could you all help me with a really good salsa recipe i have tomatoes running out of my ears. they came all at 1 time thanks bill

I just wing it if I am in charge of making it. Usually it is a team effort. My family wants to see what I am sneaking in the salsa. I like color and variety. Try several types and colors of tomatoes, add garlic, onions, sweet and hot peppers, canned tangerines with the juice, mango (optional), cilantro, some sea salt and taste it. If you like it saucier, use paste tomatoes and maybe put a few in the blender first. A mix of heat and sweet. Better if you chill it and let the flavors merge for a few hours.

What kind of tomatoes to you have?

Do you have peppers?


IMO.. you need tomatoes, onions, peppers.. From what i am learning.... you need a lot o peppers to make a good salsa.. I like Anaheims..

I made something tonight that was mostly tomatoes.. I had Roma tomates which at least produced a thicker salsa.. I only had 3 Anaheims and 3-4 Jalepenos.. Then I added 2 Onions.. The salsa was tomatoey.. but not enough onions and peppers..

A recipe I read said to do a 5 part tomato to a 3 part pepper to a 2 part onion proportion... That may be what it takes to get a wonderful salsa... I have the tomateos, but the weight proportion of peppers was puny.. The Onion part was about right.. Read as many recipes as you can on making salsa.. But like with most things.. It is a matter of personal taste!

I never thought about it in terms of proportion, but I think I like it 50/50 tomato and onion, and almost as much cilantro.

I don't add bell pepper, just a jalapeño or two, lots of garlic, salt and lime juice.

If you want to keep it a while, you might want to look for cooked salsa recipes versus salsa cruda (raw) so you can can it.

I had a hard time getting a recipe that the family could all agree they liked. This is the one I have settled on. You can tweak it to your own taste.

http://tbihome.org/cgi-bin/recipe.pl?read=474