Good afternoon, my reader. In combination with salsa, any dish acquires an exquisite taste and becomes a hit of the meal. Spicy Mexican sauce is used as a seasoning for meat and fish dishes, and is added to burritos and fajitas. Salsa lovers will also appreciate the taste. You can buy the sauce at any grocery store, but it's much more fun to prepare it yourself. The result will be especially good if you plucked the vegetables used in the cooking process from your own garden.
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Ingredients
The list below does not contain exotic products. And the recipe itself is extremely simple and does not require any special tricks from you. The secret of the magical taste of salsa lies in the fact that in the process of preparing the sauce, chefs use very fresh vegetables - these are the ingredients you have to find in the nearest market or in your own garden.
- Tomatoes - 0.5 kg. When choosing the main ingredient, attention should be paid to the degree of maturity. They should be juicy and spread a pleasant scent.
- Hot pepper - 1 pc. Green jalapeno peppers are good for making salsa. You can also use other varieties of chili, the main thing is that their pulp spreads a characteristic aroma and burns when consumed.
- Bulgarian pepper - 1 pc.
- Onions - 1 pc.
- Garlic - 3 cloves.
- Lemon juice - 2 tsp l.
- Table vinegar - 1 tsp l.
- Granulated sugar - 2 tsp l.
- Coarse salt - 1 tbsp. l.
- Parsley.
- Ground black pepper.
If desired, the sauce can be made more tender and less pungent. To do this, you need to reduce the amount of hot peppers or add a couple of tomatoes.
Cooking process
The recipe for making salsa cannot be called complicated or confusing, but only neat and responsible chefs can expect a good result. During the cooking process, you cannot neglect any of the steps described below:
- Rinse the tomatoes with cold water, carefully cut in several places and place in a deep container.
- Fill a bowl with tomatoes to the brim with boiling water.
- After 15 seconds, drain the boiling water, add ice water instead.
- After completing the described procedure, peel the tomatoes from the rough skin.
- Cut the tomato pulp into small cubes.
- Repeat the first five steps for hot peppers.
- Cut the bell pepper, peel and chop.
- Peel the onions and cut into small cubes.
- From the cloves of garlic, make a juicy mass by passing them through a special press or chopping them with a knife.
- Chop the parsley finely.
- Put all the above ingredients on the bottom of a deep saucepan, put the container on low heat.
- Season the mixture with lemon juice, salt and sugar.
- Mix the future sauce thoroughly, bring to a boil.
- Keep on fire for 20 minutes.
- Pour the resulting salsa into jars, in each vessel before closing, pour a small amount of vinegar.
- Roll up the cans, turn over and cover with a thick cloth.
- After the temperature of the workpieces drops to 25-30 ºC, remove the containers for storage.
The resulting supply of salsa will last for a long time - if you cooked it in the fall, you can enjoy the taste of the hot Mexican sauce all winter. Try using the aromatic seasoning to complement corn tortillas and tortillas, vegetable and fruit salads.
Do you know how to make salsa?
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