Salsa 2nd time around

So I made my attempt to make salsa again. Only this time I didn't have the tomatillos to make salsa verde. They just weren't ready yet. The one tomatillo plant I had that produced the early harvest has died off so I am waiting for the other plants to start producing.

So I ventured into the territory of red hearty roasted salsas. Below you will see my ingredients. I did have to buy a few things mainly because my garden didn't readily have these items available. This includes; the onion, four roma tomatoes, and a can of corn. Everything else you see on the counter below was grown in my back yard.

Those ingredients include; fresno peppers, anaheim peppers, cayenne peppers, serrano peppers, jalapeno peppers, a few tomatillos, a few chili peppers, cherry tomatoes, and garlic.

I chopped all the peppers and tomatoes in half and gutted most of the seeds and insides and put them on a baking sheet with foil.

Chopped half of the onion for the baking sheet and saved the other half to add later raw as well as 2 out of the 4 roma tomatoes. Added the corn to the baking sheet to also roast in oven.

After 10-15 mins in the broiler they came out looking like this. Now I let them cool for a while and then added them to the blender along with the raw onion and tomatoes mentioned earlier.

Now I cannot take full credit for the final product. To be honest it wasn't right. Only after my friend Rachel tinkered with it did it come out perfect. I was missing a few ingredients like cilantro, lime juice and some more tomatoes and the juices. Also she added some salt and sugar. See my salsa was very thick and very natural. It didn't really have anything added which is what it needed. It wasn't sweet enough.. I'm glad to say though that it tastes amazing. And really spicy. You can really taste all those jalapenos and serranos.

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