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James' Salsa

A fresh salsa with tomatoes, fresh chile peppers, cilantro and lime.
Prep Time 20 minutes
Total Time 20 minutes
Course Appetizer, Savory
Cuisine Mexican American
Servings 3 cups

Equipment

  • 1 food processor
  • 1 knife and cutting board

Ingredients
  

  • 1/4 cup onion (about half of a small onion)
  • 1 or 2 cloves garlic
  • 1/2 Habanero chile
  • 1 chilpotle chile
  • 1/4 cup cilantro
  • 2 TBLS lime juice (James uses key lime)
  • 3 TBLS cider vinegar
  • 1 28 oz can diced tomatoes, or 4 to 5 fresh tomatoes

Instructions
 

  • Chop fine: the onion, garlic, chiles and cilantro in the food processor (3 or 4 pulses) or by hand with your knife.
  • Add the lime juice, cider vinegar and the tomatoes. Pulse to get the consistency you like for salsa.

Notes

You can add salt.
You can use tomatillos instead of tomatoes, or a little of both.
Suggestions for chiles you can use--make your own combination:
Habanero  be careful, it's really hot!  1/2 chile
Jalapeno 1 chile
Serrano small but powerful 1/2 chile
Chipotle, comes in a can (smoked jalapeno) 1-2 chiles
Keyword chiles, Cilantro, garlic, lime, onion, tomatoes