Hey all! Been obsessed with hot sauce, growing peppers, making salsa for a long time now. I live in AZ and have a lot of good salsas out there and the thing that makes me come back is how “ snackable” they are. IE, if I can fill myself up on chips and salsa before the dinner comes – then the salsa is good! So after a lot of books, a lot of recipes, a lot of my own trial and error. I have finally made something I’m personally proud of and hope will give others some ideas, as I did a little more than throw the standard ingredients into a blender and serve it. I would absolutely love some feed back if anyone takes the time to make this as it’s perfect for my taste it may not be for others and I’d love to know where the faults lie!!
Recipe
1 28oz can marzano tomatoes
2 medium fire roasted jalapeños
9 fire roasted garlic cloves
(Jalapeños and garlic wrapped in aluminum foil with holes poked all over and tossed in the fire over oak coals until cooked)
2.5 tsp salt
2.5 tsp MSG
1 cup premade red chili sauce
(4oz Guajillo, 1 Pasila, 1 ancho, 7 arbol, garlic, salt white onion) simmer 15-20 then blend and strain so you end up with an enchilada sauce consistency.
blend all ingredients until smooth
Once smooth add:
1/2-1 cup chopped green onion, make sure to have some of the white part.
1 heirloom tomato chopped about 1 cup maybe 1.5 cups
1/2 cup cilantro
Pulse blend until slightly chunky
Taste and adjust as needed.
I really think this works as an amazing base, from here you could make spicy as hell, it’s really mild as my elderly grandmother was in town so I had to hold back on the jalapeños and if it was for me I would have added Serranos and tsp of ghost powder.
Please feel free to ask questions or berate this recipe but I’d stand by this one it really is something you can just devour a bowl of and want more, and that’s been something I have struggled to make at home!
by metalmatt35