Salsa means salty in translation. This is a traditional component of Mexican cuisine, which always includes hot chili peppers. Served with sauce for meat and fish dishes.
Making salsa sauce is an art that takes skill and time. However, if you prepare all the necessary ingredients in advance, cooking will take no more than 5-10 minutes.
What is needed to make the sauce
To prepare the sauce, you will need the following ingredients: a bunch of fresh cilantro, 1 purple onion, chili pepper, 30 ml of olive oil, 3 grams of ground black pepper, 4 juicy ripe tomatoes, 1 fresh lemon, 3 grams of table salt, 2 cloves of garlic.
Depending on your taste preferences, you can use other spices such as celery, mint, parsley. Cooked sauce is never served immediately. He needs to stand for a while. If you don't need to serve the sauce soon, it's best to refrigerate it for 24 hours.
How to make salsa
Rinse peppers and tomatoes in running water and pat dry with paper towels. Bitter peppers are cut and cleaned of seeds and partitions. The tomatoes are scalded with boiling water and the thick skin is carefully removed from them. Peel the onion.
Peppers, onions and tomatoes are cut into pieces and sent to bake in an oven heated to 200 ° C. You need to bake the vegetables for about 15 minutes, until they are browned.
Once the vegetables are ready, they are taken out of the cabinet and allowed to cool. Then the baked vegetables need to be grated on a coarse grater or chopped in a vegetable cutter. It is undesirable to bring tomatoes and peppers to the state of puree, small pieces should be felt in the sauce.
Often housewives save time by using tomato paste for making the sauce. Of course, in this case, homemade salsa is prepared very quickly. However, the real Mexican salsa sauce is strikingly different from this dish in taste and aroma.
Juice is squeezed out of lemon and mixed with olive oil, ground black pepper, minced garlic and salt. The ingredients are thoroughly mixed and transferred to a container with cooked tomato paste. Finely chopped cilantro is added to the finished salsa sauce.
After stirring the sauce, it is placed in the refrigerator for at least 1 hour. During this time, the taste of vegetables and spices will appear most fully. In the classic version, a sweet and savory ingredient must be present in the salsa sauce. For Russia, the combination of pepper and tomato has become a familiar combination. In Mexico, the most popular combination is onion and feijoa.
