Tomato salsa recipe for nachos | Hot and Spicy tomato salsa recipe | Tomato salsa dip
The tomato salsa recipe for nachos is another popular Mexican dip recipe prepared from red and juicy roasted tomatoes, garlic and onions. The spicy and tangy taste of tomato salsa gives a nice kick to your taste buds and makes you have some more. This recipe is an ideal dip for Nachos chips or Doritos chips and can even be had on fajitas.
Fellow Salsa lovers, this recipe is for you. This refreshing and flavourful red salsa offers a fresh and authentic taste of Mexican dip. Do you know what’s the best part? It’s so easy to make with very minimal ingredients. And is a favourite dip recipe for bachelors who mainly rely on chips. Also, it takes less than 10 minutes to prepare this. If you are having a food processor then preparation will be quicker.
Moreover, the earthly flavours and aroma that you get from roasted cumin seeds, Jalapeños and hot dried red chillies are just ultimate. Perfect ingredients are the key to the texture and taste of salsa. If you like me who loves mild-salsa then only add half Jalapeño, ribs removed and deseeded. I have used Kashmiri dried red chillies, these are mildly hot and adds a red colour.
Tips for selecting ingredients:
- The most important ingredient is TOMATO. I would recommend you to use gorgeous red and ripe tomatoes, their flavour is the key. Roast the tomatoes till they get charred spots and there you go. You can even use the storebought roasted tomatoes.
- Secondly, roast cloves of garlic and onions to enhance the flavour of the salsa.
- Add deseeded Jalapeños to the food processor or in the blender and do not blend into a smooth paste. Stop blending when the ingredients are chopped into tiny bits.
Tomato salsa is quick to prepare yet tasty and yummy. Serve it to your guests on your get together and leave them surprised. This salsa tastes so much better than store-bought salsas that you’ll never go back. It’s true restaurant-style salsa. Serve it with tortilla chips for the perfect party dip or savoury snack.
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Tomato salsa
Materials
- 3 medium Red tomatoes ripe and juicy
- 1 medium Onion
- 5 - 6 Garlic Cloves
- 2 tbsp Fresh coriander leaves roughly chopped
- 2 Dried red chillies I am using Kashmiri dried red chillies
- 5 - 6 Jalapeño slices
- 1 tsp Roasted cumin seeds You can use roasted cumin powder as well
- 2 tbsp Lemon juice
- 1 - 2 tbsp extra virgin Olive oil
- Salt per taste
Instructions
For roasting tomatoes:
- Firstly, heat a tawa or griddle on medium-high flame for roasting. Alternatively, you can roast in an oven as well.
- Place 3 tomatoes, 6 garlic cloves and 1 small onion on the tawa and roast on medium flame.
- Flip all the ingredients when roasted from 1 side and let it roast from other sides as well.
- Remove the onions and cloves of garlic from the tawa and continue to roast tomatoes.
- Roast tomatoes till it gets charred spots on all sides and turn off the flame. Let it cool down to room temperature.
- Now, transfer the roasted tomatoes, garlic and onion into the blender.
- Furthermore, add coriander leaves, jalapeño, roasted cumin seeds and dried red chillies.
- Add Lemon juice, olive oil and salt into the blender and blend it coarsely without adding any water.
- Finally, enjoy the delicious roasted tomato salsa recipe with Nachos and Doritos Chips.
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Step by step instructions
For roasting tomatoes:
- Firstly, heat a tawa or griddle on medium-high flame for roasting. Alternatively, you can roast in an oven as well.
- Place 3 tomatoes, 6 garlic cloves and 1 small onion on the tawa and roast on medium flame.
- Flip all the ingredients when roasted from 1 side and let it roast from other sides as well.
- Remove the onions and cloves of garlic from the tawa and continue to roast tomatoes.
- Roast tomatoes till it gets charred spots on all sides and turn off the flame. Let it cool down to room temperature.
- Now, transfer the roasted tomatoes, garlic and onion into the blender.
- Furthermore, add coriander leaves, jalapeño, roasted cumin seeds and dried red chillies.
- Add Lemon juice, olive oil and salt into the blender and blend it coarsely without adding any water.
- Finally, enjoy the delicious roasted tomato salsa recipe with Nachos and Doritos Chips.
Important tips while making salsa recipe:
- I have already described above about the ingredients, do make sure to take the red tomatoes.
- Use fresh lemon juice and not the store bought bottled ones.
- If making for kids then completely skip the jalapeño and red chillies.
- You can easily double and triple the recipe for the crowd by adjusting the proportions of ingredients.
- Finally, serve homemade tomato salsa fresh and tasty.
Finally, I would like to share my other Snacks recipes from my blog. This includes Rava Dhokla recipe, Aloo matar kachori recipe, litti chokha recipe, matar ke chole recipe, nimki recipe, etc. In addition to this, do visit my other recipes collection from my blog like Main course collection, Breakfast collection, Desserts collection. To know more about tomato salsa visit the official wiki.
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Internal images of the recipe are really tempting. It is little overhead to roast veggies and then grind it but it is worth if you want better taste.
Thank you very much Suman for liking the recipe.