Salsa... so HOT!

[vash]

The best salsa is the homemade kind. Its not difficult:

1. Hot peppers (if you like it that way)
2. Onion
3. Tomato
4. Cilantro.
5. Garlic

On a pan, I brown the tomato's, garlic, peppers and onion (no oil, just brown them). Once they are hot, throw them into the blender, uncut. Blend until chunky, adding a little water to get good consistancy. Chopped cilantro at the end for the final topping. Some will add a bit of lemon or lime to mix, but I add a little bit of salt -- depending on the chips. For quantity, you generally want more tomato than peppers, otherwise it turns green with the spice of the chili (mine tends to be more green).

vash

 

[ShotgunSteven]

Originally posted by: vash
The best salsa is the homemade kind. Its not difficult:

1. Hot peppers (if you like it that way)
2. Onion
3. Tomato
4. Cilantro.
5. Garlic

On a pan, I brown the tomato's, garlic, peppers and onion (no oil, just brown them). Once they are hot, throw them into the blender, uncut. Blend until chunky, adding a little water to get good consistancy. Chopped cilantro at the end for the final topping. Some will add a bit of lemon or lime to mix, but I add a little bit of salt -- depending on the chips. For quantity, you generally want more tomato than peppers, otherwise it turns green with the spice of the chili (mine tends to be more green).

vash

Do you just throw in equal quantities of each, except those that you say to add more of specifically?

 

[Antisocial Virge]

Originally posted by: Spac3d
The salsa at Chipotle... ridiculously hot. It isn't so hot if you eat once you get your buritto, but if you let it sit for a while, it solidifies into this pepper looking stuff and becomes fire on food🙁

It makes you breathe, burp, and sh!t fire for 3 days😱

I like things hot but man...your right. That stuff is brutal. My friend gets hot salsa and then shakes on the green tobasco on every bite. I have no idea how he can handle it. I usually get hot and mild mixed together but even them it can be a extreme.

 

[MaxDepth]

Originally posted by: vash
The best salsa is the homemade kind. Its not difficult:

1. Hot peppers (if you like it that way)
2. Onion
3. Tomato
4. Cilantro.
5. Garlic

On a pan, I brown the tomato's, garlic, peppers and onion (no oil, just brown them). Once they are hot, throw them into the blender, uncut. Blend until chunky, adding a little water to get good consistancy. Chopped cilantro at the end for the final topping. Some will add a bit of lemon or lime to mix, but I add a little bit of salt -- depending on the chips. For quantity, you generally want more tomato than peppers, otherwise it turns green with the spice of the chili (mine tends to be more green).

vash

AIIAIIAIIAIAIIEEIEEIEIEIA!!!!! Please! No cilantro! That stuff is like eating soap or something! Bleech.
And in the morning I can feel that stuff coming out of my pores. nasty, nasty, nasty.
:disgust:

 

[pyonir]

me no likey salsa....at all.

 

[BooGiMaN]

try homemade salsa but add a bit of tangy mango...its great

 

[CraigRT]

Originally posted by: pyonir
me no likey salsa....at all.

dislike Mexican food?
spicey food in general?

 

[GtPrOjEcTX]

i just grab a bunch of packets at taco bell whenever I go, they last a while.

 

[iamme]

not sure if this is just a michigan brand, but our local store have "Jack's Salsa". It's very, very fresh tasting. Plenty of big chunks of veggies and good amounts of cilantro. I think I'll have some now 🙂

 

[ElFenix]

Originally posted by: luv2chill

Originally posted by: spacelord
while visiting in Houston..
Papasitos (or whatever their Mexican restaurant is called..) had some damn good Salsa.

Papasitos is friggin awesome. Their fajitas are the best I have ever had, bar none. I have to eat there every time I go to Houston.

[jerry]People like to say "salsa"[/jerry]

l2c

lupe tortilla's has the best fajitas ever. papas doesn't even come close. and the best salsa ever.

the papas brothers have several kinds of restaurants that are based in houston. but they have locations at least around texas, if not outside. the best of those is probably papadeaux, which is sorta cajun.

 

[ShotgunSteven]

Originally posted by: Antisocial-Virge

Originally posted by: Spac3d
The salsa at Chipotle... ridiculously hot. It isn't so hot if you eat once you get your buritto, but if you let it sit for a while, it solidifies into this pepper looking stuff and becomes fire on food🙁

It makes you breathe, burp, and sh!t fire for 3 days😱

I like things hot but man...your right. That stuff is brutal. My friend gets hot salsa and then shakes on the green tobasco on every bite. I have no idea how he can handle it. I usually get hot and mild mixed together but even them it can be a extreme.

Tobasco is not even really considered to be a hot sauce, in hot sauce circles. Habanero is where the heat is. 😛~

 

[dxkj]

The salsa at Chipotle... ridiculously hot. It isn't so hot if you eat once you get your buritto, but if you let it sit for a while, it solidifies into this pepper looking stuff and becomes fire on food🙁

bah, the hot stuff is great =) and the green sauce you put on it just cools it down in comparison


but seriously, I used to make salsa when i was a kid, my family had a garden and i would grow habanero's and the like, I was the only one who ate my salsa though =)

 

[BooGiMaN]

my uncle wont eat unless he has salsa on the table..

 

[dxkj]

my fiance's father dehydrates jalapenos and grinds them up into a little jar that he brings to the table, I think its a great idea, its really concentrated that way and adds some really good flavor and spice

I eat at the cafeteria at college so i just heap fresh jalapeno and serrano slices on my plate breakfast lunch and dinner

 

[ElFenix]

oh, and the best store bought salsa i've had is the green tomatillo stuff from arriba.

 

[pyonir]

Originally posted by: Yield

Originally posted by: pyonir
me no likey salsa....at all.

dislike Mexican food?
spicey food in general?

i like mexican. don't like spicy food. I think i have an ulcer/acid reflux something so i get heartburn from EVERYTHING. spicy food is not my friend.

 

[vash]

Do you just throw in equal quantities of each, except those that you say to add more of specifically?

Not quite. Usually, for one tomato, I will be in two peppers. For a batch, its generally 2-3 large tomato's, 4-5 peppers,4-5 cloves of garlic and one onion. Its difficult for me to recall how much I add, since I tend to change the mixture, depending on the quality of tomato's, peppers, etc (onions are usually consistant). It takes a little time to get to a feel for the mix, but until then, chip it up! I've gone through a few batches of salsa until I found the mix I like. The real key is the consistancy of it all. If you blend it for too long, its all soupy. If you don't blend it long enough, its very chunky.

For the cilantro hater, MaxDepth, I only add it to the top of the bowl of salsa, its never mixed in. Also, its very little cilanto, not much at all.

vash

 

[gregshin]

ok...the hottest salsa i ever had was in Texas...some mexican place of the I-10 (i'm from socal btw) anyways....they served us some green salsa with a bunch of seeds in it. Lets just say i needed a glass of milk to finish the chips...they shiet was so hot not even my parents could eat it. My family is korean we eat SPICY stuff everyday all day such as kim chee.

 

[Pilsnerpete]

I see some ppl giving away their houzehold recipes!!! that's good stuff...

My favorite is salsa @ just about any taco stand in Mexico! a decent alternative here is the Safeway Seelect chipotle stuff...mmmm!



--->>Pete

 

[Cat13]

I always make my own. I use fresh roma tomato, onion, celantro, garlic, green chiles, corn and kick it up with some jalapeno and chili peppers. Just made a batch last night for a cookout today. mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm 🙂