It’s time to enjoy a great snack with some warm tortilla chips and Restaurant Style Salsa!
While I love my Homemade Chunky Salsa, my husband loves the smooth restaurant-style salsa. So, in hopes of making his day, I decided to adapt my chunky salsa into a restaurant-style salsa. The result?
This is the best homemade salsa and it never last long around here!
Homemade Salsa can be adjusted to your prefered level of spice too, we like to keep ours mild but you can always heat yours up too!
How do you make Restaurant Style Salsa?
It’s so easy to make Homemade Salsa, plus you can easily make extra and keep them in mason jars in the refrigerator until you’re ready to serve them.
Homemade Salsa is made with a few ingredients along with a food processor.
We typically use a can of peeled whole tomatoes; however, you can use garden fresh tomatoes too. We prefer to peel the tomatoes, but it’s not necessary either and can be done without peeling too. If you do use fresh tomatoes, then you may need to add a little bit of water in place of the juice in the canned tomatoes.
If you are using fresh tomatoes, I would add in the water after starting the food processor to see if it’s necessary, it’s going to depend on how juicy the tomatoes are.
- Peeled Whole Tomatoes
- Green Chilies
- White Onion
- Garlic
- Sugar
- Salt
- Cumin
- Cilantro
- Lime
- Jalapeno (Optional)
How do you make Spicy Salsa?
If you want to make your salsa spicy, add additional Jalapeno to it. Garden Fresh Jalapenos can add significant heat to the salsa, so it’s best to add one and try it then add more if preferred.
Should you use a food processor for Restaurant Style Salsa?
The food processor is what will make this salsa smooth like the restaurant.
If you do not want to use a food processor, then you can still make this salsa but it will be chunkier than if you opted to use a food processor.
The ingredients will be tossed in the food processor and then chopped to a smooth consistency.
Now are you ready for this with some tasty chips or maybe even warm tortillas?
Enjoy this Restaurant Style Salsa and eat up!
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Restaurant Style Salsa
Ingredients
- 28 oz Can of Peeled Whole Tomatoes with Juice
- 4 oz Can of Green Chilies Chopped
- 1/4 Cup White Onion Chopped
- 1 Clove of Garlic Crushed
- 1/4 Tsp Sugar
- 1/4 Tsp Salt
- 1/4 Tsp Cumin
- 1/2 Cup Cilantro Chopped
- 1 Lime
- Optional: Red or Green Jalapeno Peppers
Instructions
- In a food processor combine the tomatoes, chilies, onion, garlic, sugar, salt, cumin, and cilantro.
- Then, cut the lime in half and squeeze the juice out over the ingredients.
- At this point also add in your pepper as well if you are using pepper.
- Pulse this in your food process until well pureed.
- This typically makes 4-6 cups of salsa for us and fills a large wide mouth canning jar.
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Susie Chapman says
I would really be interested to know how you can your “Restaurant Salsa”. If we can get the right amount of “heat”, this recipe will truly be our favorite!
Kristy says
We eat ours so fast that I can usually make a big batch then keep it in jars in the fridge for a while before it goes bad. Here is a good article though on canning it especially for longer use… http://www.wikihow.com/Can-Salsa
Terri says
I do not eat onions but I do however like the flavor and cook with onion powder and onion juice, so can I use either of these in this vs the actual onion?
Mommy Hates Cooking says
I would add some onion powder to your taste. You can make the salsa then add that in last to get it to the flavor that you prefer.
Rachelle says
This looks really good! Will try it out, plus the GF oatmeal cookies. Was wondering if you had a restaurant-style refried bean recipe? I would love to find one that tastes like what they serve at the restaurants!
Mommy Hates Cooking says
I haven’t used any recipes for refried beans but did find some at Costco that are really good. I can’t find a link of them to share but they are in the section where the prepared foods are. They have carnitas in the same brand.
Lynne Zemaitis says
This looks delicious, Kristy! I have been wanting to make homemade salsa and you have inspired me to give it a try. I am excited to feature your post at Tuesday Turn About this week. Thank you for sharing!