Salsa My Way
From tuilelaith 16 years ago
- 3 hours to make
- Serves 12 pints
In the town I live in we had a little company 15 miles from us that made the best salsa I have ever had. They closed thier doors on me out of the blue. I took the ingredients label and worked this recipe up from it. Read more It"s as close as I could get it. Actually this is a recreation of my frist recipe as it was one of the recipes that I lost. I hope you enjoy it. See less
Ingredients
- 8 pints (16 cups or 1 gallon) diced tomatoes, fresh or can, fresh is best shopping list
- 6 large bell peppers, diced, green, yellow and orange add nice color to the salsa shopping list
- 2 large onions, diced, yellow have the strongest flavor shopping list
- 2 cups Green Chile peppers, diced shopping list
- 1 cup cilantro, chopped, if you do not like cilantro do not add this shopping list
- jalapeno's, diced, as many as you like, I no longer use them, tummy you know shopping list
- 8 cloves garlic, mashed -or-2 tablespoon garlic powder, fresh is best, to be honest I add a whole lot more garlic then this, we love garlic, probably about 3/4 a cup, I buy the jar of per minced garlic shopping list
- 1 Tablespoon pink hymalinn salt, ground fine; I assume if using canned tomatoes this will not be necessary, also I believe any salt would work shopping list
- 1 tablespoon white or black pepper, powder or ground shopping list
- 1 tablespoon red pepper, powder or crushed, So I just found out that Cayenne Pepper is also a member of the crushed red pepper family only it is a little hotter. I bought some to use in my next batch! shopping list
- 2 tablespoon cumin shopping list
- 1/4 cup brown sugar, or raw sugar cane shopping list
- 1/2 cup apple cider vinegar shopping list
How to make it
- 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 allergic to it. It tastes and smells like ivory soap to me and then I bloat out and have to go to the hospital. You may want to use a t1/2 cup or more of fresh chopped cilantro in your recipe. BTW Did you know that 14% of the worlds population does not like the flavor of cilantro for one reason or the other?
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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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Reviewed by 3 people-
Excellent, thanks for sharing this and great pics!
organicmama
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Salsa, is so versatile it can be adapted for almost every dish.
Michael
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in loved it
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I made this the other day it is a staple in my home.
Five forks and a smile :)
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