An energizing summertime variation on salsa is made with watermelon, crushed pineapple, sweet onion, cilantro, orange juice, and Tabasco®. Every time you bring this, folks will beg you for copies of the recipe. With tortilla chips on the side.
| Prep Time: | 5 mins |
| Total Time: | 5 mins |
| Servings: | 12 |
| Yield: | 1 1/2 cups |
Ingredients
- 3 tablespoons chopped fresh chives
- ½ bunch fresh cilantro
- 2 cloves garlic, chopped
- 2 (14 ounce) cans stewed tomatoes
- 2 serrano chilis, seeded and chopped
- salt and pepper to taste
Instructions
- Combine chives, cilantro, garlic, tomatoes, peppers, salt and pepper to taste in an electric blender. Pulse until the salsa is to your desired consistency.
Reviews
Excellent!
My whole family likes it . We live in Texas lots of salsa around here . This is great just follow the recipe as is first . Tune it later.
I’m impressed with this recipe, as I’ve tried others with stewed tomatoes and the taste was off. But I decided to give this recipe a try and I’m so glad I did. I only modified it by using some lemon salt and it’s been the best I’ve tried and my family liked it too! Thank you for sharing.
ok I was cutting veggies for this and accidently added cucumber and snap peas ( I was making an Asian salad too) well when company came I kept chopping but added this to the salsa. When I ran thru the blender its the best salsa I have ever eaten.!!
Delicious! Thanks for the great recipe I followed it exactly. Very easy and very tasty!
I really like this salsa! I made 1/2 recipe in my small pull & chop chopper but used one whole serrano pepper with seeds. I must’ve got the mother of all peppers because it was good ( I tested it with about 1/8 teaspoon) but inedible because it was SO HOT. So I made another batch with no peppers and mixed it with the first. Now it is still hot, real hot, but really tasty. I ate some with chips but it would be really excellent on Mexican food. Will definitely make a lot more of this, adding peppers GRADUALLY. 🙂
I’ve made this recipe several times and experiment with the great tips I read in the reviews. It’s super easy and tastes great! And it’s easy to adjust the heat based on your tolerance.
we loved this! it was a bit too blended for us (not chunky enough) so next time I’ll blend everything with just 1 can of tomatoes and then add the other can (maybe with a super-quick pulse of the blender first). also, i found the cilantro got caught by the blender quicker if i put that in first.
I love this salsa, although I do put a tad more garlic and a tad more Serrano peppers including the seeds. It’s exactly what I want my Salsa to taste like and it’s so simple, just like the recipe says.
Too watery and sweet. I added some lime juice and fresh tomato. Pulse lightly to leave a bit of chunky texture. It still needs some tweaking.
If you use the petite diced tomatoes, you don’t even need the blender. We have a brand near us call Dei Fratelli and they almost taste like fresh! Wonderful and a fav at my house!
Loved this. Easy. Reminds me exactly of the salsa of a popular Mexican food restaurant in town. I wouldn’t change a thing.
I made this as written, and thought it was great, but not perfect. I added some water, some tomato paste from a tube, and some sugar. The extra water, tomato paste, and sugar were because the serranos I had turned out to be SUPER hot and my husband (who loves hot things) requested I “thin it out so his nose wouldn’t run” and so that’s how I toned down the heat. I think that this is very close to perfect, though I do feel that the chives contributed nothing that a regular onion wouldn’t also have contributed, though, so while I will make this again, I’ll use a regular onion (the whole thing, too, I hate the “half an onion” measurements). My salsa looks identical to the only picture posted of this recipe. Thank you for sharing!
Made this salsa with 2 lg cans of whole Italian tomatoes instead of stewed (they are always awesome) and an extra clove of garlic. OMG..the best salsa ever! Thanks Susan!
I loved this Salsa, I made it for a party we had, and I know I am making it for my son’s birthday party (there will be lots of people). I think it’s the best salsa I’ve ever had. I used to make my husband go out to Mexican Restuarants to get me salsa and cheese dip almost 3 times a week while I was pregnant, so I had my share lol. Highly recommended!!
Used fresh tomatoes from the garden instead of canned. Added red onion and lime juice. Easy & Tastey! Thanks!
I thought this was a good salsa! I’ve never use serrano peppers before, and boy are they hot! I made 1 1/2 bateh and I used one large pepper and next time I’ll only use 1/2 of one. It definitely left a zing on my lips. I also added a touch of liquid smoke and a couple of green onions! I added quite a bit of salt as I like my salsa more salty than sweet. Maybe a different brand of tomatoes would help that as well. Definitely a keeper recipe!
Very good and very easy, a little cilantro heavy for my taste, but still good!
I thought it was just okay. Nothing really that great about this recipe. It tasted very bland. Not enough flavor for my taste buds.
This is a classic recipe. My salsa came out delicious.. by far the best I’ve made. I used a white onion instead of chives. I also added a pinch of cumin to the salsa to give more taste. If you want a spicier salsa, I added 2 jalapenos and 1 serrano with the seeds. This gives you a spicy.. and declious salsa. I only blended it for 5 seconds on the pulse setting for a chunkier salsa.
Great base recipe! I added about a tablespoon of lime juice and 2 teaspoons of Omega3 oil. I used jalepenos instead of chilis and red onions instead of chives. Good stuff!