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Sunday, October 17, 2010

Produce Your Own Homemade Salsa By Following This Guide

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By Whitney Brown

Homemade salsa is a delicious addition to a meal. It's simple enough for even a novice cook to make as well. You can always buy salsa at your grocery store, but if you make your own you can tailor it to your taste preferences.

Making top-notch salsa isn't hard if you follow a few tips:

The most important thing to remember is to use the best ingredients you can find. Fresh, organic ingredients are best. Your salsa will only be as good as the ingredients you use. If you are only going to make mediocre salsa, why not stick with the jarred kind from the store?

The basis of your salsa will be fresh, ripe organic tomatoes. They should taste fresh and just picked. Pair this with an organic onion as well.

Organic peppers are your next addition. Choose your peppers based on the heat level you are going for. Fans of spicy foods will want to use habanero peppers.

Gauge the heat level for your salsa to who will be eating it. If it's going to be just you, make it as hot as you can stand if that is your thing. For salsa you'll be serving to others, though, you need to make sure it will be enjoyable for everyone.

If you have guests coming who cannot eat, or don't like, hot foods, and others who enjoy hot foods, you can always make two batches to suit each group. Making mild salsa and hot salsa both isn't that complex, often it involves making a large batch of mild salsa and then taking out some of it and adding peppers to this second portion.

It can be tempting to wing it, since salsa isn't all that complex to make. This is a rookie mistake. Use a recipe until you know what you are doing. If you get the proportions of vegetables wrong, it can waste a lot of expensive ingredients. There are plenty of salsa recipes listed online, you can find one for every taste.

If you make a mistake, you can sometimes counteract it but it adds expense. A too hot batch can be toned down with more tomato. A batch that tastes too strongly of tomato can be jazzed up with more peppers and onions. If you use a recipe though, it's more likely that you won't make mistakes you have to try to fix. - 24553

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