Our family loves salsa (yes, even our 2 and 3-year-olds). The kids are also crazy about tomatoes. But somehow once the tomatoes ripen and go in the crisper drawer, I very often forget about them. So, while we have a pretty good cooked Salsa Recipe that we like, I’ve been looking for a great, simple, raw salsa recipe that I can throw together quickly when I discover tomatoes in the back of that crisper drawer. I think I finally found a great one on Pinterest. It takes about 5 minutes to make and I almost always have all the ingredients on-hand. I used fresh tomatoes, of course, since that was the whole reason I was looking for the recipe, but the original uses canned. I think using canned tomatoes will be great in the Winter when I’m not getting yummy tomatoes in my CSA box.
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Simple Garden Salsa
Adapted from Quick and Easy Salsa Recipe.
Ingredients
- 4 medium tomatoes, quartered
Easy Garden Salsa, blended
- 7 ounce can diced green chiles
- 1/2 medium red onion, roughly chopped
- 2 cloves garlic, peeled and smashed
- 1 jalapeno, seeded or not (determines spiciness)
- 1 teaspoon honey (or maple syrup or agave for vegan)
- 1 teaspoon taco seasoning
- small to medium size handful of cilantro, washed
- juice of 1 lime
Directions
Place all ingredients in food processor or blender. Process for about 30 seconds and serve. Yield: about 3 cups Recipe Source: VeggieConverter.com
Easy Garden Salsa, canned in 6 half-pint jars (can be frozen)
Ingredients
Instructions
Place all ingredients in food processor or blender. Process for about 30 seconds and serve.
http://veggieconverter.com/2012/05/simple-garden-salsa-vegan-whole-food.html
The Results
Holy cow, delicious! So incredibly easy, too! Yum. I highly recommend this recipe.
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Kristi is a former newspaper reporter and editor who is now a vegetarian mom, married to a meat-eating dad and parenting two undecided kids. Join the family on our journey creating whole foods recipes to suit our blended-eater lifestyle. 
This salsa sounds delicious with a great balance of flavours. I love how easy it is too.
Tomatoes actually keep much better on the counter. They get mealy in the fridge. I love making fresh salsa. I do use rotel cannoned tomatoes with lime and cilantro to make salsa in the off seasons.
That's so true. I keep mine on the counter or windowsill, if not quite ripe, until i get scared that they're going to go bad, then they go in the crisper and get lost until I make salsa!