Fresh Tomato Salsa (Pico de Gallo)

Fresh Tomato Salsa (Pico de Gallo)
Fresh Tomato Salsa (Pico de Gallo) requires about 6 minutes from start to finish. This recipe serves 3. Watching your figure? This gluten free, dairy free, paleolithic, and lacto ovo vegetarian recipe has 38 calories, 2g of protein, and 0g of fat per serving. This recipe is typical of Mexican cuisine. This recipe from Simply Recipes requires salt and pepper, onion, serrano chiles, and juice of lime. It works well as a hor d'oeuvre.

Instructions

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Prep the ingredients: Roughly chop the tomatoes, chiles, and onions. Be very careful while handling the chile peppers. Use disposable gloves, or wash your hands thoroughly with soap and hot water after handling and avoid touching your eyes for several hours.
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Set aside some of the seeds from the peppers. If the salsa isn't hot enough, you can add a few for more heat.
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Place all of the ingredients in the bowl of a food processor fitted with the blade. Pulse only a few times, just enough to finely dice the ingredients and not enough to purée. If you don't have a food processor, you can finely dice by hand.
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Place in a serving bowl.
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Add salt and pepper to taste. If the chilies make the salsa too hot, add some more chopped tomato. If it's not hot enough, carefully add a few of the seeds from the chilies, or add a little more ground cumin.
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Let the salsa sit for an hour (room temperature or chilled) for the flavors to combine.
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Serve with chips, tortillas, tacos, burritos, tostadas, quesadillas, pinto or black beans. The salsa will keep refrigerated for up to 5 days.
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DifficultyEasy
Ready In6 m.
Servings3
Health Score32
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