I need a salsa recipe that works!!!

tiff

Alternatively for spiciness you could use Tabasco sauce instead of chilli powder or fresh chillies.

odds-n-sods

I dont 'see why you couldn't freeze chilis, but they then would have to be cooked as the water in them would make them go all soggy; no good for the salsa recipe, which is basically what I do; but it can be made with all fresh tomatoes. Won't be as 'saucy' more chunky.

PZH

Bean_Counter wrote: »

Can you freeze chiilis? Up here they come in bags of 5 or 6 and I never get through them all by the sell by date.

I usually just take them out of the plastic bag, wash them and make sure they are dry and then leave them in the fridge. They shrivel up a little bit as they dry out - but I use them for ages after the sell by date. Just make sure they are dry otherwise you might get mould growing on them. I also always scrape out the seeds when using them - so you can see what the chilli is like when you cut into it.

Stephen_Leak

Try this one ...

FRESH RED SALSA

Enough for a large bag of tortilla chips

INGREDIENTS

1 small pack of fresh coriander
1 clove of garlic
1 green chilli pepper
½ a red sweet pepper
½ an onion
2 tomatoes
1 tablespoon of olive oil
A pinch of salt

FRESH CHILLI PEPPER WARNING!

When you chop up fresh chilli peppers be careful and avoid getting juice on your hands. If you touch your eyes, mouth or other ‘sensitive areas’, even an hour after chopping them, they will smart and burn. So wash your hands or wear rubber gloves.

METHOD

Wash the coriander and shake dry. Peel the garlic.Cut the top off the chilli pepper, cut it in half and scrape out the seeds. Cut the top off the sweet pepper, remove the middle bit with the seeds and cut it in half. Use half and save the other half. Peel the onion and cut it in half. Use half and save the other half.

If you don’t have a food processor, chop the chilli pepper, coriander, garlic, sweet pepper and onion into tiny pieces. Chop the tomatoes into 5mm (¼ inch) pieces. Put all of the ingredients into a bowl and mix together.

If you have a food processor, coarsely chop the onion, sweet pepper and tomatoes. Put all of the ingredients into it and process for 1 minute.

Leave for 30 minutes for the flavours to mix.

Bean_Counter

Many thanks for all your help.

CountryWife_2

This is my fresh salsa recipe;
finely chop loads of tomatoes and loads of onions, add some crushed garlic, juice of half a lemon, some finely chopped chilli, a good swig of olive oil and loads of chopped parsley. season to taste and serve fresh, you wont be able to freeze it but it is so good you wont have any left. if you do it will keep in the fridge for a few days.

Lord_Lardington

I always freeze my fresh chillis (I buy them in biggish bags from muy local chinese supermarket).

I think the skins are ever so slightly tougher (I mean VERY slightly) after the've been frozen but otherwise they're brilliant.

I have read and heard on more than one occasion that chillis are meant to increase in intensity after freezing but I've never noticed this.

toffee65

I started out with having an empty jar of Doritos salsa dip and thought wonder if I could make this myself...so I had a bash.

1/2 chopped onion
(roughly) just under a quarter of red and green (or yellow) pepper chopped small.
small amount (pinch)of chopped chilli peppers (I have some frozen shopped ready)

fry this off until soft in olive oil.

Then add...

1 tsp demerara sugar
2 tsp balsamic vinegar
1/4 tsp chilli powder
tin of tomatoes...drain off and just use the tomatoes chopped up. I also added some fresh peeled tomatoes (4).

Simmer until everything is soft and some of the liquid is reduced so you have thick sauce. Pour into your empty Doritos dip jar and leave to cool then chill.

Served with Lidls cheesy tortilla chips.

It worked

Pink.

Hi toffee,

Thanks for your salsa recipe. I've added it to the main salsa recipe thread to keep the recipes together.

Pink

rosie383

I'm hoping someone can help me out here.
Yet again, yesterday I made my own salsa. Yet again, it wasn't nice.
I have followed many different recipes and this latest was Jamie Oliver's from his ministry of Food book.
It had garlic, spring onion, tomatoes, lime juice, olive oil, s&p, fresh coriander. I have tried with red onion in the past too.

It just tasted 'raw' iYKWIM! I would love if anyone has managed to make one like the wee tubs you can buy in the supermarket. Not like the gloopy stuff you get with Doritos for dipping.

Please don't just give me links from other sites unless you have tried them. I have wasted so many ingredients doing this, that I want 'tried and tested' only please.