Name: Jen's Fresh and Spicy Salsa
Prep time: 15 min
Total time: 15 min
Ingredients: 5 roma (plum) tomatoes, seeded and chopped; 10 green onions; 2 fresh jalapeno peppers, seeded; ¼ cup chopped fresh cilantro; 2 tablespoons fresh lime juice; 2 tablespoons hot pepper sauce; 1 teaspoon ground black pepper; 1 teaspoon garlic powder; 1 teaspoon salt

This recipe is bursting with flavor! It is fresh and spicy, and did I mention easy? This is the closest thing to restaurant style salsa you will find. The jalapenos and hot pepper sauce (e.g., Tabasco) add spice to the mix and the cilantro, lime juice, and green onions create freshness.

Jen's Fresh and Spicy Salsa

roma (plum) tomatoes,

green onions

jalapeno peppers, seeded

cilantro

lime juice

hot pepper sauce

black pepper

garlic powder

salt

In a blender or food processor, pulse the tomatoes, green onions, jalapeno peppers, and cilantro to desired consistency. Transfer to a bowl, and mix in the lime juice, hot pepper sauce, black pepper, garlic powder, and salt.


I love this salsa! I have made this 4 times already. I took it to a work potluck this week and got many requests for the recipe. As others mentioned it can be get a little watery. After I seed the tomatoes and chop them in my food processor I let them sit in a strainer while I do the rest of the work. This helps make it less watery. Thanks!

Whoa Nelly! As a person who is used to spicy and always orders the hottest number of spice a restaurant offers - I nearly burnt my mouth off with this stuff! I only added one jalapeno pepper (with seeds) so I didn't think it would be that hot. I don't think this recipe needs the extra hot sauce! I also agree with some of the other reviews that it was salty and had too much cilantro. I love cilantro but it made the salsa really green so it was a bit overpowering. I don't think it needs any salt or garlic powder especially if you are using chips with salt already on them. I will give it 3 stars because I was able to tone down the heat with more tomato and lime juice and was good because it was fresh. But I will have to change up the recipe if I was to make it again.

This is one of the best salsa recipes I've tried.  If you follow the recipe as is it's spicy.  If you use one jalapeno and one Tbsp. hot sauce it's medium.  If you omit the jalapeno and hot sauce it's mild.  Delicious!

This is fabulous salsa. I like a medium consistency salsa so I pureed half the veggies and diced the other half so I had some chunks still in it. The half of the tomatoes I diced I also drained so it wouldn't be too runny. Next time I will use a serrano or habanero pepper because even with 3 jalapenos it wasn't spicy enough for my tastes. This salsa was still fabulous even though next time I would only salt and pepper to taste as I found what the recipe called for might be a little on the heavy side.

This recipe is amazing. Some advice: If you have the time pulse the tomatoes and chop other ingredients by hand. Also let the tomatoes sit in fridge for an hour before adding other ingredients and then drain the water off of the top (they're tomatoes...they will get watery) then add remaining ingredients. If your concerned about heat (the hotter the better for me) add jalapenos and hot sauce until desired spiciness. I love this recipe as is. Thanks J-Shep!

I did like this recipe but I made some changes.  I don't like the skin on the tomatoes so I blanched them to remove the skin.  I used 2 very large tomatoes & 1/2 red onion, 1 Tbsp of lime juice, 2 cloves of garlic & 1 tsp of cumin.  We also heated ours after blending it on the stove to bring some more flavor out.  

I give this a 5 stars rating. It is exceptionally delicious. I did use chopped garlic instead of powder. The salsa was very juicy, which could have been corrected by draining the tomatoes for a bit. I personally enjoyed it the way it was. My batch made 3 cups. What is great about this is that there are only 210 calories for the entire 3 cups. Thanks for a great recipe.

This should be called Jen's Fresh HOT and Spicy Salsa. My Husband loved it but we both love HOT Spicy Salsa. I do agree with a few of the other reviews I would drain the tomatoes before mixing in the other ingredients. I also used a couple of garlic cloves (chopped) instead of powder. Lots of flavor - excellent recipe.

This is pretty tastey! I used the recipe as a basic guideline using probably about 10 or so smaller/medium romas a small white onion about 1 1 /2 peppers just a bit of dried cilantro lemon juice....and I pretty much pureed it in the blender so it's smooth. It's really good.

Jen's Fresh and Spicy Salsa

Prep Time: 15 minutes

Total: 15 minutes

Servings: 16

Cost: $1.29 /serving

Author : JennyJenn

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