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Sunday, August 14, 2005
I love salsas. It's too bad there's so many substandard commercial salsas out there. For a while I've been trying to make my own, but the standard tomato/onion/jalapeno/cilantro/lime juice ones in so many recipe books never turn out that great. On Saturday, however, I got a salsa cookbook which has a number of different salsa recipes as well as dishes to make with them. I made the first yesterday, and it was freakin' awesome. If you like cooking (and it's a cool day, it requires the oven), give this a try. It uses mostly the same ingredients as the standard ones I've made before, but the roasting just makes it taste soooo much better.
Roasted Jalapeno-Tomato Salsa with fresh Cilantro
Delicious!
Roasted Jalapeno-Tomato Salsa with fresh Cilantro
- 1/2 lbs ripe tomatoes (it says use 10 plum tomatoes, I used 5 medium-large hothouse)
- 2-3 jalapenos, stemmed (even 2 makes it pretty hot)
- 1/2 small white onion, sliced 1/4 inch thick
- 4 peeled garlic cloves
- 1/3 c fresh cilantro
- 1 tsp salt (I didn't add this, I've not been adding salt to dishes for a while)
- 1 1/2 tsp cider vinegar
- Heat broiler. Lay tomatoes and jalepenos on baking sheet lined with foil, broil for 6 minutes on each side. They should have a few nice black spots when done. Set aside to cool.
- Turn down oven to 425. Seperate the onions into rings, and cook them with the garlic (not chopped) for about 15 minutes on the baking sheet.
- It says "for a less rustic texture" peel the tomatoes and cut out the cores.
- Pulse the jalapenos with onion and garlic.
- Coarsely puree the tomatoes.
- Mix onion/jalapeno/garlic mixture with tomatoes, and add the cilantro, salt and vinegar.
Delicious!
Comments:
It is too spicy.
It's all about the fresh cilantro. really.
And if Geoff says 2 jalepenos is 'pretty hot', then the rest of us normal people will be drinking extra liquid for days.
Herdez is a pretty good commercial salsa, though. It's in the 'mexican' aisle of most supermarkets.
And if Geoff says 2 jalepenos is 'pretty hot', then the rest of us normal people will be drinking extra liquid for days.
Herdez is a pretty good commercial salsa, though. It's in the 'mexican' aisle of most supermarkets.
Heh, I was going to add something to the effect of "Herdez is a good commercial salsa" to my post, but then forgot. The trouble is, I keep on getting it, so I need something different.
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