Salsa Verde - Green Tomatillo Hot Sauce Recipe
May 20th, 2009
Here’s my recipe for Salsa Verde or Green Hot Sauce. It’s great with tortilla chips and on chicken tacos and with black bean–refried or regular. And it’s fairly easy to make. Also, if you live in an area where tomatillos are plentiful and reasonably priced, this is cheaper than store bought salsa and way better because it’s a good recipe and it’s fresh.
Ingredients:
8-12 Tomatillos
3 cloves garlic
1/4 cup white onions (sweet onions if possible)
Juice of 2 limes
2 teaspoons sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup cilantro de-stemmed
3 jalapenos
I use a blender to mix the ingredients, you can use a food processor, but I prefer the consistency the blender gets.
Remove the husks and wash the tomatillos. Cut the tomatillos in half. Put the tomatillos cut side down on tinfoil in the broiler. Also put the jalapenos on the tinfoil. It will take about 10 minutes for the tomatillos to get browned/cooked from the broiler. Turn the jalapenos when one side gets cooked. Let the tomatillos cool on the tinfoil. After the tomatillos have cooled there will probably be some juice left from the cooking, don’t include that, it will make the salsa too runny.
Put all ingredients in blender then put the tomatillo and jalapeno in blender. Blend to a smooth consistency. You can adjust the lime, salt, sugar and jalapenos to suit your taste. I usually put two jalapenos in at first and then taste, some jalapenos are very spicy so it’s good to gradually bring the heat up. Of course you can use more jalapenos and if you want serrano peppers would work as well.
Serve chilled. This makes about 2 cups of salsa.
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