What would a proper Cinco de Mayo celebration be without some chips and salsa?
If you have never made your own salsa before because you thought it was too much work, too much chopping, today’s recipe is for you.
It doesn’t get any quicker or easier than this. O.K., except maybe buying it at the store.
We love to go out for Mexican food and one of the reasons is the chips and salsa. I love restaurant style salsa. It’s not too chunky but just a little chunky.
Over a year ago I found this recipe over at Pioneer Woman and I’ve been making it ever since. It makes a large batch so it is great for a party or having lots of leftovers which we love at our house. One of my favorite things for lunch is chips and salsa.
After you roughly chop up the onion, jalapeno pepper and cilantro, it all gets thrown in your food processor and pulsed together. So easy. Just make sure you have a big food processor!
Then all you have to do is dip away!
Happy Cinco de Mayo!
Quick and Easy Salsa
Ingredients
- 1 can 28 Ounce Whole Tomatoes With Juice
- 2 cans 10 Ounce Rotel (diced Tomatoes And Green Chilies) Rotel is the brand. Some stores carry a generic version.
- ¼ Chopped Onion
- 1 clove Garlic Minced
- 1 whole Jalapeno Quartered And Sliced Thin
- ¼ tsp Sugar
- ¼ tsp Salt
- ¼ tsp Ground Cumin
- ½ C Cilantro
- ½ whole Lime Juice
Instructions
- Rough cut your garlic, onion and jalapeno.
- Put the tomatoes, Rotel tomatoes, jalapeno, garlic, onion, salt, sugar, cumin, lime juice and cilantro into a food processor. You may also use a blender.
- Pulse until the salsa becomes the consistency, texture you like. I did about 12 -14 pulses. Pour into a bowl.
- Place bowl in refrigerator for at least an hour to allow flavors to blend together. Enjoy!
Recipe from Pioneer Woman
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Is it possible to can this recipe? I’m new to canning and salsa-making, and I’m looking for any advice I can get. 🙂
This recipe is not designed to be canned.
I just whipped up this quick, easy and delicious salsa!!! It is it so good!
Thanks for sharing.
Gilda, So glad you enjoyed it!
Thanks for linking to Whimsy Wednesday! I featured your salsa in my roundup post this week! You can see the post here…
http://www.ohmy-creative.com/recipe/festive-mexican-fiesta-recipes/
Hope to see you again tonight! Susan
Fantastic pictures! This is an easy salsa and the texture looks great. I like salsas that aren’t too chunky.
Thanks for sharing!
Leigh Anne, that looks really tasty – and easy to do, too!
I love this recipe, the only difference I use is I cut up the onion into smaller pieces and add it after pulsing the other ingredients. I LOVE this recipe though.
Mmmm…just made a batch of this for our supper. It totally rocks! I can see us enjoying it quite often. Thanks for sharing the recipe.
That looks awesome and so easy! Thanks for posting! Perfect for Cinco de Mayo tonight!
This is one of our favorites too. If you can find fire roasted tomatoes they make it taste that much better!
what a coincidence!! just sat down with my taco salad lunch, with a generous amount of PWs salsa on top, and started reading this post! it really is a great salsa, and DOES make a bunch. I love having a container of it in the fridge, we eat it with almost everything!!
love your site!
Love the pics…my friends rave over this salsa. Have you had the Juanitas chips? They ate our family’s chip of choice. Have a great day!
Juanita’s chips are the best! That actually looks like the chips she is using in the photos.
Juanitas are the best and the only chips I use!