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Homemade Mexican Restaurant Style Salsa

Homemade Mexican Restaurant Style Salsa

Shelly
A quick and easy homemade Mexican restaurant style salsa made in the food processor.
Prep Time 5 mins
Cook Time 10 mins
Total Time 15 mins
Course Appetizer
Cuisine Mexican
Servings 10

Ingredients
  

  • 3 jalapenos
  • 3-4 garlic cloves
  • 1 - 15 ounce can tomato sauce
  • half a white onion - roughly chopped
  • 1/2 cup cilantro
  • 2 roma tomatoes - roughly chopped
  • salt

Instructions
 

  • Roast jalapenos in oven under broiler.
  • Place roasted jalapenos in ziplock bag and zip shut to steam for 10 minutes.
  • Using gloves, remove skins from jalapenos under running water. Remove the seeds too. If you like really hot salsa, leave the seeds in one jalapeno.
  • Transfer the jalapenos to the food processor and add garlic cloves. Pulse the jalapenos, scrape sides with a spatula, and pulse again.
  • Add the can of tomato sauce to the jalapenos. Hit pulse, scrape down the sides, and pulse again.
  • Transfer the jalapeno mixture to a bowl.
  • Add roughly chopped onion, tomatoes and cilantro to the food processor. Pulse, scrape down the sides and then pulse again.
  • Transfer onion mixture to the bowl with jalapeno mixture and stir to combine.
  • Taste for salt.