posted by lovemyhouse
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If anyone is interested, here is how I make semi-homemade salsa.
15 ounce can of diced tomatoes, or diced tomatoes with jalapenos (not Rotel, the proportion of tomato to pepper is too low)
Two mild Anaheim or New Mexico Hatch peppers with seeds removed and chunked. Use Jalapenos if you like it REALLY warm
1/2-3/4 cup white onion, chunked
Two teaspoons lime or lemon juice
1-2 cups well-washed cilantro
1/2-1 teaspoon garlic powder
1/2 teaspoon cumin
1/2-1 cup bottled salsa or picante.
Blend the 1/2 can of tomatoes with the peppers, onion, cilantro, citrus juice and spices until almost smooth. Add the other 1/2 can tomatoes and bottled salsa and pulse until broken down. I usually make it fairly smooth, but could be left a little chunky if you wanted. Tastes almost like all the ingredients were fresh.
I'd start with the smaller amounts of ingredients first, then add more to taste. You could leave out the garlic and cumin if you wanted.
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Lovemyhouse noted a couple posts later....
Got the idea for semi-homemade from Sandra Lee on Food Network, but the concoction is from my own humble self. The good thing about doing it this way is that you can just slice from the entire cilantro bunch rather than have to take the leaves off first. Blending it like I do pulverizes the stems, but you do have to make sure all the sand is rinsed off first. Learned the hard way on that one!
