28/02/2024
Mexican Salsas
The queen of Mexican cuisine is the salsa in any shape or flavor; We all know the king is the Corn. This is all you need to know if you want to make salsa!
You only need 3 ingredients:
Any pepper, any type of onion, any type of tomato. The amount of peppers is up to the level of heat you want.
-For extra flavor, you can add garlic, cilantro, or celery.
-For extra acidity, add citrus like lime, lemon, orange, grapefruit, apple cider, or white vinegar; adding a little vinegar will make your salsa last longer.
-for creaminess, add avocado or oil like olive, avocado, seeds, or vegetable, even crema or cheese, and nuts or seeds like sesame and pumpkin.
-Use any way of cooking, like boil, steam, roast, broil, grill, or fry in the stove, grill, oven, or microwave. Up to you!
-Chop, grind, or blend it with a blender, food processor, or the traditional molcajete.
-vegetables can be cooked or even raw and fresh. There are many ways and not an exact order to do it. You can blend everything fresh and cook it in a pot, or even blend the cooked vegetables and still fry it later for an extra layer of flavor and consistency.
-Add spices like cumin, coriander seeds, black pepper, achiote, allspice, or cinnamon.
-Herbs like oregano, bay leaves, spearmint, epazote, hibiscus, basil, cilantro, or thyme.
-Vegetables like celery, cucumber, radish, nopales (cactus), xoconostle (sour prickly pear), squash, corn, beans, jicama, mushrooms, potatoes, or zucchini.
-Fruits like Mango, orange, watermelon, prickly pear, berries, pineapple, grapes, apple, coconut, or papaya.
-Add more flavor or color with non-spicy dried peppers like ancho, guajillo, mulato, pasilla, or cascabel.
-Chiles secos (dried peppers) like Arbol, japones, chipotle, morita, piquin/pequin, chiltepin, puya
-Instead of water or adding extra, you can use beer, tequila, wine, mezcal, tea, stock, broth, or coffee.
-Canned tomato, canned peppers, and canned onion may save you if you don’t have fresh veggies, and it won’t taste bad; it would be like canned salsa.