastes best after resting overnight, allowing the flavors to combine and deepen.
Nutrition Information
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Serving: 4Servings
Amount Per Serving
Calories 16 kcal
% Daily Value*
| Serving | 1cup | |
| Calories | 16kcal | 1% |
| Carbohydrates | 3g | 1% |
| Protein | 1g | 2% |
| Fat | 1g | 2% |
| Saturated Fat | 1g | 5% |
| Polyunsaturated Fat | 1g | 6% |
| Monounsaturated Fat | 1g | 5% |
| Potassium | 165mg | 4% |
| Fiber | 1g | 4% |
| Sugar | 2g | 4% |
| Vitamin A | 554IU | 11% |
| Vitamin C | 12mg | 13% |
| Calcium | 10mg | 1% |
| Iron | 1mg | 6% |
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
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