I am putting in a row in my garden devoted entirely to ALL THINGS SALSA!
I’ve never made salsa. Never even looked at a salsa recipe. I just like salsa.
Please supply what your favorite salsa recipe or one’s that look interesting to you.
I have at least two months before the harvest starts showing up and have to make a decision.
Mucho Gracias!
I guess I’ve never actually used a recipe to make salsa. I just throw stuff in a dish until it tastes right.
In no general order, what I’d grow is:
Tomatoes (duh)
Some sort of hot pepper. Long green ones like Hatch are nice. Somehow, though, I’m guessing Hatch chiles are gonna be hard to grow in Michigan. Then again, I see them in our farmer’s market here, so it can’t be impossible!
Cilantro. Another hard one to grow. Mine always grows about 3 leaves then bolts.
Limes. If you grow these, I am coming down to take pictures and bow down to you.
Garlic. I bet there’s a chance this will grow!
Sweet onion of some sort - red or vidalia or whatever. Or a plain ol’ white onion. Or green onions, in a pinch. I know those grow here.
Maybe you are a better gardener than me and can get more of this stuff to grow. I’m a miserably gardener, especially up here in a shady yard in the frozen north. Hmmm… maybe it’s not me…
Cut everything up into small dice, putting more tomatoes that the other ingredients. Hmmm ratio wise, I’d do:
~ 2 cups tomatoes
Chiles: anywhere from a small handful to about 3/4 cup, depending on how hot they are.
1/2 cup finely diced onion
2-4-6 garlic cloves, depending on how much you like garlic
1/2 cup cilantro
Juice from 1/2-1 lime, to taste
salt & pepper
maybe some cumin
Mix 'er all up. Eat. Yum.
Keep in mind fresh salsa tastes different than store-bought, if for no other reason than most of the stuff in jars is made from cooked tomatoes. You can more easily duplicate that flavor by using canned tomatoes instead of fresh.
Garlic is really easy to grow and smells wonderful when it is still in the ground on a hot summer day. (Red onions, too.)