Restaurant Level Salsa is a CINCH and inexpensive to make at home. This recipe is ridiculously simple to make, just throw all the ingredients in your food processor or blender, process it, and ta-da! Amazing Restaurant Level Salsa is ready.
Making homemade, restaurant-level salsa at home is not only easy, but cheap, and is best – BEST! – made with canned tomatoes. While fresh tomatoes make great pico de gallo, you gotta go with canned tomatoes if you want that true restaurant flavor.
Here is the quick recipe:
Ingredients
- 28 ounce can whole plum tomatoes including juice
- 1 small white onion peeled and roughly chopped
- 1 – 2 jalapeno peppers seeded and chopped
- 3 cloves garlic chopped
- 1 1/2 teaspoons ground cumin or to taste
- 1 teaspoon salt or to taste
- take 1/4 to 1 teaspoon granulated sugar optional, and to taste
- 1 – 2 handfuls cilantro I prefer 2
- About 3 tablespoons lime juice
Instructions
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Add all ingredients to a food processor in the order listed.
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Pulse a few times to break up the large pieces, then process until the texture is as smooth as desired.
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Taste the salsa and based on personal preference, adjust as necessary.
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Transfer to an airtight container and let sit in the refrigerator for a couple of hours or 1 day for best flavor.
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Serve with tortilla chips and enjoy!
Notes
* Remove the seeds from jalapeno peppers to reduce the heat level. This way you’ll get all the fresh jalapeno flavor and some heat, but not a crazy amount of heat.
** Also add the teaspoon of sugar to balance out the acidity of the tomatoes and as it heightens the other flavors.
* If you’d like, you could stir in some corn kernels, black beans, or chopped tomatoes.
** Recipe makes approximately 4 cups.
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