Homemade Salsa Recipe

Ingredients

• 4-5 medium ripe tomatoes, seeded
• 1/2 red onion, minced
• 1 clove pressed garlic
• 1/2 green pepper, minced
• 1 cup cilantro, finely chopped (less if you aren’t a cilantro fan)
• 2 tsp. cumin
• 1 tbsp. paprika
• 1 tsp. salt
• 1 tsp. chili powder
• 1 tsp. black pepper
• 1 tsp. red pepper flakes
• 1/2 lime juice
• tsp. olive oil
• Optional – If you like it hot, add 1/2 jalapeno pepper with the seeds removed

Directions

1. Seed all your tomatoes and chop them. The better you seed the tomatoes, the less “water” you will have in your salsa. Don’t use a food processor, it tends to pull more water out of the tomatoes. Note- You want to use ripe tomatoes for this.  It will give the salsa more flavor.

2. In a bowl, mix tomatoes and all of the other ingredients.

3. Refrigerate at least 3 hours before eating.

4. This salsa does not have a very long shelf life, so make sure you only make what you can use in a day or two.