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Tomato Salsa

Gardening Guide: The Everything Tomato Guide: All You Need to Know About Growing, Harvesting, Cooking, and Eating Delicious Tomatoes

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Tomato Salsa

This fresh tomato salsa recipe always wins, from dipping chips, to topping tacos, to marinating chicken and everything in between.

By Bill Dugan, Editor and Publisher

When you have fresh ripe tomatoes flowing from your garden day after day, what’s better than making a fresh tomato salsa?!

I love the fresh ingredients of good salsa. I don’t mean one made from a mix, with canned tomatoes, or even with jarred peppers and onions. To me, “fresh” means starting with raw ingredients, all real food that you have grown yourself, if possible. It can be as simple as slicing red tomatoes from the garden into a bowl and adding lots of chopped onion, a little bit of minced garlic, salt to taste, and a plate of chips.

It’s not only better tasting but far more nutritious this way. Fresh vegetables contain loads more vitamins than their canned or frozen counterparts because they are harvested before they have time to lose nutrients. Raw foods contain enzymes that aid in their digestion.

I could go on and on about the virtues of fresh food, but since I was really talking about salsa, let’s get back to that. Salsa also provides an easy way for me to take advantage of my garden since most of the ingredients I need to make this salsa are in it.

A few tips:

  • If you ever find your tomato salsa is too spicy, just add a little more lime juice to mellow it out.
  • Rinse your chopped onions before you use them and pat them dry. That will also mellow the bite that fresh onions have and leave you just with the delicious flavor.

And yes, this is family-friendly and mild. This salsa recipe can bring us all together in the kitchen in just a few seconds!

My fresh salsa recipe is easy to make and has a delicious sweet and spicy flavor. It goes great with chips, tacos, burritos, fajitas, or any Mexican-style meal. You can also use it as a topping for enchiladas or add it to your eggs in the morning instead of ketchup. Two words for this recipe—fresh and delicious!

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Fresh Salsa

Tomato Salsa

This fresh tomato salsa recipe always wins, from dipping chips, to topping tacos to marinating chicken and everything in between.

  • Author: Bill Dugan
  • Prep Time: 15 minutes
  • Chilling Time: 1 hour
  • Total Time: 1 hour 15 minutes
  • Yield: Serves 12 1x
  • Category: Sides & Sauces

Ingredients

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  • 2 cups Roma (or Plum) tomatoes, chopped
  • 1/4 cup chopped red onion
  • 1/4 cup chopped yellow onion
  • 1/4 fresh jalapeño pepper, seeded and finely minced
  • 2 tablespoons fresh-squeezed lime juice
  • 2 tablespoons chopped fresh cilantro
  • 2 cloves garlic, peeled and minced
  • 1 teaspoon ground cumin
  • 1/4 teaspoon sea salt

Instructions

  1. Combine tomatoes, red onion, yellow onion, jalapeño pepper, lime juice, cilantro, garlic, cumin, and salt in a food processor.
  2. Pulse the processor until mixture is only slightly combined, yet remains chunky.
  3. Transfer entire mixture to a bowl, cover with plastic wrap, and refrigerate at least 1 hour.

Notes

  • Allow 1 hour to refrigerate before serving.

Tomatoes are the most popular plant for home gardeners! With The Everything Tomato Gardening Guide, you’ll have everything you need to know about growing and enjoying this versatile food, from the history and background of the mighty tomato to specific advice on growing, harvesting, and enjoying your hard work! Check it out now.

Have you tried this Tomato Salsa recipe? It’s so easy and so fresh with a bowl of chips—please tell us how it turned out for you.

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  • Norann O. February 22, 2022

    Alice – thanks for the suggestion. I like the idea of freezing extras to use at a later date.

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  • Alice M. February 18, 2022

    I prefer to rinse 2 chopped onions, and pulverize that with lime segments (no seeds, pith or peel) and some cilantro pulled off stems in the food processor. I put one tablespoon of that into salsa, then add one teaspoon at a time, to taste, with a pinch of pink Himalayan salt. Freeze remaining purée in ice cube tray for later usage. Nobody I cook for likes chunks of onion in fresh salsa, and especially not in guacamole. No waste, and kids who “hate onion” love it.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

  • Curator’s Corner
  • Introduction
  • Feature Articles

  • Types of Tomato Plants: Standard, Hybrid and Heirloom
  • Preventing Cross Pollination of Heirloom Tomatoes
  • Classifications of Tomato Plants: Determinate vs. Indeterminate
  • Varieties of Tomato Plants
  • Growing Tomatoes from Seeds, Cuttings, or Seedlings
  • Growing Tomatoes in Open Land, in Containers, or in Raised Beds
  • Soil Requirements for Growing Tomatoes
  • The Right Sunlight for Your Tomatoes
  • Should You Fertilize Tomato Plants?
  • How and When to Water Tomato Plants
  • Harvesting and Pruning your Tomatoes
  • Storing and Preserving your Tomatoes
  • How to Spot, Treat, and Prevent Tomato Diseases
  • What to Do About Pests that Can Harm Your Tomato Plants
  • The Right Way to Weed Your Tomato Garden
  • Tomato Rot: How to Identify, Treat, and Prevent Blossom-End Rot
  • Essential Tools and Equipment for Growing Tomatoes
  • Plant Profiles

  • Green Beefsteak Tomatoes
  • Red Beefsteak Tomatoes
  • San Marzano Tomatoes
  • Roma (or Plum) Tomatoes
  • Grape Tomatoes
  • Cherry Tomatoes
  • Recipes

  • Balsamic Bruschetta
  • Tomato Salsa
  • Authentic Italian Pizza Sauce
  • Fried Green Tomatoes
  • Stewed Tomatoes
  • Salsa Seafood Soup
  • Roasted Tomato Sauce
  • Cherry Tomato Salad
  • Additional Articles

  • Nutrition Facts about Tomatoes
  • Home Remedies & Health Benefits of Tomatoes
  • Resources about Tomatoes
  • Tomatoes Glossary
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  • The Best Vegetables to Grow in a Greenhouse
  • The Best Grow Lights for Tomatoes and Peppers
  • The 15 Best Beefsteak Tomatoes To Grow in 2023
  • How to Prune Tomato Plants, Peppers, Cucumbers and More
  • How to Stop Vegetable Blight from Ruining Tomatoes
  • Yellow Leaves on Tomato Plants? 5 Reasons and Remedies
  • 5 Tomato Canning Supplies to Preserve Sauce Longer
  • How to Ripen Tomatoes Quickly Three Ways
  • How to Kill Aphids on Tomato Plants with Stuff from Your Pantry
  • Gardening Equipment Every Tomato Gardener Needs
  • How to Grow Your Own Pizza Garden for the Best Pizza Parties
  • How to Avoid Tomato Blossom End Rot
  • How to Make Chicken Cacciatore in a Crock-Pot
  • The 5 Best Tomatoes for Salsa
  • The 10 Sweetest Tomatoes to Plant

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