Salsa
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Salsa is the Spanish, Arabic, and Italian word that can refer to any type of sauce. In American English it usually refers to the spicy, often tomato- or corn-based hot sauces typical of Mexican cuisine, particularly those used as dips. |
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Ingredients
- 5-6 small ripe tomatoes
- 1 anaheim pepper (or if you are BRAVE a jalapeño pepper)
- 1/2 cup chopped green bell pepper
- 1/4 cup chopped onion (red onion suggested)
- 2 small garlic cloves - finely chopped cilantro
1 large lime - 2 tablespoons olive oil
- salt - black pepper Cayenne pepper (optional)
Methods/steps
- Dice all tomatoes. Put all the juice and as much of the seeds as you want into your large mixing bowl.
- Repeat step 1 with the bell pepper, onion, anheim pepper, cilantro, and garlic. Place these into your small mixing bowl.
- Add the bell pepper, red onion, cilantro, and garlic to the bowl with diced tomatoes. Stir gently to combine all ingredients.
- Cut lime into quarters and squeeze the quarters over the tomato mixture.
- Add olive oil. The salt, black pepper and cayenne you will add to taste. Start with a pinch and go from there.
- Stir mixture gently, taste and if it is rockin’, then go ahead and cover and refrigerate for 2 hours before serving!
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