Showing posts with label pico de gallo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pico de gallo. Show all posts

05 June 2009

Super Simple Salsa

My significant other's sister is graduating from teacher's college today... congratulations to her!

She is having a post-graduation ceremony party today, and asked if I would mind bringing a couple of appetizers. So I decided to bring guacamole (recipe from a previous post) and warm goat cheese coated in crushed almonds and peppercorns, and some extraordinarily simple homemade salsa that tastes like a lot more effort than it actually is.

Salsa (kind of more like pureed pico de gallo, really)
8 to 10 tomatoes, seeded and torn apart
2 tablespoons roughly chopped onion
1 jalapeno pepper, roughly chopped
2-3 cloves garlic, also roughly chopped (notice a trend here?)
few stalks of cilantro - take leaves off and use those. you can add a bit of the actual stalk if you want a stronger flavour.
juice of 1/2 a lime
salt to taste

Combine all ingredients, then, using an immersion blender, puree everything until it has the consistency you desire. It will not be thick - it isn't meant to be. Taste - add more salt if necessary, and/or just add more of whatever you like the most.

Cover and let sit for at least a few hours - better if you let it sit for a day or so to let everything mingle and establish relationships.

It's good - fresh-tasting and simple for a barbecue. Yea for summertime simplicity!