Need a good recipe for homemade salsa...

dice tomato, onion, garlic, and your peppers

What would be good ratios to start with?

Fast and easy version….put a quarter of a medium onion, roughly chopped, in a food processor. Add a can of Rotel, a clove of garlic, a few sprigs of cilantro, and a good squeeze of a lime. Pulse a few times.

Pioneer Woman is not usually my go to source, but she has a darned good salsa recipe. My wife won an office competition using it.

Restaurant Style Salsa
Pioneer Woman
Ingredients

1 can (28 Ounce) Whole Tomatoes With Juice
2 cans (10 Ounce) Rotel (diced Tomatoes And Green Chilies)
1/4 cup Chopped Onion
1 clove Garlic, Minced
1 whole Jalapeno, Quartered And Sliced Thin
1/4 teaspoon Sugar
1/4 teaspoon Salt
1/4 teaspoon Ground Cumin
1/2 cup Cilantro (more To Taste!)
1/2 whole Lime Juice

Preparation

Note: this is a very large batch. Recommend using a 12-cup food processor, or you can process the ingredients in batches and then mix everything together in a large mixing bowl.

Combine whole tomatoes, Rotel, onion, jalapeno, garlic, sugar, salt, cumin, lime juice, and cilantro in a blender or food processor. Pulse until you get the salsa to the consistency you'd like---I do about 10 to 15 pulses. Test seasonings with a tortilla chip and adjust as needed.

Refrigerate salsa for at least an hour. Serve with tortilla chips or cheese nachos.

Smoky Chiptole Salsa


5 Roma tomatoes
Half a white onion
2 jalapeños (seeded or not depending on desired heat level)
Half to whole bunch of cilantro
1-2 chipotle peppers along with tbs of adobo sauce
1-2 tbs of lime juice
1/2 to 1 tsp of cumin
1/2 to 1 tsp of sugar
1-2 tsp of minced garlic
Salt to taste

Cut romas in half and place on pan along with the half onion and jalapeños. Rub with a little olive oil and roast in oven until skins in peppers are slightly charred. Once done, allow to cool for a bit and then place them along with all other ingredients in a blender and blend to desired consistency. Done and you will have the best salsa you have ever eaten.

The amount of cilantro, cumin, lemon juice and salt you will just have to play around with until you find the amounts that you prefer. The original recipe I was taught only used half a bunch of cilantro but I use more as I really like cilantro. Original recipe also called for a Serrano pepper along with the two jalapeño and none were seeded. I found that too hot for my liking so I deleted the Serrano and remove the seeds from one of the two jalapeños. Original also didn’t have the cumin or sugar but I like the smoky flavor the cumin adds and the sugar helps balance it all out.

This recipe is from the HornFans recipe collection, which may have been the inspiration for our own F&DB collection.

Barnburners Lively Salsa

This recipe has been worshipped by friends and family on a near-universal basis. The most important thing of all here is that all the ingredients (other than the canned tomatoes) must be fresh, and I mean FRESH!!

4 one-pound cans of diced tomatoes
1 "bunch" of green onions finely chopped
1 cucumber, peeled, seeded, and diced
2 diced bell peppers (or other sweet peppers)
1 "bunch" of cilantro, finely chopped (and I mean FINELY chopped, no long stems remaining AT ALL, nobody wants a stem in their mouth).
1 garlic clove, minced.
The juice of 2 fresh limes or lemons.
Hot sauce to taste (optional).

Chop it up. Mix it up, and let it stand in the fridge for awhile. Then serve. Do not cook this recipe. Make it when you expect it to be eaten within 48-72 hours.

MOST IMPORTANT -- Use FRESH cilantro. That's critical. Dried cilantro will NOT do. Buy fresh cilantro and take the time to chop it up and chop it up fine so that it dominates every bite of the salsa. I cannot begin to tell you how important this is. If you don't have the time to prepare it with fresh cilantro then don't even start to make the recipe at all. FRESH cilantro really is the make-or-break ingredient.

Also, do not doubt the value of the fresh, diced cucumber. I know it's not a traditional salsa ingredient. Use it once and you'll understand why I put it in. The fresh cucumber adds extra liveliness to an already lively recipe. Once you try it you'll know what I mean. This recipe is all about lively, fresh flavor.

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Chuy’s salsa recipe

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This shite is good, but could this person have picked a worse picture to go along with the recipe?

My SIL has a really simple one that tastes great. Restaurant like.

- 28oz can tomatoes, diced is fine
- Couple jalapeños depending on how spicy they are
- bunch of cilantro to taste
- 2 or 3 squeezed limes depending on juicy they are
- garlic powder, cumin (not much) & black pepper and salt

Dump it all in a food processor and give it a whirl until however smooth you like it. Add more spices or lime if necessary.