Salsa My Way Recipe

How to make it

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• Put all ingredients in large pot - bring to a rolling boil - turn down heat - Cook 20 minutes.
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• Pour into a sterile glass gallon jar.
• Put into the fridge and serve at will.
• This lasts us about 2 weeks.
• I guess that you could put this in pint jars and can them if you like.
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• You will find that I did not include cilantro in this recipe.
• I am in the 4 to 14 % of people in the world to whom it tastes like soap to!!! Oddly, it appears my children are also in this group.
• You may want to use a 1/2 cup or more of fresh chopped cilantro in your recipe.
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• Leaving everything raw will result in a salsa with a bright, refreshing taste. Raw salsa is also known as "salsa cruda."
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• Roasting the tomatoes, garlic and/or chiles first will lend a rich, smoky flavor to your finished dish.
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• If you cook the salsa, you'll trade in the fresh taste for a deeper, sweeter one.
• --My NOTE--
• I use the liquid, if I use 8 cans of diced tomatoes - I use the liquid in the cans. If I use fresh tomatoes, I save the juice off of them. I prefer a thin sauced chunky salsa. It is for this reason I do not use a food processor or tomato sauce in the recipe. Its the way La Casa(??) made it before they closed their door. And yes I know their is a brand out there called that, but it came out after this place closed up and it is not the same...
• NOTE FROM ERMA: If using crushed tomatoes, which I did this time, because I got them from the food pantry, you will need to add tomato juice to the list of ingredient, I am going to start with 2 cups, I do not want to kill the thickness of this batch to much!
• So in the end I added a quart of tomato juice.
• NOTE 2: I canned this batch, it is just 2 of us now and only I like salsa so I needed to learn how to can today too!!! Go ME!
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• BTW Did you know that 14% of the worlds population does not like the flavor of cilantro for one reason or the other?
• (an estimated 4-14% of the population)
• https://food52.com/blog/21868-i-finally-understand-the-science-behind-why-people-hate-cilantro-so-much
• It seems that a mutation on a gene found on the 11th chromosome might cause cilantro haters to experience certain alkanals, chemical compounds that carry scent, differently from the rest of us cilantro-loving folk. Why this manifests as distinctly soapy is still beyond scientists.