Favor Salsa Verde Recipes

Salsa Verde. This is the 'salsa de tomatillo' that I grew up with. It can be used as a sauce for grilled chicken, fish or shrimp, as the basis for green chilaquiles (pour over tortilla chips, shredded cooked chicken and shredded Monterey Jack, then heat under the broiler), and as a dipping sauce for chips. Toss tomatillos, white onion, and jalapeños with vegetable oil on a sheet tray, and season with salt and pepper.

This authentic Mexican salsa verde has a fabulous flavor. Use it on chicken enchiladas or as a condiment for any dish that needs a little extra zip! Classic Salsa Verde Simple and Delicious. You can have Salsa Verde using 12 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Salsa Verde

1. It's 3 of tomatillo.
2. You need 1 of Serrano pepper.
3. You need 1 cup of yellow onion, chopped.
4. Prepare 1 tbsp of garlic, minced.
5. You need 1/2 cup of green bell pepper, chopped.
6. It's 1/2 cup of cilantro, packed.
7. You need of salt.
8. You need 2 tsp of olive oil, extra virgin.
9. You need 1 tsp of ground cumin.
10. Prepare 1/4 tsp of ground black pepper.
11. It's 1/2 of lime, juice.
12. It's 1/3 cup of water.

Our Salsa verde recipe is really easy to make and the ingredients are available at almost every supermarket. You can use tomatillos that look like small green tomatoes and are covered in a papery husk or the larger green tomatoes, tomates verdes. The tomatillos in the picture already have the papery husks removed. Salsa Verde originated from Mexico and is a green salsa, usually tomatillo based (unlike a red tomato based salsa).

Salsa Verde step by step

1. Preheat oven to broil..
2. Place tomatillos and serrano pepper on a baking sheet and broil in the oven 5 inches below broil coils for 5 minutes on each side; until the tomatillos and serrano pepper blisters and blacken..
3. In a high power blender add below ingredients and blend on high until the texture is a puree. You should have roughly 2 cups of Salsa Verde when done, and serve!.

It is usually used as a chip dip or on tacos (I also love it on enchiladas, fajitas, tostadas and chimichangas!). This is a roasted version of green salsa - nothing overly roasted or too far blackened for my liking, just a fair char on two sides. Salsa verde can be prepared in many different ways. It can be made with roasted or raw tomatoes, and it can be combined with many different types of herbs. It can also be very thin or a little bit thicker.