La Nortena's Homemade Salsa Recipe

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Ready in: 1-2 hrs
recipe difficulty 3/5

Difficulty: 3 (1=easiest :: hardest=5)

Serves/Makes: 7.5 cup

Ingredients:
1 head garlic
6 ripe tomatoes
6 jalapeno peppers
cooking spray
3 cups tomato juice
1/4 cup fresh lime juice

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Directions:

Preheat oven to 350F.

Remove white papery skin from garlic head (do not peel or separate the cloves). Wrap in foil. Bake at 350F for 1 hour; cool 10 minutes. Separate cloves; squeeze to extract garlic pulp. Discard skins.

Prepare grill or broiler.

Place tomatoes and peppers on a grill rack or broiler pan coated with cooking spray; grill or broil for 15 minutes or until skins are blackened, turning occasionally. Peel tomatoes and peppers.

Place half of garlic pulp, half of tomatoes, and half of peppers in a blender, and process until coarsely chopped. Pour garlic mixture into a bowl. Repeat procedure with remaining garlic pulp, tomatoes, and peppers. Stir tomato juice and lime juice into garlic mixture.

Recipe from La Nortena y Cafe Deluxe in El Paso, TX.

This recipe from CDKitchen for La Nortena's Homemade Salsa serves/makes 7.5 cup

Recipe ID: 89764

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