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Offline EhJayArr

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Your favorite salsa recipe?
« on: Jun 15, 2012, 05:38:12 PM »
Making a big batch of salsa (10 people) for a friend's BBQ tomorrow, and I'd like to spend some time tonight trying a couple different recipes. I love spicy food... like REALLY spicy food, so I intend on making a spicy batch and a mild batch.

My favorite is fresco style with no base (just proportions of dices veggies with a little bit of salt), but I've had tomato base salsas that are great--they're better for chip coating as some people prefer, rather than scooping out piles of peppers as I prefer.

My standard recipe: 1 yellow onion, 4 medium-sized tomatoes, 6 jalapenos, 6 seranos, 6 habaneros, whole bushel of cilantro, half clove of garlic all finely diced with conservative amounts of salt and malt vinegar added to taste.

Any and all ideas are welcome!
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Re: Your favorite salsa recipe?
« Reply #1 on: Jun 16, 2012, 02:42:31 PM »
lime juice and zest are essential to any standard tomato salsa.
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Re: Your favorite salsa recipe?
« Reply #2 on: Jun 16, 2012, 03:14:49 PM »
Quote from: Karyn on Jun 16, 2012, 02:42:31 PM
lime juice and zest are essential to any standard tomato salsa.

Shit, that reminds me, I meant to buy lemons today.
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Re: Your favorite salsa recipe?
« Reply #3 on: Jun 17, 2012, 03:28:30 PM »
Quote from: Karyn on Jun 16, 2012, 02:42:31 PM
lime juice and zest are essential to any standard tomato salsa.

Yeah, ended up sqeezing in 2 limes and a splash of red wine vinegar. It came out pretty good! Too much serano and too little habanero flavor... but good.
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Re: Your favorite salsa recipe?
« Reply #4 on: Jun 18, 2012, 09:16:51 PM »
EhJayArr, mine is approximately your recipe, but replace 4 of the habaneros with poblanos and the vinegar with lime juice. If I want it hotter, I add ground cayenne. I like the heat of habaneros, but I don't really like their flavor much. They're mostly useful for keeping rabbits out of the strawberry patch. Also all ingredients except the salt and lime must come out of my garden. Well...no onions or habaneros this year, but I just moved house, what do you want from me? Actually, I'm about out of home grown cayenne too, and I didn't plant any of that this year either. Well crap, now you've pointed out all the inadequacies of my new garden. Are you happy now?

I think perhaps I'm projecting a bit...  ;D
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Re: Your favorite salsa recipe?
« Reply #5 on: Jun 18, 2012, 09:23:21 PM »
Try 1/2 Yellow and 1/2 Red Onion for contrast in flavor. 

This may sound strange, but add a little Horseradish as well.   
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Re: Your favorite salsa recipe?
« Reply #6 on: Jun 18, 2012, 09:25:32 PM »
Ah man, I WISH I could make it out of garden-fresh veggies. Someday. I actually love the flavor of habaneros, but poblanos are great too; maybe I'll try poblano instead of serrano for the next batch.

David, I could see the half yellow half red making a nice difference... and I'm not a fan of horseradish, but with all those other flavors in there that could totally work.
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Re: Your favorite salsa recipe?
« Reply #7 on: Jun 19, 2012, 08:54:22 AM »
Quote from: EhJayArr on Jun 18, 2012, 09:25:32 PM
Ah man, I WISH I could make it out of garden-fresh veggies. Someday. I actually love the flavor of habaneros, but poblanos are great too; maybe I'll try poblano instead of serrano for the next batch.

David, I could see the half yellow half red making a nice difference... and I'm not a fan of horseradish, but with all those other flavors in there that could totally work.

It's an enhancer. 
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Re: Your favorite salsa recipe?
« Reply #8 on: Jun 19, 2012, 10:32:35 AM »
A bit of roasted garlic can add a real nice dynamic to salsa.

I usually use a few tomatillos as well.
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