Skip to main content

Making fresh salsa from garden ingredients

I don't claim to make the best salsa (that's something my co-workers claim) but I do like the fresh flavors from making it from my garden ingredients.

I want to show you my recipe for fresh salsa.  It starts with all fresh ingredients from the garden that you can source.  Peppers, onions, garlic, cilantro, tomatillo, lime, and salt.

 
I like to chop them all up in half or smaller and lay on a baking sheet with parchment paper and I place in broiler for 10 mins or until blackened. 

 
 Once the peppers, onion, tomatillo and garlic has been roasted, the next step is to blend in the food processor.  After all the roasted veggies are blended, place in pot on stove low heat.  Slow and low the longer it roasts on heat the better.  But you need to constantly sitr. 

Last step after it's had some time to cool I add cilantro and lime juice. I like to also add green onions in this stage as well. I use the food processor to blend cilantro and onion into small pieces. But you don't want to cook these ingredients on heat (will ruin the flavor).
 

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Topping your early pepper plants

So I know you are going to think why would I want to cut the tops off my young pepper plant? Won't it die? Won't it hurt the plant?  Take this example above of this young Shishito pepper plant. Now you can see with my snips I am about to cut just the top section of the leaves. Below the cut area I still have three levels of leaves. I don't recommend cutting your plant if it only has one set of leaves. Only perform topping when there are more than one set, preferably multiple leave layers. The cut will force growth back to the lower levels making your plant more stable with more lower branches as well produce more fruit. One stalk will be unstable when fruiting and limit production but the topping will add more layers and depth to your plant. This topping exercise can be performed more than once to help make a more dense plant. Some will even go so far as to remove flowers to help the plant grow larger or stronger before producing peppers.
Post a Comment
Read more

Pest Control. My methods of extermination.(Gophers mainly)

So if you've seen some of my past posts you know that I've had encounters with possums and raccoons in my backyard garden. I've trapped 3 raccoons and eliminated 2 possums but gophers had been a problem in the past I wasn't really willing to tackle. At least until recently. The gophers in my backyard alley were ruining plants and soil everywhere. I'd had enough. So after some serious research I chose my weapon.  A Victor Black Box Gopher trap.  The amazon reviews were great and it was under $15. Now as you see the trap here it's set and ready to go. You would just point that end (the open end) towards an open tunnel.  It works like a reverse mouse trap, instead of pinning a rodent down it pulls them up and pins them to the roof of the trap.  The trigger is that coat hanger looking metal piece in the middle.  It packs quite a punch when triggered. Now you can't just look for an open hole and stick it in front of it. I watched YouTube for about an ho...
3 comments
Read more

Tomatillo stages

Just a few shots of my juvenile tomatillo plants.  Above is what the tiny tomatillo starts out like. It will quickly grow and expand out. It's good to have some kind of netting, fencing or string because the stalks of the tomatillos tend to weaken with the rising weight of ripening tomatillos. I used some clothesline to help guide my young plant towards my fence in hopes that I can weave branches for structure. I think the smaller plant may be a purple tomatillo plant.  It would be a welcomed color change from all the greens and yellows.
Post a Comment
Read more