anyone have a great DIY salsa recipe?

Using a wok or frying pan to cook it up, you will need:

1 punnet of pomodorino cherry tomatos
1 green pepper
1 yellow pepper
1 onion
1 clove garlic
3 green/red chillies or combine if you prefer
chives
Salt
Pepper

Heat some oil in a pan (I use chilli oil), finely chop the peppers+onions and put them into the pan, lightly fry while moving them all the time while they sweat (dont have the pan too hot or allow the mix to brown)**
Finely slice the chillies and add them to the pan (with seeds if you can handle the heat) - next, half the tomatoes and add them, again making sure the pan is not too hot, you don't want to burn anythin - if any of the mix is sticking to the pan - it's too hot - next, finely slice or chop the garlic and add this - using scissors, cut the chives over the pan into the mix, stir them in...add salt and ground pepper...the pan should be on the heat, in total from the time you start for about 20 minutes.

Enjoy
 
I've made it but I made it raw and I think that was a mistake I think you have to cook it like above or it's very sweet tasting and I hate the taste of raw tomato.

I used:

Half a punnet of cherry tomatoes (but half a tin of chopped toms would do)
1 clove of garlic
half an onion
1 whole green chilli
Salt

Basically stuck the toms in the blender and blitzed until smooth, they go pink when they are raw but cooked they keep all their red colour. Added 1/4 onion, the garlic and half the chilli to the blender then roughly chopped the remaining onion and chilli and added that last so it had a bit of texture. I would probably cook off the tomato with the garlic and half chilli, allow to cool and add the rest of the ingredients raw :)
 
Jonny69 said:
Added 1/4 onion, the garlic and half the chilli to the blender then roughly chopped the remaining onion and chilli and added that last so it had a bit of texture. I would probably cook off the tomato with the garlic and half chilli, allow to cool and add the rest of the ingredients raw :)
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Hey Jonny, I know you are a cooking god of the forums but I think you made a mistake putting the onion in the blender... from what I've been told and read if you do this the onions get chopped up "too much" or too many cells broken or whatever and they release too much oniony flavor? Thus making the salsa overpowered with onion... did you find this to be the case?

Most places recommend using the blender for everything else but dicing the onion by hand!
 
Loki said:
Its nice if you add a squeeze half a lime in it. Gives it a real sharp flavour
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Yeah that's one thing I wanna try... I love sticking lime in spicy dishes as it really adds a magical double flavour!

Sometimes I'll put some lime into a hot curry because first you get the hot spicy curry explosion taste followed by a sharp soothing citrus burst.. it's quite magical!
 
Jonny69 said:
I've made it but I made it raw and I think that was a mistake I think you have to cook it like above or it's very sweet tasting and I hate the taste of raw tomato.
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Add lemon juice/wine vineagr either/both. Then leave at room temperature for a few hours. It starts to break down the tomatoes. And still gives that fresh taste which you lose when cooking.

plumb tomatoes
2 chillis
garlic
basil/coriander
Lemon juice/red wine vinegar/Balsamic vinegar/lime juice (all depends what taste your going for)
Olive oil

That gives you the base, then you can add all sorts. very finely diced pepper makes a very good version. Red onion is better than white, milder flavour perfect for raw salsas.

But make and leave for a few hours at room temprature.
 
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Cooked salsa isn't the real stuff ? As usual, its the Americanised version. Can't understand why anyone would cook the stuff ???

Here's my recipe - for free.

1/2 Cucumber (cut 1/4 length ways and remove seeds - leave skin on)
1 small red onion
2 medium Tomatoes
1 red pepper
1/2 teaspoon chilli powder
2 tablespoons chopped coriander / parsley (fresh)
1 Tablespoon of Tomatoe Puree
1 tablespoon lime juice
1 tablespoon black pepper
1/2 crushed clove of garlic
Generous sprinkling of salt.

(if its too bitter - add 1 teaspoon of honey)

Cut up all ingrediants in a big dish, leave in fridge for 2hours.

Divos Proper Salsa ;) (copied & changed from a well known chef)
 
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Scam said:
Truth^. I much prefer making Guacamole though.
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I prefer guacemole too, but it's good to have both and you're supposed to put a little salsa into the gaucemole in most gaucemole recipes anyway. :)
 
Docaroo said:
Hey Jonny, I know you are a cooking god of the forums but I think you made a mistake putting the onion in the blender... from what I've been told and read if you do this the onions get chopped up "too much" or too many cells broken or whatever and they release too much oniony flavor? Thus making the salsa overpowered with onion... did you find this to be the case?

Most places recommend using the blender for everything else but dicing the onion by hand!
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It was only a small onion but that's a good point. I just kind of made it up as I went but it didn't turn out how I was expecting :D

I'm by no means a cooking god btw, I just like eating :p
 
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