Fire-Roasted Garlic Salsa

11 ingredients
10 steps

Ingredients

  • 2 1/2 pounds vine-ripened tomatoes
  • 1 bulb Roasted Garlic (page 170)
  • Pinch plus 2 teaspoons kosher salt
  • 5 tablespoons finely diced red onion
  • 2 tablespoons minced seeded jalapeno pepper
  • 2 tablespoons fresh lime juice
  • 3 tablespoons minced fresh cilantro
  • 1 tablespoon honey
  • Black pepper
  • Tabasco sauce
  • Tortilla chips

Directions

  1. 1
    Fire up the grill, a gas burner, or even the broiler.
  2. 2
    Set the tomatoes directly over or under the heat source and cook, turning often, til the skins just blacken.
  3. 3
    Peel, cut out the stems, and then cut them in half around their equators.
  4. 4
    Take each half tomato in your fist and give it a squeeze over a bowl to get rid of the seeds and juice.
  5. 5
    Dice the flesh and put it in a clean bowl.
  6. 6
    Squeeze the garlic cloves out of their skins, add a pinch of salt, and mash to a paste.
  7. 7
    Mix into the tomatoes along with the remaining 2 teaspoons salt and the onions, jalapenos, lime juice, cilantro, honey, pepper, and Tabasco.
  8. 8
    Puree half the salsa in the work bowl of a food processor.
  9. 9
    Stir the pureed and chunky salsas together.
  10. 10
    Heap the salsa in a bowl and serve with tortilla chips.

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