Fire Roasted Salsa Recipes

FIRE ROASTED SALSA

Steps:

• If you are grilling, get your grates hot and scrape them clean. Place your onions and tomatoes cut side down on the grill. Place the chiles and garlic cloves on the grill, too. If you are broiling, arrange everything on a baking sheet, cut side up.
• Let the onions and tomatoes grill a solid 5 minutes before trying to move them. You want significant blackening. Turn the garlic cloves as the peel blackens, and rotate the chiles so their skins blacken. Remove the garlic when several sides of the cloves have some char, when the skins of the chiles are well blackened, when both cut sides of the onion quarters are charred, and when the cut face of the tomatoes are well blackened. You will want to use a thin metal spatula to do this. If you are broiling, simply wait until you get good char on most of the vegetables.
• Put the chiles into a plastic bag to steam. Chop the onion roughly. Peel the garlic and if the cloves are large, chop into a few pieces. Remove the skins from the tomatoes. After 10 minutes or so, peel the chiles with the back of a butter knife, then open them up and scrape away their seeds. Chop them roughly.
• If you are grinding your salsa in a molcajete, add the salt, oregano and garlic and pound to a paste. Add the onion bit by bit, grinding and pounding all the way. Next comes the chiles, then the tomatoes. Finally, grind in the chopped herbs into the salsa. If you are not using a molcajete, simply put everything into a food processor and blitz it a few times. You want this salsa to have some texture. Add salt if you need it, and you are good to go.

FIRE-ROASTED SALSA

Steps:

• In a food processor, combine the tomatoes, onion, cilantro, lime juice, sugar and salt. Cover and process until desired consistency.

AUTHENTIC FIRE-ROASTED TEX-MEX SALSA

Steps:

• Set an oven rack about 6 inches from the heat source and preheat the oven's broiler to high.
• Spray a 9x13-inch glass casserole dish with cooking spray. Arrange tomatoes in the prepared dish with cut sides down. Add onion and jalapeno.
• Broil until tomato skins are blackened and blistered, 10 to 15 minutes. Remove onion and jalapeno halfway through cooking time, once skins are slightly softened.
• Combine broiled vegetables in a blender; add cilantro, lime juice, and 1 teaspoon garlic salt. Pulse until smooth. Taste and season with remaining garlic salt as desired.

FIRE ROASTED TOMATO BLENDER SALSA

Steps:

• In this order, put the cilantro, tomatoes, garlic, jalapeno, onion, lime juice and 1 1/2 teaspoons salt in a blender. Pulse until broken down but still chunky, scraping the inside of the carafe as necessary.

FIRE-ROASTED CORN SALSA

Steps:

• Combine tomatoes, onion, cilantro, lime juice, and cumin in a large bowl.
• Preheat an outdoor grill to medium heat and lightly oil the grate.
• Coat corn and jalapeno peppers with olive oil.
• Place corn and jalapenos on the preheated grill and cook, turning every 3 minutes, until corn is charred, about 15 minutes total. Transfer to a cutting board and let cool 5 minutes.
• Dice jalapenos and cut corn kernels from the cob. Add jalapenos and corn kernels to the bowl of tomato-onion mixture; stir until well combined. Season with salt and pepper.

FIRE-ROASTED GARLIC SALSA

Steps:

• Fire up the grill, a gas burner, or even the broiler. Set the tomatoes directly over or under the heat source and cook, turning often, til the skins just blacken. Peel, cut out the stems, and then cut them in half around their equators. Take each half tomato in your fist and give it a squeeze over a bowl to get rid of the seeds and juice. Dice the flesh and put it in a clean bowl.
• Squeeze the garlic cloves out of their skins, add a pinch of salt, and mash to a paste. Mix into the tomatoes along with the remaining 2 teaspoons salt and the onions, jalapeños, lime juice, cilantro, honey, pepper, and Tabasco. Purée half the salsa in the work bowl of a food processor. Stir the puréed and chunky salsas together.
• Heap the salsa in a bowl and serve with tortilla chips.

FIRE ROASTED SALSA (MáS SALSA POR FAVOR)

Steps:

• I think Plum and Roma tomatoes are the same thing. We call them "Roma" in Texas.
• Fire up the outdoor grill. If you use propane make a boat out of foil to place dry wood chips into.
• Clean and prepare vegetables for grilling.
• When the grill is hot place wood over coals or gas flame.
• Replace grate.
• Place tomatoes, jalapenos and onions on a hot grill - over hot coals, not high flames.
• Pile cilantro on top, so that it does not touch the grill.
• Place lid on grill.
• Lightly blacken all on both sides. 10 to 15 minutes per side.
• Remove cilantro and jalapeno stems.
• For milder version remove jalapeno seeds.
• Place jalapeno peppers, 1/2 of the chipotles and 1/2 the adobe sauce, tomatoes, onions and cilantro and pulse in a food processor (I use a manual Ultimate Chopper) until just coarsely chopped.
• Transfer to a bowl, add remaining ingredients and mix well.
• Makes about 4 pounds. I usually keep a pound to eat within a week and separate the remaining into 1 pound units and freeze. Try it warm with chips. I tried this with chicken breast and it was wonderful. Just brown the breast, cover with sauce and simmer for 15 to 20 minutes.

FIRE-ROASTED PEPPER SALSA

Steps:

• Place the peppers (including the jalapeno) over direct heat. Turn them constantly with long-handled tongs, one after the next, for 3 minutes. Remove the peppers from the coals to a brown paper lunch bag to cool for 10 minutes.
• When the peppers are cooled, remove them from the bag. Rinse the peppers under cold running water and dry. Remove and discard the pepper stems, seeds, and any blackened skin that is peeling off. Dice peppers, combine with the remaining ingredients in a bowl, stir together, and eat as you see fit.

FIRE-ROASTED TOMATO SALSA

Steps:

• Grill tomatoes and jalapeno, covered, over medium-hot heat for 8-12 minutes or until skins are blistered and blackened, turning occasionally. Immediately place in a large bowl; cover and let stand for 20 minutes., Peel off and discard charred skins. Discard stem and seeds from jalapeno; cut tomatoes into fourths. Set jalapeno and tomatoes aside. , Place the cilantro, onions and garlic in a food processor; cover and process until blended. Add the chipotle pepper, tomatoes and jalapeno; cover and pulse until blended., Transfer to a large bowl; stir in the chilies, lime juice, oil and salt. Cover and refrigerate for at least 1 hour. Serve with chips.