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Chi Chi's Salsa
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The key to Chi Chi's salsa isn't some secret recipe, it's just good tomatoes. Blending ripe tomatoes just for a second yields a uniformly chopped salsa, perfect for scooping up with tortilla chips.
serves/makes:
ready in:
under 30 minutes
under 30 minutes
5 reviews
ingredients
1 can (14 ounce size) stewed tomatoes, chopped
2 green onions, diced
2 ripe tomatoes, diced
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon black pepper
1 dash Tabasco sauce
directions
Combine the stewed tomatoes, green onions, fresh tomatoes, salt, and pepper in a saucepan. Bring to a boil for 1 minute. Remove the pan from the heat.
Add half of the salsa to a blender. Puree until almost smooth. Return to the saucepan. Add tabasco to taste.
Let the salsa cool completely and refrigerate for at least 1 hour before serving. Can be stored in an airtight container for up to 2 weeks or freeze up to 4 months.
nutrition data
94 calories, 3 grams fat, 17 grams carbohydrates, 3 grams protein per serving. This recipe is low in fat.
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reviews & comments
September 27, 2014
Used all fresh tomatoes instead of some stewed. Fantastic! Not spicy but you can addd more tabasco or some garlic to dress it up if you needed to. I left it plain as we had some kiddos eating it.
September 2, 2014
Loved this salsa! I don't like spicy salsa and this was perfect. My bf added extra tabasco to his to give it heat.
July 26, 2013
This was ok but I didn't care for the consistency. Maybe keep the fresh tomatoes out before pureeing and then add it back to the pan and heat the puree with the added fresh tomatoes? I think it was the consistency of the stewed tomatoes that I didn't like. Perhaps if you have to use some canned then regular diced would be better. I don't recall Chi Chi's salsa having any of the large goopy pieces of stewed tomatoes in it like that.
April 7, 2006
it was excellent as if you got it from chi chi's it's just that good
June 28, 2004
This Chi Chi's salsa recipe listed for the 'hot' salsa is not correct. Well perhaps it is right for the jarred stuff, but what they serve in the restaurant does not have any stewed or otherwise cooked tomatos. It's all fresh crisp veggies - my guess is that it's diced tomato, diced onions, lots of celantro (no doubt in their recipe, but not in this one) real peppers (maybe some tobasco) and salt, no pepper. I imagine that the recipe here is close to the mild salsa, but wouldn't even visually resemble the hot from across the room.
This isn't their hot salsa (and it's not listed as such)