It’s salsa day, and we’re making my delicious restaurant-style salsa! This is a blended, somewhat smooth salsa that is not chunky. We’ll be making a big batch from 100% fresh ingredients, and canning it all in pint-sized jars with the hot water bath canner. See below for the full recipe.
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Equipment I used in this video:
Hot water bath canner
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Canning tool set
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TUO Santoku Knife
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Click here for the full printable recipe:
Here’s the basic recipe:
18-20 Roma tomatoes
3 large Spanish onions
3 red bell peppers
2 poblano peppers
5 jalapeno peppers (or more, to your taste)
4-5 cloves garlic
1/2 cup fresh cilantro (coarsely chopped)
1 cup white vinegar
2 tablespoons salt
Roughly chop all fresh ingredients and combine in large stock pot. Heat to boiling, then reduce to simmer. When everything is soft, add salt and vinegar and blend with immersion blender. Then simmer on low heat, stirring regularly, for 60-90 minutes (or until salsa reaches your desired consistency).
This recipe makes about 7 pints of salsa. Sterilize jars and lids. Add 1/8 teaspoon citric acid to each pint jar. Fill jars with salsa, de-bubble, and wipe jar rims. Put lids and rings on jar, and place into hot water bath canner. Fill canner with enough water to cover the jars completely. Heat water to boiling. At this point, process 15 minutes. After processing, remove jars from canner and place on counter. Leave undisturbed for a day. Refrigerate jars after opening.
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00:00 – Intro
00:51 – Blanching Tomatoes
04:39 – Chopping Vegetables
10:30 – Simmering & Blending
15:09 – Canning Preparation
20:11 – Salsa Canning
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25 Comments
Quick question, what would be the best alternative if we don’t have an immersion blender? I find it difficult to get a chunky consistency sometimes with my food processor unfortunately.
Awesome video btw! Very straight foward and simple, and great general tips demonstrating the canning process 👍
Is citric acid necessary? I can never find it at my local grocer.
Im new to canning, thank you for the great video, is this recipe from Ball or someplace where it was tested for safety, im reading that that is important
What a great recipe and tutorial! I just made my first batch today and will be making more as soon as I get more veggies. Thank you so much.
If you have a failed jar you can open it, wipe the rim down again and put it back in the water to seal it.
It worries me that you missed putting citric acid into one of your jars.
Looks Great1
Thanks for sharing
You missed citric acid in one of the jars.
Try halving the tomatoes and broiling them for a few minutes…. heck of a lot faster and easier to remove the skin from the tomatoes. I just coat with a small amount of olive oil and a few minutes later they are ready to peel.
Shared this with my wife who is in the process of preserving our garden spoils. After canning a batch, the kids went crazy over it!
I tried this recipe last night. Best salsa recipe yet! I will be making more. Thank you.
Don't forget to adjust processing time for your elevation.
For sterilization purposes I wash the 🫙’s with warm soapy water with some bleach when I bring them home from the store & i wipe my jar mouths with a paper towel with vinegar on it after I put products in it so it will clean them so they will seal properly.
I’m gonna try it. Thank you!
You didn't have to cut them to Blanch them.
Everything you did was excellent until you added the cilantro!
Curious why you don’t want the tomato skins? Lots of flavour there
Great video, I’m buying a pressure canner soon
Just made this salsa, however instead of jalapeños and poblanos I did 10 fresh Carolina reapers. If you’re a fan of spicy, try it this way and you’ll love it!
By any chance do you know how long this will stay fresh in the refrigerator after opening? Thanks for sharing!
Bell peppers in salsa 😂 good one
Nutritionists advise replacing ketchup and salad dressings with salsa on your sandwiches and salads
This looks AMAZING!!! I have tomatoes in my garden, so I’m going to fire roast them then make salsa 😊
I can't believe how fast you cut those peppers up!!!
You missed one of the jars with citric acid and it wasn't the one you didn’t fill.