Roasted Salsa is an easy, flavorful, smoky and fresh-tasting salsa just fabulous on all kinds of dishes.
This incredibly simple recipe is from Chef Philip Feder. Roasting the veggies in a skillet on the stove till they blacken makes a huge difference in the flavor – gives this salsa a wonderful smoky flavor. I found the flavor gets better the next day. The flavors blend and the smokiness develops. I’ll be making this over and over!
Roasted Salsa
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An easy, smoky, very flavorful salsa ideal with chips or with many different dishes.
Author: Chef Philip Feder
Recipe type: Salsa
Cuisine: Southwestern
Serves: 3 cups
Ingredients
- 4-6 Roma tomatoes
- 2-3 jalapeno or serrano peppers
- 2-3 cloves of garlic
- ½ large white onion
- salt to taste
Instructions
- Cut onion in large chunks.
- In a large skillet over high heat, roast the vegetables until they blacken, rotating so you get them blackened on all sides.
- Remove from heat and remove stem and seeds from jalapenos (you can leave seeds in to increase heat). Deglaze the skillet with a little water and pour into molcajete or food processor. A hand-cranked food chopper works great for this.
- Place all vegetables in the molcajete or food processor and smash until you get the consistency of salsa you want. If using a food processor, gently pulse and stir several times. With a food processor it's easy to overdo it and end up with a pureed mixture.
- Pour into a bowl, cover and chill in fridge for a few hours to let flavors blend.
- Serve with tortilla chips or tacos, burritos, on fish or ... use your imagination!
Roasted Salsa from Chef Philip Feder is an easy, smoky, flavorful fresh salsa ideal on all kinds of dishes.
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