The Best Homemade Salsa Recipe! This homemade restaurant-style Salsa is one of my most frequently made recipes! It’s perfect served with tortilla chips or as a topping over your favorite Mexican food, like tacos, burritos, taquitos and so forth. The best party food around and a must-have snack!
Fact: the best salsa is made with fresh tomatoes. Okay, that’s just my opinion, but in the past I thought I could go the route of using all canned tomatoes, but using fresh tomatoes makes a world of difference! Fresh tomatoes make the best salsa, especially when you use nicely ripened in season tomatoes.
This is hands down my favorite salsa recipe, and I don’t know that I’ll ever need another one. It just has the perfect ratio and blend of everything.
It’s not too oniony or garlicy, nor too spicy for my kids, it doesn’t tasting like it came from a can and it has the perfect brightness with the fresh lime. Then it has a classic Mexican flavor with the cilantro and hint of chili powder and cumin.
The sugar I’d say is only needed if you are using store-bought tomatoes. If you grow your own or buy them at the farmers market, the quality is a bit better and they’re a bit sweeter so the sugar isn’t needed.
What to go all out? Try this with homemade tortilla chips, fried or baked. Everyone will be totally impressed! I don’t make them often, but when I do it makes the fresh salsa that much better.
This salsa should last for up to a week if stored in a sealed container in the fridge.
I love this salsa with canned plain tomatoes, canned tomatoes with green chilies, or canned fire roasted tomatoes. All work great, just use what you have.
Homemade Salsa
A super easy, super fresh, super delicious salsa. You’ll never need another salsa recipe again! This has been my go-to recipe for years, it’s definitely a family favorite. We make it almost every week. It’s a staple recipe.
Prep: 5min
Total: 5min
Serving Size: 1 serving
Nutrition Facts: calories 20 kcal, Carbohydrate 4 g, Sodium 41 mg, Fiber 1 g, Sugar 2 g, servingSize 1 serving
Ingredients:
- 1 1/4 lbs ripe Roma tomatoes* ((about 5 – 6))
- 1 (14.5 oz) can petite diced tomatoes**
- 2 green onions,*** (ends trimmed, chopped into thirds)
- 1/3 cup chopped red onion ((about 1/4 of a medium))
- 1 jalapeno pepper,**** (seeded and roughly chopped)
- 1/3 cup fresh cilantro ((about a handful))
- 1 large clove garlic, (roughly chopped)
- 2 Tbsp fresh lime juice
- 1/2 tsp chili powder
- 1/4 tsp ground cumin
- 1/2 tsp granulated sugar ((optional))
- Salt and pepper to taste
Instruction:
- Combine all ingredients in a food processor and pulse in 1 second bursts until all ingredients are finely chopped.
- Serve with tortilla chips. Note that salsa always tastes best after it’s been refrigerated for a few hours, so if time allows let the flavors marinate together before serving.
- Store in refrigerator up to 1 week.
Quick and Easy Salsa Recipe – Homemade Salsa From Scratch
FAQ
What’s the ingredients for salsa?
- Ripe tomatoes – cored and quartered, no peeling necessary!
- Red onion – peeled and quartered.
- Garlic cloves – peeled.
- Jalapeños – stemmed and seeded.
- Cilantro.
- Fresh lime juice.
- Ground cumin.
- Sugar – optional. Sometimes the tomatoes need a little boost to balance the acidity.
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