5 Minute Tomato Salsa Recipe

Tomato Salsa

This is a really easy, rustic way to make delicious Tomato Salsa in 5 minutes. I got fed up of buying shop bought salsas because they just didn't have the freshness, flavour or aroma of freshly made salsa. So I came up with this recipe in my kitchen shortly before cooking chicken fajitas, it made a big difference to the overall flavour of the meal.

If you follow the simple instructions you will have a deliciously fresh, aromatic and rustic salsa to use as a dip or accompaniment.

Salsa Ingredients

To make the serving photographed above:

• 4 ripe Vine Tomatoes
• 1/4 large Onion
• 1 heaped teaspoon Tomato Puree
• 1 level teaspoon Sugar
• 1 tablespoon Olive Oil
• 1 clove Garlic
• 1 teaspoon Coriander (leaves)
• 1 tablespoon Lime Juice
• 1 teaspoon Italian Seasoning (Oregano, Basil, Dried Red Pepper, Marjoram, Thyme, Rosemary, Sage, Parsley)
• 1 level teaspoon English Mustard
• Good pinch of Salt and Black Pepper

Directions:

• Place the Tomatoes in a bowl and pour boiling hot water over them, let them sit for a couple of minutes. This makes the skin really soft and easy to peel from the Tomato flesh.

You Don't Want Skin In Your Salsa

• Prepare the tomatoes by carefully cutting around the green stalk base and removing it. Now pull the loose skin, it will peel without much effort

Easy!

• Chop the Onion and mince the Garlic clove into a bowl, add the peeled Tomatoes

This recipe doesn't require a food processor, but you could use one on a low setting. The idea is not to make the Salsa into a paste, but keep some rustic chunks of tomato to make the texture more interesting.

I use a Potato masher, if the Tomatoes are ripe, it doesn't take more than a minute to get the consistency right.

• Now add the rest of the ingredients and mix well

The Salsa will be amazingly fresh and will taste and smell delicious.

Fresh and Aromatic