Recipe: Best Ever Salsa

This quick and easy salsa goes great with tortilla chips.

Note: If you want to use this salsa in fajitas, you'll need to modify the recipe a little to thicken it. I don't recommend using cornstarch/cornflour. Instead, drain off some the juice from the tomatoes at the beginning.

Ingredients

Here's a guide to the quantities, but they're only a guide - taste as you go along and adjust to your liking.

  • 1 can/carton of chopped tomatoes
  • half an onion, roughly chopped
  • half a pepper, rougly chopped
  • 1/2 tsp crushed chilli flakes
  • tablespoon of sugar
  • generous pinch of salt
  • tablespoon of vinegar
  • juice and zest of half a lime
  • two cloves of garlic
  • small bunch of coriander leaf, chopped (10g say)

Method

  1. Pour tomatoes into a sauce pan and bring to the boil.
  2. Add onion, pepper, chilli flakes and vinegar. Reduce to a gentle simmer.
  3. Leave for a few mins, then grate in the lime zest and garlic. Take off the heat.
  4. Add salt and sugar to taste.
  5. Add coriander and whizz it all in a food processor.
  6. Serve chilled.

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