Homemade Restaurant Style Salsa | Easy Mexican Salsa Fresca Recipe (2024)

Homemade Restaurant Style Salsa – Super easy to prepare chunky homemade salsa made with delicious ingredients, and 1000 times better than any store-bought version. Takes minutes to whip up and tastes amazing!

Hi, guys! Happy first day of February! If it wasn’t for this cold weather, I’d be okay with it being February and not July, but that’s not the case, regretfully. I need sun!

Just last week I was in warm Punta Cana eating my way through the island, includingall things salsa and tacos and coconutsand mangoes… but now, here I am in cool and chill Indiana only DREAMINGabout salsa, tacos, coconutsand mangoes. Ugh… On the bright side, only 342days until next time!

This is a sponsored post by Hunt’s tomatoes. All opinions are 100% my own.

About that restaurant stylesalsa, friends.

The biggest game day is coming up and there’s nothing better than having a full bowl of amazing salsa in your hands while dealing with those crazy up and down emotionsduring saidgame.

I’ve had manyrun-ins with good restaurant style salsa. The kind that send youscreaming for a taste of that chunky, spicy bite. I’ve also tasted good ones that come in a jar, but they weren’t great until I added in a whole bunch of my own ingredients. Anyone else do that? I’m guilty of it almost 100% of the time.

At some point I decided to stop the insanity and call up my Mama for her salsa recipe. Seriously, after adding all that I wanted to the store-bought stuff, the only thing I was missing, and they provided me with, was the tomatoes. Duh.

BEST TOMATOES FOR SALSA

In that event, step number UNOto this superb salsa includes opening up a can of Hunt’s Whole Peeled Plum Tomatoes. Hunt’s Tomatoes are always premium vine-ripened tomatoes and Hunt’scans their diced, whole, and stewed tomatoes within hours after harvest. The tomatoes are 100% natural, non-GMO,and are a natural source of antioxidantsandvitamin C.

To add to the string of positives,prior to canning,Hunt’s peels theirdiced, whole,ANDstewed tomatoesusing a process called FlashSteam™which usessteam fromsimple hot water. There arecompanies that use *lye (a chemical)to peel theirtomatoes, andHunt’sjust uses FlashSteam™, a.k.a. hot water. NO chemicals.

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What I like about this particular restaurant style salsa recipe (mom’s recipes always rock) is that you can prepare the tomato mixture ahead of time and add all the fixings a few hours before you’re ready to serve.

HOW TO MAKE RESTAURANT STYLE SALSA

First we’re going to combine our tomatoes in a blender with some garlic, cumin, salt, cilantro and lime juice; a few pulses later, you are going to end up with a nice chunky salsa ready for its final presentation. BUT not so fast. At this point, I pour the finished mixture into a couple of small jars and refrigerate until I am ready to use it.

Sincegame day isthis Sunday, that nice jar up there is sitting in my fridge almost ready to be gobbled upin just a few days.

Hours before you are ready to serve it, diceup some red onions, jalapeno pepper(s)and a banana pepper; pour the tomato mixture into a large bowl, add the diced veggies to it, mix, cover, and refrigerate for at least 3 hours. Then, pour the prepared salsa in a serving bowl, garnish with more onions, peppers and cilantro, and serve.

Don’t forget the chips!

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ENJOY!

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