Sunday, August 23, 2009

Stephen's Garden Cilantro Limy Salsa

My husband is a fabulous salsa maker. I finally got around to documenting what he does to make his fabulous salsa. He just makes it up as he goes, with what ever fresh ingredients he has from the garden. I thought it would be fun to make a recipe of it, so here you go....


Step #1 Find your favorite song of the day and a tasty beverage(Stephen's suggestion)


Step #2 Gather your equipment. A food processor, a lime juicer, a knife and a cutting board.

Step #3 Gather ingredients
Onions: 1 1/2 medium sized
Minced Garlic: 3 tsps
Hot Peppers: 2 small/or 2 jalapenos if you don't want much heat.
Green Bell Peppers: 5 medium sized
Cherry Tomatoes/Larger Tomatoes: enough to fill a medium sized mixing bowl
Tomatillos: We used about 17 small guys this time. These can be expensive at the store, so grow your own:) 8-9 large tomatillos will work also. Or skip if you don't have.

4 limes

1 TBL Salt

1/4 cup Olive Oil

1 Bunch of Cilantro


Step #4 Lets begin...

Taste your hot peppers so you know what you're dealing with.



does it make your eyes water?... then it's perfect!

Add your hot peppers(seeds and all) to the food processor. Add Quartered onion slices, 3 tsp of minced garlic. Puree until there are no big chunks. Stephen hates eating chunks of raw onion, so puree it well. Then dump into a large bowl.

Next... remove seeds from bell peppers and add them to the food processor. Process until slightly chunky. Dump into large bowl.

Quarter the tomitallo's and process until slightly chunky and add to bowl.

At this point you have an all green salsa. Next up, the Tomatoes.

Add tomatoes to processor until in small chunks. Add to the bowl.


Now it's time to season:
Juice your limes into the salsa.
Start with 2 limes and add more to taste. Stephen like limes so he ended up adding 4.

1 Tbls Salt
1/4 cup Olive Oil
1 Bunch Cilantro (finely chopped with knife)



ENJOY

5 comments:

Marie said...

Yum, sounds and looks good!

Darbee said...

There is nothing better than fresh salsa! Yum! Thanks for making my mouth water! :)

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archaeoamy said...

Oooh! That looks sooo yummy!

Natalie B. said...

So I have hot peppers growing and I don't know when they will be ready to use? Every site I look at says they are ripe when they reach the size of the peppers your find in the store- would someone just give me a straight answer please!
I will have to try this reciepe. Right now I have more cherry tomatoes than anything. Looks yummy!

Karolynn said...

Thank you, thank you, thank you for sharing this amazing salsa! We ate the entire bottle. We were fighting over it and Janika ate most of it. We are totally making this! Stephen is my hero!