This is such an EASY homemade salsa recipe! All you have to do is throw diced tomatoes, rotel, cilantro, lime juice, onion powder, jalapeños, and cumin into your blender, and blend! It tastes just like restaurant salsa and goes perfectly with tortilla chips, tacos, enchiladas, or any other Mexican food!
BEST Homemade Salsa
Who doesn’t love Salsa? I grew up on the stuff (remember – I’m half Mexican!) I’ve always loved a great Homemade Salsa recipe and have tried so many different kinds growing up. I’ve also tried many recipes myself and have enjoyed them all but think I finally found the easiest and yummiest way to make homemade salsa. It literally takes just a few minutes to make and tastes like it came straight from the restaurant. All I need is a big bowl of homemade Tortilla Chips and I’m set. 😉
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How to Make Salsa:
I’m not joking around when I say you literally throw everything into your blender or food processor, blend it up, and that’s it. There’s no chopping, no dicing, no nothing! Even the Roma tomatoes and cilantro can be tossed in whole. How nice is that?! And to be honest, I prefer restaurant style salsa like this over chunky salsa or pico. The fact that it’s this easy to make is even better!! I don’t have any experience with canning this salsa, but we’ve always been able to keep it up to a week in the fridge, either in a tupperware container with a lid, or a mason jar with a lid.
Here are a few variations you can make of this salsa recipe:
- If you like onion in your salsa, add 1/2 small onion, roughly chopped.
- You can seed the jalapeños if you want it less spicy, or leave the seeds in for a spicy kick.
- Add 1 tsp of honey for a hint of sweetness.
- If you don’t have Ro-Tel (canned diced tomatoes with green chiles) at your local grocery store, you can substitute half a can of diced tomatoes, plus a 4 oz. can of green chiles.
Just add all your ingredients… And blend!!
Yum! Until I learn how to make homemade tortilla chips, I’ll just enjoy this yummy homemade salsa with all the tacos and enchiladas I make. 😉
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Homemade Salsa Recipe
This is such an EASY homemade salsa recipe! All you have to do is throw diced tomatoes, rotel, cilantro, lime juice, onion powder, jalapeños, and cumin into your blender, and blend! It goes perfectly with tortilla chips, tacos, enchiladas, or any other Mexican food!
Ingredients
- 14 oz can diced tomatoes drained
- 10 oz can original Rotel drained
- 2 - 3 Roma tomatoes
- 1 tsp onion powder
- 1 tsp minced garlic
- 1 - 2 TB diced jalapenos
- 1 tsp garlic salt
- 1/4 tsp ground cumin
- medium size handful of cilantro washed
- 1 tsp lime juice
Instructions
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Add all ingredients to blender and mix until well blended.
Recipe adapted from Mountain Mama Cooks.
Homemade Salsa Gift
In case you want to give a jar of Homemade Salsa as a gift, I decided to make some free printable tags. You can make it a gift to give anytime of the year, or it would be a great Christmas gift as well. There are tags for either occasion:
All you have to do is download the tag you want.
TO SAVE:
To Save, CLICK on the tag you like, RIGHT-CLICK and then SAVE. Open it in a program like WORD, RE-SIZE, PRINT, cut out and attach.
Nothing like a delicious and simple recipe as well as how to turn it into a quick and inexpensive gift too!
You can make Salsa Verde with the recipe below and turn it into a gift as well:
ENJOY!
What a delicious gift idea! I love how pretty it looks all bottled up with the tags! Love how easy this salsa is to whip up too!
Making this for sure! Also, how many jars will this make for me? Thanks!
Depends on the size of jar, but for this size it fills just under 2. 😉
how long will the salsa keep?
Unfortunately, I’m not really sure. We’ve never had it last longer than a week. Sorry! :/
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Pls what is’Rotel’? I don’t live in the USA so I have no idea what it is & have never heard of it before.
Rotel is diced tomatoes with zesty green chiles. It adds great flavor!! Here is a link if you’d like to check it out..http://www.ro-tel.com/ You can find it with canned tomatoes in the grocery store. Hope that helps!!
Interesting recipe. I’ll have to try this sometime. Does it taste as good as salsa bought from the store?
Oh, so much better!! I hope you will! Let me know what you think 🙂
What is Rotel?
and why don’t you use real onions, not artificial powder?
Why not real homegrown tomatoes, not everything out of a can!
Rotel is tomatoes mixed with green chiles. I personally don’t like onions, that is why I add the onion powder, but you could totally add onions & fresh tomatoes. I use tomatoes, but sometimes I need to hurry or it’s for convenience.
How many fresh tomatoes would you use for this recipe? I have a bag of fresh garden Roma tomatoes. For the jar, do you have to seal it like you do when you can? Just curious. New at this
You would need just a few larger ones, if you like more, you could add more. Just depends on you 🙂
Hey Kristyn, Its really delicious and yummy!!!
I have tried this Salsa last night in my kitchen and it was superb. My family like it so much. Thanks very much for the recipe and please tell me can I keep it for 1 week??
Thanks again.
Yay!! I am so glad you like it!! Yes, it will keep for a week. I would keep it in a tupperware with a lid or a jar with a lid.
Roman tomatoes are the same as Roma, correct?
Oops..sorry, it should say Roma 🙂 I will fix that!
How much does this make? We would like to can it. Thanks for your time!
It makes between a pint & quart 🙂 It is so tasty! Hope you like it!
TherEs not an easier salsa than this recipe. Everything goes in the blender and its ready to go. Its miLd and very taSty. Have your chips ready!
This salsa was so easy to make & incredibly good!! It tastes just as good or even better than the ones at the restaurant!! I have given this as gifts too!! It is the best!
This is the only red salsa recipe we make. IT has a really great flavor and holds Well in the fridge. I like to pour out half of the recipe FOr the kids and add more jalapenos for me. Yum!