anyone have a great DIY salsa recipe?

Docaroo · 13 Jul 2007 at 10:10

There's far too many online to trawl through....

Would love a nice little recipe for a hot tomato salsa for dipping nachos in!

Thanks!!

Docaroo · 13 Jul 2007 at 20:58

sounds great and simple... many thanks! Some internet ones go into too much detail and are too complicated but that seems a great base to experiment from!

Damn I love salsa...

Docaroo · 14 Jul 2007 at 11:30

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

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!

Docaroo · 14 Jul 2007 at 11:31

Loki said:
Its nice if you add a squeeze half a lime in it. Gives it a real sharp flavour

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!