I don’t know about you, but I LOVE homemade salsa! There are SOOO MANY ways to make it too! I personally start buy growing most of the veggies in my garden. However, you can purchase them from anywhere and it will still be so much better than the store bought salsa.
First, I typically grow a variety of veggies; tomatoes, bell peppers, jalapeno peppers, basil, tomatillos, green onions and cilantro, along with many other plants, flowers, and succulents. Then, when they are ripe, myself and my family pick them. Next, we wash the veggies and then either eat them fresh or use them in meals.
If you want fresh veggies from the garden, but don’t have a green thumb, you can always buy them at the farmer’s market throughout the summer. This is a great way to obtain those yummy veggies!
Salsa is truly the most versatile food there is! I would say that I truly have made a different version each time I make it. I just take the basic recipe for homemade salsa and add whatever veggies (and sometimes fruit also) that we have on hand. Whatever sounds good at the time!
Basic Salsa Recipe
Ingredients
3 Tomatoes
1 Sweet Yellow Onion
2 Tablespoons finely chopped Cilantro
Dash of Celtic Sea Salt or Himalayan Pink Salt
Dash of Freshly Ground Black Pepper
****You can double, triple, or even quadruple this recipe to make however little or much salsa that you want.
Variations
Like I said before, there are so many variations of homemade salsa that you can make that you simply need to add whatever ingredients sound good to you.
The above photo has the Basic Salsa Recipe plus Tomatillos and Green Bell Peppers added.
***You can add:
*Red Onions
*Green Onions
*Fresh Basil Leaves
*Jalapenos
*Tomatillos
*Bell Peppers
(Green, Yellow, Orange, or Red)
*Snacking Peppers
*Pineapples
*Mangoes
*Habanero Peppers
*Lemon or Lime Juice
*YL Vitality Essential Oils
(Black Pepper, Cilantro, Lemon, Lime, Basil, Orange, Tangerine)
Click HERE to learn how to use Essential Oils in food.
https://www.youngliving.com/us/en?enrollerid=1786033
Canning Extra Salsa
After you have made lots of salsa, and eaten your fill of it, what do you do with the rest of it?? Well, you could share it with your friends and family!
OR you could CAN it so that you have enough fresh salsa to last you through the winter! Just don’t do what I did one year. Haha… I learned the hard way that it does not work to freeze salsa. When I thawed it out, it literally just tasted like water.
SOOOO….Canning it is!!
Canning small batches is actually pretty simple. I’ll post instructions on this in the future.
Click below to check out my post on cooking with Essential Oils.
What is your favorite ingredient in salsa? I would love to hear your variations! Try it and comment below!