Homemade Garden Fresh Salsa Canning Recipe

I love salsa! I mean LOVE! And my homemade salsa is my favorite. Made with my homegrown tomatoes. You only need a few ingredients and it comes together easily.
Where this is a canning recipe, you don’t have to can it. But if you do, you need to know you can add different seasonings and various peppers and even change the number of peppers and onions. But for every 5 pounds of tomatoes, you’ll need to add 3/4 cups of an acid (apple cider vinegar, lemon juice or lime juice).
I hope you enjoy this recipe…. See you next week yall! Stay safe out there:)

Hey everybody welcome back to my wings of refuge i’m so excited today one of my absolute favorite things on earth is salsa and so i have 24 tomato plants planted most of which are romas i do have some beef steak and i also have some cherokee purples or blacks or whatever

And so um i have here my tomatoes and we’re gonna get ready with a batch today so these beautiful tomatoes you see here most of which are the romas but i also have here one of my beautiful cherokee blacks i think they’re blocks and so what i’m going to do now these

Are all washed and ready i’m going to cut them in half uh cut the tops off of them if there is a bad spot or anything some of them you know have the little cracks in the tops i’ll cut that part off i’m going to cut them in half

And i’m going to lay them on a baking sheet and we’re going to broil them in the oven just until the skins start to char just a little bit so we can take the skins off really easy to make a fire roasted salsa so our tomatoes are fresh out of the

Oven and they’re beautiful and lightly charred so i’ve let them cool for a few minutes and now all i’m going to do is go through and peel all of the skins off and we’ll be ready to get ah much started these come off really easy and i’m putting the

Tomato right inside the blender or the food processor hey okay so all of our tomatoes are blended up really well they’re chopped in the food processor and i have them ready i did weigh them and i have about six pounds here of tomatoes for five pounds of tomatoes

You would usually use anywhere from three to five onions so i have six pounds uh this really doesn’t matter it’s all to taste at this point so i’m going to use four onions so i’m just going to dice them up a little bit and i’m going

To put them in the food processor and let them blend really well and dump them into my tomatoes okay so next we want to add garlic i like a lot of garlic some people say three to five cloves of garlic it’s garlic to taste i like a lot of garlic don’t judge me

So next we’re going to add cilantro fresh beautiful cilantro again it’s to taste so some people don’t like the taste of cilantro some people absolutely love it i love it and so i’m going to add it to taste i’m going to add it to taste

I’m going to chop it up a little bit and i’m going to add it to the garlic in our food processor so our next ingredient is jalapenos different people will add different peppers you can add your favorite pepper if jalapenos are too spicy for you you can add poblanos or bell peppers or

Something else of that nature i like jalapenos if you’re a little afraid of the spice you can also take the seeds out but i’m going to cut these up dice them up and also put them in my food processor right now in the food processor i have my garlic and cilantro

I’m going to add the peppers the cilantro doesn’t blend really well unless you mix it with a few other things then it’ll blend really good it smells divine and so here i added the cilantro in with our jalapenos and also the garlic and so i’m going to now add them into our

Onions and tomatoes Now we’re going to give it a good stir and we want to be able to taste it before we consider it finished it’s already looking fantastic and it smells so good now it’s time to sample it and see what else needs to be added okay so i am ready now to

Turn up the heat and we’re going to heat this for about 30 minutes it’s really not too liquidy so i just want to make sure it’s really good and hot piping hot while my jars here are going to be boiling too because i want to give them at least 15 minutes boiling time

And that way they’ll be nice and sterilized and we’ll get them out when it’s really hot and do a proper water bath canning system so don’t you worry all those tomato skins that came off of our tomatoes we’re not going to let them go to waste i’m going to lay these skins out

Nice and thin layers on a dehydrator sheet and i’m going to dehydrate them on a low temperature in my dehydrator anywhere from six to 18 hours until they’re nice and crispy and then we’ll turn them into some beautiful tomato powder okay so we’ve got our peels and the dehydrator

We have our water bath canner is starting to really bubble in there so i’ve turned the heat on for our salsa and i’m going to bring it to a boil and i’m going to let it then simmer for about 15 to 20 minutes our salsa is starting to

Boil we’ll let it rumble a little more and then we’ll cut it back just a little bit to keep it at a light simmer for about 20 minutes we also have our lids here we’re just going to keep them on a medium heat just a very light little

Bubble that’s all in these we just want them to stay nice and hot and ready to go on our jars make sure it’s nice and piping hot we’ll be ready to pour it into our hot jars okay so it’s been time for our salsa it’s nice and hot our

Jars have been ready for some time now so i’m just going to get my jars out and while they’re nice and hot i’m going to fill them with a half inch headspace of our salsa and then we’ll put our flat lids on our rings finger tight put it back in the can

Remember to start your timer as soon as it’s coming to a hard boil we’re going to put the lid on and set our timer for 20 minutes okay so it’s been 20 minutes in our water bath canner i turned the heat off and i’m just going to take off this lid

And i’m going to let them cool down and just kind of rest here for about five minutes or so just till the water just kind of settles and then we’ll pull them out i’m just going to lift them up And then lift them out that gorgeous we’re gonna let them sit here and just completely cool before we do any messing with them we’ll just let those sit and cool we really don’t want to mess with them we’ll be listening for the jars to paint that beautiful noise canters always look

Forward to but i can tell some of the jars are already dented in already um and so we’ll sit there let them just rest for 24 hours before we mess with them at the end of 24 hours we’ll check the lids to make sure they’re all sealed if

They’re not sealed we’ll store them in the refrigerator and eat them sooner so you