Restaurant Style Fire-Roasted Salsa
Enjoy fire roasted salsa with tortilla chips at home that are even better than your favorite restaurants with this restaurant-style salsa recipe. It's fresh, delicious, SUPER easy to make, and takes just 5 minutes!
Ingredients
- 2 14 oz cans fire roasted tomatoes (drain them if you prefer a thicker salsa)
- 1 Jalapeno (stem + seeds removed if you want less heat)
- Juice of 1 lime about 21/2 tablespoons
- 1 small onion cut into small chunks
- 1/2 bunch of cilantro about 1 cup loosely-packed fresh cilantro
- 1 4oz. can diced green chilies (drain them if you prefer a thicker salsa)
- 1 1/2 tablespoon garlic minced (if using fresh, use 3 cloves garlic)
- 1 teaspoon chili powder or less to taste
- 1 1/2 teaspoon cumin powder
- 1/2 teaspoon oregano
- 1 teaspoon sea salt you may need more, see note
- 1 tablespoon sugar
Instructions
- Pulse all the ingredients together in a food processor or blender until smooth or desired consistency is achieved. Season with additional salt if needed.
Notes
- Serve fire roasted salsa immediate or place in a sealed container and refrigerate for up to 3 days.
- Optional modifications: If you're worried about the salsa being too spicy cut the chili powder back to 1/2 teaspoon and only add 1/2 the jalapeno. If you your salsa even spicier add in the jalapeno with the seeds or you could even add in 2 jalapenos! For a 'smoky' flavor to the salsa, consider adding in 2 chipotle peppers with 1 tablespoon of adobo sauce.
- Salt: Make sure to taste the salt in the salsa with the chips you'll be serving before adding anymore in. I find that the salt content varies greatly from one chip company to the other.
