I was thinking about my post on taco recipes and I thought about making a post about Salsa!!

One of the most important parts of eating a taco is what you put on top of them. There are several types of salsa for tacos. Some salsas are spicy and others not so much. Well, I decided to share with you a few salsa recipes.

I will be sharing the recipes for three types of salsas that go well with your tacos. I will be posting the recipes for making Salsa Verde (green salsa), Salsa Roja (red salsa) and Pico de Gallo. These three salsas are great for accompanying your tacos and they are not so complicated to make. The best part of making these salsas is the fact that they can be made very easily, they don’t take a long time and they have a few ingredients.

I’m talking to you about the salsa you can eat not the dancing music! Salsa is a sauce that can be spicy and very delicious. But you can also have salsa that is not as spicy (it all just depends on the jalapeño that you use).

 

Salsa Roja (red salsa)

Ingredients

3 Tomatoes

1 ½  Water

2 Spoons Chili Powder

½ tsp Salt

Blender / Molcajete

 

Steps:

1. Grave your 3 tomatoes and slice them in half.

1. Grave pot and add the water into them start warming it and you can add the tomatoes into the pot. You can leave them in the pot for about 10-15 minutes.
2. While the tomatoes are being heated you can begin to blend the chili.
3. Once the tomatoes are soft you can begin to add them to the blender or the molcajete it is up to you.
4. And inside the molcajete or blender, you can add the salt.

There you go it’s all made!

 

Salsa Verde (green salsa)

Ingredients

1 Pound of small green tomatoes

4 Jalapeños

1 ½ Water

½ tsp Salt

Blender / Molcajete

 

Steps:

1. Clean the green tomatoes and then add them into a pot with the jalapeños.
2. In the pot add the water and let the jalapeños and green tomatoes boil in the water for about 15 minutes.
3. Once the tomatoes are soft and the jalapeños are soft you can take them out.
4. Then you can blend them in the blender or molcajete and add the salt.
5. Blend until it has a consistency of a sauce.

Pico De Gallo

Ingredients

1 Tomato

1 Jalapeño

¼ Onion

3 tbsp. fresh chopped cilantro

1tbs of salt (optional)

 

Steps:

1. Cut the tomatoes, jalapeño, onion and cilantro into small pieces.
2. Once you have the ingredients you can begin to mix them together in a bowl.
3. You can add the salt if you want.

 

Well, these three salsas are easy to make and really don’t have a lot of ingredients. You can make them in your home with no problem. And you can get to enjoy them with your tacos.

Enjoy!!