06/02/08

Homemade Salsa

Ingredients:

1 large onion
3 cloves garlic
Lime juice
One 8 oz. can tomato sauce
 ¼ cup cilantro
Salt
Various hot peppers

Put the onion and garlic in a food processor and chop very fine.  Put in the juice of 2 limes.  Let sit for 30 minutes.  Add peppers, cilantro and tomato sauce and blend in the food processor.

What kind and how many peppers:

Super-wuss mild
3 cayennes with seeds removed

Mild
3 cayennes with seeds left in.

Medium
3 cayennes with seeds and 2 jalapenos with seeds removed

Pretty spicy
3 cayennes and 2 jalapenos, all with seeds

Hot
Same as “pretty spicy” but add 2 habaneras without seeds

Flame-thrower (my personal favorite)
Same as “hot” but leave seeds in habaneras.

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