I posted my first salsa here recently, a raw red salsa. This one used white onion, jalapeno, garlic, Roma tomato, cilantro, and lime (all fresh) along with some canned chipotle sauce and Rotel tomato, and salt.
I roasted all of the vegetables and garlic in the oven with some olive oil before blending, and it came out a lot more smooth. It tasted quite sweet.
The pic is after everyone had dug in, hence the mess. I think that perhaps I should have left either the jalapeno or onion raw, to tone down a bit of the sweetness and give it a somewhat less smooth texture. But it did taste good, especially fory first Cooked Salsa.
by T-L-Rossi