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Homemade Restaurant Style Salsa

January 26, 2017 by Modern Honey 6 Comments

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Homemade Restaurant Style Salsa. Fresh salsa made with fresh tomatoes, cilantro, green onion, jalapeno, and a secret ingredient! www.modernhoney.com

Homemade Restaurant Style Salsa

Fresh salsa made with the freshest of ingredients — tomatoes, cilantro, jalapeno, green onions, and a secret ingredient makes this homemade salsa taste like it’s from an authentic Mexican restaurant!

Homemade Restaurant Style Salsa. Fresh salsa made with fresh tomatoes, cilantro, green onion, jalapeno, and a secret ingredient! www.modernhoney.com

Everyone needs a solid salsa recipe.  A tried and true homemade salsa recipe that will be the ultimate crowd pleaser.

My husband could eat chips and salsa for every single meal. He used to go to restaurants and bring home salsa in large styrofoam containers. It was super pricey! I decided that 8 bucks for a pint of salsa was ridiculous and wanted to create my own Homemade Restaurant Style Salsa.

He hasn’t gone back since.

Homemade Restaurant Style Salsa with a secret ingredient. www.modernhoney.com

This recipe costs less than $2-3 to make, depending on the price of produce where you live. Did you know a jalapeno usually costs about 4 cents each?  That is crazy! Plus it’s made with all of the fresh ingredients and you know exactly where they came from!

Homemade Restaurant Style Salsa with a secret ingredient. www.modernhoney.com

The key to this salsa is the combination of fresh ingredients such as vibrant roma tomatoes, fresh cilantro, green onions, jalapenos, and a secret ingredient. I found that white or yellow onions can overpower the salsa and heaven forbid you to get so lucky to pick a strong one that makes you shed major tears.

We tried this salsa with green onions and loved the subtle flavor it gave the salsa without being too overpowering. There were no tears in the house using green onions!

Homemade Restaurant Style Salsa with a secret ingredient. www.modernhoney.com

Now there’s a secret ingredient in this Homemade Restaurant Style Salsa that sets it apart. My sister-in-law (hi Sarah!) told me this secret and it is a huge difference-maker in this salsa.

It’s in a little yellow can and it’s called El Pato Salsa de Chile Fresco. It’s only about 59 cents and gives such a rich depth of flavor to this fresh salsa. It can be found in the Mexican food aisle of all major grocery stores.

Since my husband requests this salsa so often, I finally showed him how to make it. Now he is officially obsessed. He runs to the store 1-2 times per week to whip up batches for the week. As soon as he walks in the door from work, he pulls out his chips and salsa and eats his appetizer before dinner.

This recipe is super simple and can be whipped up in a food processor in less than 5 minutes.

Homemade Restaurant Style Salsa. Fresh salsa made with fresh tomatoes, cilantro, green onion, jalapeno, and a secret ingredient! www.modernhoney.com

4.5 from 2 votes
Homemade Restaurant Style Salsa with a secret ingredient. www.modernhoney.com
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Homemade Restaurant Style Salsa
Prep Time
10 mins
Total Time
10 mins
 
Homemade Restaurant Style Salsa with a simple secret ingredient that sets it apart!
Course: Salsa
Cuisine: Mexican
Keyword: homemade salsa
Servings: 12
Calories: 11 kcal
Author: Melissa Stadler, Modern Honey
Ingredients
  • 10 Roma Tomatoes
  • 1 cup Fresh Cilantro Leaves (about 1 bunch of cilantro, tightly packed, about 3/4 bunch of cilantro leaves)
  • 1 Jalapeno deseeded*
  • 1 teaspoon Garlic Salt or to taste
  • 4 Green Onions sliced
  • (1) 7.75 ounce can El Pato Salsa de Chile Fresco
Instructions
  1. Combine the tomatoes, cilantro, jalapeno, and garlic salt in a blender or food processor.
  2. Stir in sliced green onions and el pato sauce.
  3. Taste and season accordingly.
  4. Refrigerate the salsa for at least an hour to give time for flavors to develop.
  5. *May use 1/2 jalapeno if you want a mild salsa. Most of the heat is located in the seeds and inner membrane. Remove those for a mild flavor. If you like heat, add the entire jalapeno!
Nutrition Facts
Homemade Restaurant Style Salsa
Amount Per Serving
Calories 11
% Daily Value*
Sodium 197mg9%
Potassium 140mg4%
Carbohydrates 2g1%
Sugar 1g1%
Vitamin A 575IU12%
Vitamin C 9.6mg12%
Calcium 9mg1%
Iron 0.2mg1%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

I hope you love this Homemade Restaurant Style Salsa as much as we do! Thanks for all of the love and support. Have a great day, my friends!

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Comments

  1. Judy says

    May 29, 2019 at 12:24 PM

    5 stars
    I just made this for a Mexican-themed weekly family dinner. I’m not a cilantro fan and was skeptical at the amount of cilantro. You win. It is perfect & SO delicious. I was also skeptical at a 10 minute prep time. But it was that quick & easy. I know I’ll be making this frequently. Thanks!

    Reply
  2. Janet Spriet says

    September 3, 2019 at 6:35 PM

    I was just wondering if you can freeze this salsa ok. I wanted to make a large batch.
    Thank you

    Reply
  3. Megan says

    September 11, 2019 at 7:33 AM

    I have early girl and big boy tomatoes could I use those instead of the Roma?

    Reply
  4. britt says

    May 10, 2020 at 4:40 PM

    4 stars
    Delish. I was planning to make half batch— so I only used 5 Roma tomatoes, but ended up using about the same of all the rest of the ingredients (including the whole can of the el pato sauce!) and I used fresh garlic and regular salt rather than garlic salt and my oh my this was DELISH!

    I blended it all together with my immersion blender then added in the chopped green onions. it left me with the perfect consistency for my kinda salsa. Thank you!

    Reply
  5. Julie says

    July 21, 2020 at 12:34 PM

    Hello, can this recipe be canned?

    Reply
  6. Lel says

    August 17, 2020 at 4:35 PM

    Anyone can in hot water bath?

    Reply

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