I never got to make salsa last summer so it was high on my list of things to put up this year. Sometimes a run will last us two years.
I can’t remember who shared their recipe with me, but I jotted it down on the back of an envelope and have been using it ever since.
My Favorite Salsa
- 10 cups of chopped tomatoes (I peel mine first)
- 3 cups diced onion
- 1 3/4 cup diced sweet pepper
- 5 diced jalapeño peppers (you can remove the seeds and ribs or leave them for more heat)
- 7 cloves of garlic minced
- 2 1/2 teaspoons of cumin
- 2 1/2 teaspoons black pepper
- 2 1/2 teaspoons salt
- 1/3 cup chopped cilantro
- 1 1/4 cups apple cider vinegar
- 16 ounces of tomato sauce
- 1/3 cup sugar
Mix all ingredients together and cook for 15 minutes. Pour into canning jars, add lids and rings, and process in a water bath canner for 15 minutes.
The salsa can be left chunky or you can use an immersion blender for a smoother texture.
Over the years I’ve made other salsa recipes and enjoyed them, but once I tried this one it immediately became my favorite.
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Tipper
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Hi Tipper!
I love your videos.
Unfortunately I do not have any tomatoes growing here. Could I use canned tomatoes, whole peeled ones instead?
Yes that will work 🙂
Thank you I’m going to try this recipe for salsa.
Hi Tipper,
I’m sorry for asking an unrelated question on this post but I wasn’t sure how else to message you. I know Katie is taking a break from her Etsy shop but I was wondering if she has ever made a ring with a keepsake someone has sent her. I just inherited my great great grandmothers pearl that came off of a necklace. I thought it would be nice to have it set in a ring and immediately thought of Katie. It would be extra special to have it made by her once she’s back to working of course. I know you all are busy with all yall do and just wanted to ask if it’s something she would take on sometime.
No worries 🙂 Katie said she had never worked with pearl before and would be afraid to try it with your precious heirloom 🙂 Thank you!
Miss Tipper, I’d love that salsa recipe and hope to try it sometime. Wondering if I could add the juice of a lime too, or is the cider vinegar, which I love, going to make it to acidic? When I make salsa, just for one batch I’ve always added lime juice, not any vinegar. If I haven’t got a lime I use lemon juice. So glad y’all had a nice vacation. What a beautiful place too. Love and prayers to everyone, Pressley’s and all the Acorn families.
I think that would work 🙂
Thank you sweet friend. Always appreciate you so much.
I have enough tomatoes that I was planning to make another batch of salsa this week. Everyone here loves it and I always give plenty of jars to give away too. My recipe is nearly the same as yours and I make a few batches along with canning tomatoes every summer or at least until my tomatoes run out. I encourage anyone who has never made any to give it a try. It is delicious! Prayers to all who are in need today.
You sound like your mom….”I jotted it down on the back of an envelope”. Now all you need to do is write something else completely unrelated on it and put it in a drawer for Chitter and Chatter to find years from now. How precious and priceless!
Your recipe is mostly just like mine, though I use lemon juice instead of vinegar. Mostly I use tommy toes for salsa. I have to make plenty–my four adult children, their spouses and most of the 8 grandbabies love it too. I make it very, very spicy for my husband. Mild for most of the others. I do not cook it at all. Just water bath them for about 15-20 minutes.
I can’t handle cilantro and cumin (or coriander for that matter). Cilantro and coriander taste like soap. Cumin has no distinct taste to me but smells like sweaty feet.
Distaste for cilantro and coriander is caused by the presence of a gene called OR6A2. Nobody has yet determined a link to any gene the causes the sweaty feet syndrome.
For what it’s worth I can’t handle the taste of lime either. I’m just a freak I guess!
I have never cared for salsa, but my daughter & granddaughter love it. I love Queso as a dip for tortillas & could literally drink the stuff because that is how much I love it. I don’t make it & I rarely go to a Mexican restaurant, so I don’t get the pleasure of eating it very often at all. Plus, I am allergic to cheese and all milk products. Boomer! Thoughts & prayers to all the acorns who are in need of prayer.
how many jars of salsa did you get out of that batch Tipper? my cousin Kathy sent me some, just a little jelly jar full, she don’t know how much sodium is in it, salt, I’ve been trying to figure,
About 10 pints 🙂
that’s great that wasn’t that much salt for 10 pints, thank you and God bless you
God bless everybody in the name of Jesus, thank you for praying for me,
That salsa sounds like the kind I used to get at a long-gone Mexican restaurant in Arizona. It was so good with corn tortilla chips. We’ve been having some real toad-stranglers the last few afternoons here in Colorado. It’s unusual for this time of year, but we don’t complain about any kind of moisture in the high desert! I live in a residential neighborhood that has been here since the 1940s, with houses built through the 50s and early 60s. We’re less than a mile from a busy state highway near the foothills, surrounded by homes and businesses, a few miles from downtown and the freeway. We’ve got at least 2 bears that run the alleys looking for trash to eat, the one that goes down my alley is very large, bobcats, and lots of rabbits and deer everywhere. One lady said she saw a mountain lion, but most people think it was just a big bobcat. We’ve had a young moose running through the neighborhood once, that caused a lot of excitement!
Hello Tipper! I’m still waiting on my tomatoes to ripen. Our weather has been terrible this summer, cold and rain, so everything in the garden is very slow to ripen. The only salsa I’ve had was from a the grocery store and I didn’t like it at all. That changed when a friend gave me her salsa recipe, which has tart apples in it. It is delicious and when the tomatoes are ripe I’ll be making several batches for us and the kids.
The soup Barbara mentioned sounds interesting, I’ll have to give it a try! Have a wonderful day everyone!
I complain a lot about a lack of rain in my neck of the woods and have said it is like being the hole in a doughnut. With all of the storms around this month I have had only about 1 inch of rain until Friday night, it came a “gully washer” -over 3 inches in about 1 hour. It did not cause any problems in my rural area except for washing trash out of the roadside ditches. It would have caused a flood if my area was an asphalt/ cement jungle.
I use to make and can my Salsa every summer when we had a big tomato harvest. My recipe is about the same as yours. I didn’t have much of a garden at all this year, so I haven’t canned anything. We’ve had enough tomatoes to eat on sandwiches or in salads, but that’s it for the tomatoes. Enjoy your salsa this winter, because I know it’s going to be delicious!
Hi Tipper and Acorns. I’ll be trying a 1/2 or 1/4 batch. I will use celery leaves instead of the cilantro. It sounds very easy. I love Salsa Soup.
2 1/2 cups Salsa
½ teaspoon garlic powder
½ teaspoon cilantro (optional)
2 14 oz cans of black beans, rinsed
1 14 oz can of corn, drained
4 cups broth (I sometimes use 4 chicken bullion cubes and 4 cups of water)
2 cups shredded cooked chicken or cooked ground beef
1 cup heavy cream (optional)
Dump everything except the cream into a pot over medium nigh heat. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat to med low and simmer 10 minutes. Stir in the cream at the end.
You can add extra diced tomatoes, sliced black olives, A small can of green chilies, finely diced cooked onion, drained and diced canned peaches, more broth for extra servings, canned chili beans.
Serve with shredded cheese, Sour cream and crumbled corn chips or corn bread.
This sounds delicious and healthy! Thanks for the recipe. Have a super day everyone!
Do you strain your salsa at all? I feel like every time I make it, it is too watery.
I don’t 🙂
🙁 my tomatoes (except for Tommy Toes) have petered out before I got to make any salsa. I’m quite bummed. Last year, a dear country neighbor, gave me many Walmart bags of Big Mama’s that they were inundated with at the end of the season. I’m hoping that might happen again this year. I’m getting ready to head off to get my labwork done for the chemo treatment tomorrow. Any prayers would be greatly appreciated. The last treatment (28 days ago) was pretty rough, due to a fellow patient with a funky smell that triggered severe nausea. Prayers for Papaw Tony, Corie, Norman, Little B♡, Barb, Ed, and Nancy and everyone else here who is in need. Happy Monday ya’all!! It’s an absolutely beautiful morning here in west central IL!!
I will keep praying!
thank you Kim God bless you very much
We made 3 runs of fig preserves Saturday and I had some on toast this AM. Most of our garden is gone. The poblano peppers are still going strong. They were sold as bell peppers but there was a switch somewhere.
Randy will be happy to learn that a Bob White Quail visited me Saturday. This was the first one I’ve seen or heard in probably 60 years. It sat on our deck railing and called out for at least 5 five minutes. Maybe they’re still around.
Jackie, I can’t remember the last time I heard the call of a Bob White Quail. To again hear a Wild quail call on my property would be a thrill-better than a Christmas present. I have seen a rabbit and a half grown young rabbit in my yard this year and saw 6 deer last night less than a quarter of a mile from my driveway.
Randy, I’ve had several Bob White families each year since I’ve lived here(33 yrs next month) I love hearing them and just adore watching the parents take the hatchlings on walks in the cover of brush down by the creek.
I made several jars of Salsa this year. I made Cucumber Salsa and Mango Pineapple. My intention was to give them for Christmas gifts. Once I gave my family some for tasting, they said it was the best they had ever eaten. Michael my nieces husband who is from California said all his family members eats a lot of Mexican foods and Salsa was top on their list, but this Salsa was the best. It made me happy to know that it turned out good because the person I wanted to give it to is so kind to our disabled daughter and us and I just wanted to give them something special. Your recipe sounds really good and next time I make it, I would like to try it. Like you, I don’t care for hot things, but will take the seeds out. God bless everyone.
I’d have loved to have had your salsa recipe about a month ago when I made about 20 pints. It’s my first time and it came out watery, but can still be used in soups, chili and with some paste to thicken it will be dandy salsa. I loved smelling everything cooking together as the salsa came together. I will use your recipe next year -hopefully -Lord willing if I am alive and able to garden tomatoes. I finally got my hot tub and it’s been a real blessing. My stiff joints and pain are relieved and it just makes me feel better. Since I’m in the country on a mountain I put it on the front porch. It’s easy to access too. It was in the high 50’s this morning and blue ridge “smoke” is rolling off the ground. There’s a bear I’ve been seeing and I believe he comes from the mountain near the river. At night, it makes me nervous with him prowling about. The neighbor lady said he seems to be a “good” bear. I say good is a term used for humans as I don’t think animals know good or bad only the moment. They live in the moment. I’m trying to cut down on bear interaction. When you see claws on one as long as human fingers, you realize one swipe is a deal breaker! God bless everybody today!
Been looking for a good salsa recipe; thank you! I have tomatoes coming out my ears right now, praise God. Considering the drought we had through June, this harvest is a miracle. Quick question, Tipper: I don’t have an immersion blender; would a regular blender work as well?
Yes that would work just fine 🙂
As is said of Beatrice Foods, “It’s a world of good things” in that salsa. Could call it Summer in a Jar. And besides all that, canned tomatoes are just so bright and cheerful looking it brightens a winter day just to look at them. I made a fun find in our garden the other day. In moving around ssome fallen over volunteer marigolds I discovered a thriving parsley plant! Well – as Popeye said – “Blow me down!” Never expected such a thing in late August. Taught me two things; (1) parsley can take more shade than I thought, and (2) when shade grown it gets ‘leggy’, long and tall. So, should I plant in, or transplant parsley to, shade for summer?
PS: I recall you posting about planting garlic chives; if not too late you might want to head off its reseeding itself as it gets everywhere!
Interesting! I’ve never heard of cooked salsa. How do you use it?
We eat it with tortilla chips and on tacos 🙂