Homemade Salsa

I found this recipe on a blog a few weeks ago and decided to give it a whirl tonight. George

LOVES all kinds of Mexican food, salsa included! It was actually relatively simple to make. Here

is the recipe:

Quick and Easy Salsa

(from yourhomebasedmom.com)

1 can (28 Ounce) Whole Tomatoes With Juice
2 cans (10 Ounce) Rotel (diced Tomatoes And Green Chilies) Rotel is the brand. Some stores carry a generic version.
¼ Chopped Onion
1 clove Garlic, Minced
1 whole Jalapeno, Quartered And Sliced Thin
¼ tsp Sugar
¼ tsp Salt
¼ tsp Ground Cumin
½ C Cilantro
½ whole Lime Juice

Rough cut your garlic, onion and jalapeno.

Put the tomatoes, Rotel tomatoes, jalapeno, garlic, onion, salt, sugar, cumin, lime juice and cilantro into a food processor. You may also use a blender. Puree until the salsa becomes the consistency, texture you like. I did about 12 -14 pulses. Pour into a bowl.

Place bowl in refrigerator for at least an hour to allow flavors to blend together. Enjoy!

A few tips...Sprouts (grocery store where I was picking things up) didn't have Rotel tomatoes so instead I just got regular diced tomatoes (in addition to the whole tomatoes that the recipe calls for) and added a small can of green chilies. Also, the Jalapenos obviously make it pretty spicy. If you're like me and can't handle the spice, you might want to do 1/2 of the Jalapeno...George likes it really spicy so he didn't mind at all! We both love the flavor of cilantro so I doubled the recommended amount. Finally, the LIME JUICE really pulls it all together (again, I doubled the recommended lime juice amount)...at first I forgot the lime and it was kind of boring...added the lime juice and VOILA!

The finished product! Serve with your favorite tortilla chips, tortillas, or Mexican dish. I served it with chicken tacos with homemade flour tortillas!

This recipes results in a TON of salsa....seriously the blender was more than 3/4 full of salsa!

ENJOY! :)