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easy recipes for homemade salsa

These might be the most important recipes on the site!  Once you get comfortable making homemade Salsa then the whole cuisine will open up for you!

Tomato Jalapeno Salsa

October 24, 2016 By Patrick 49 Comments

This Tomato Jalapeno Salsa is the Mother of all Mexican Salsas. Getting the heat level to your liking opens up infinite possibilities. mexicanplease.com

I always come back to this Tomato Jalapeno Salsa.  Even after dozens of other salsa expeditions to far away flavors, I always come back.  A warm salsa blended together moments ago simply cannot be beat. Don’t let the innocent looking ingredient list fool you.  It’s one of the simplest Mexican recipes in existence, but it also…

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Wicked Hot Chipotle Chile Pequin Salsa

August 19, 2016 By Patrick 16 Comments

This Wicked Chipotle Chile Pequin Salsa gets serious heat from the Chile Pequins and a rich flavor from the Chipotles. So good! Keep an eye out for Chile Pequins (Piquin) in Latin markets. mexicanplease.com

(This Wicked Chipotle Chile Pequin Salsa relies on chipotles for flavor and chile pequins for heat!  Jump to recipe here.) As chili peppers get smaller they tend to get hotter.  And Chile Pequins are real small. Their capsaicin level is 5-10 times stronger than a jalapeno so consider yourself warned, they are one of the hottest chilis…

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Cascabel Chile Salsa

May 27, 2016 By Patrick 10 Comments

This Cascabel Chile Salsa limits the other ingredients so that the Cascabels can shine! It's worth trying if you've never used Cascabels before mexicanplease.com

Cascabel Chiles are the quiet kid in the back of the classroom.  Their smaller size and mild heat has kept them off most people’s radar. Named after the distinctive rattle their seeds make, Cascabels are typically paired with other, more robust chiles to make up for their perceived shortcomings. But Cascabels have a unique flavor that can easily…

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So Many Ranchera Sauce Recipes — Where’s Your Sweet Spot?

March 29, 2016 By Patrick 5 Comments

You know that telephone game where you whisper a message to the first person and then go around the ring to see how close the final message is to the original? Well, Ranchera Sauce has been around the telephone ring a few times and it’s taken on all sorts of idiosyncrasies from the players. Taking a…

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Tomato Chipotle Salsa Step-by-Step

February 10, 2016 By Patrick 20 Comments

Tomato-Chipotle Salsa Step-by-Step | mexicanplease.com

I’ve been getting some questions about the Tomato Chipotle Salsa used in the latest burrito post, so here’s a step-by-step account showing the easiest way to make it. It’s the perfect example of a salsa that has become multiuso.  Not only does it work in the aforementioned burrito, but it can improve just about anything else you want to goop…

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Fire Salsa — Salsa del Fuego

January 26, 2016 By Patrick 9 Comments

Mexican Fire Salsa -- Salsa del Fuego mexicanplease.com

“Got anything hotter?” It’s a question commonly heard in taquerias and kitchens around the world. There’s always someone in the room who needs their salsa bordering on volcanic.  Well, say hello to Fire Salsa.   The beauty of this salsa is that it has flavor too, it’s not just pure heat.  Yes, the heat will sneak…

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Homemade Salsa — A Cost Argument

January 19, 2016 By Patrick 6 Comments

cost argument homemade salsa price comparison

What if your local market starting selling jars of salsa for 94 cents?  Jars like this: And if the $0.94 version tasted significantly better than the $4.79 store-bought version, which would you buy? It would be a no-brainer right? So why do people still pay five bucks for store-bought salsa?  I don’t know! FRESH, VIBRANT 94 CENT SALSA…

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Authentic Salsa Verde Recipe

January 8, 2016 By Patrick 65 Comments

salsa verde in jar green sauce

Nothing will transform your kitchen more than having go-to recipes for the two pillars of Mexican cuisine: red sauce and green sauce. Today it’s the Green Sauce on center stage.  Otherwise known as Tomatillo-Serrano sauce, or Salsa Verde, or Mexico’s #2 salsa.  A homemade green sauce can transform eggs, slow cooker carnitas, and enchiladas into something…

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Salsa Verde Emergency Rescue Technique

December 4, 2015 By Patrick Leave a Comment

rescued salsa verde with bean cheese taquitos

It’s getting late. You’re still hungry. A really good idea pops in your head: bean and cheese taquitos dipped in salsa verde. You had a light dinner. You’ll probably be up for a couple more hours anyways. I deserve this. Recently you’ve gotten good at whipping up a homemade salsa verde using fresh tomatillos, so you open the…

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3 Keys to Perfect Homemade Salsa

October 8, 2015 By Patrick 27 Comments

This Tomato Jalapeno Salsa is the Mother of all Mexican Salsas. Getting the heat level to your liking opens up infinite possibilities. mexicanplease.com

When I walk past the salsa aisle in the grocery store I give it the Hand. Like a fed-up mother who doesn’t want to hear it. Or a traffic cop halting a lane of approaching cars. Or a dude who knows that store-bought salsa just doesn’t come close to the real thing. Spend five minutes…

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