Monday, January 3, 2011

My mom's "Toy" salsa

I actually named it "Toy Salsa" after the first time she made it because it was not super spicy and it was kind of like a "Toy" compared to "Real" salsa. The truth is that this is an incredibly tasty salsa.

Ingredients:

1 fat can of tomatoes (chopped, whole, whatever, but NOT sauce, juice, paste or flavored)
1 Bunch Cilantro-chop the stems off before unbanding it, (there will be some stemmy stuff left, that’s OK, your new machine will pulverize that $hit!
1/3 cup frozen hot diced green chiles (at your local Wally World)***
2 cloves of garlic, or many shakes of garlic powder-NOT garlic salt***
1 teaspoon of salt***
1 teaspoon sugar or shot of honey
1 Chunk of onion (white or yellow), about the size of a miniature golf ball (never seen one? me either, get creative)

Run everything but the tomatoes through the food processor, it will smell super good! Add the tomatoes and zap it again, if you like it chunkier, start with whole tomatoes and use the "pulse" function to get it the texture you like.