Chunky Salsa Recipe

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This Chunky Salsa recipe packs a big punch of flavor with minimal ingredients. Prepared with chunky vegetables and robust seasonings, this quick and easy salsa recipe is sure to bring some heat to your next meal. Enjoy as a dip or top off your favorite tacos for a tasty, zesty meal.

Easy Homemade Salsa

Chunky Salsa Recipe

Are you ready for a life changing event? I am talking about salsa.

Robust, flavorful, knock your sandals off salsa!! An easy homemade chunky salsa recipe that you can whip up in under 5 minutes that will blow that jar stuff out of the water!!  Are we on the same page now?

This is by far my favorite homemade salsa recipe and the salsa that I am commissioned to make weekly now that summer is here.

Forget that store bought stuff, this chunky salsa recipe is all you will ever need!

Easy Homemade Salsa in a bowl

Why this homemade salsa is the BEST

  • This easy chunky salsa is ready in 5 minutes. Seriously!! Fresh homemade salsa vs salsa from a jar in the time it takes you to grab your pool floaties.
  • Fresh ingredients!! This quick and easy salsa is all about the freshies but since you are grabbing a can of fire roasted tomatoes, you never have to worry about what is in season or what isn’t. This salsa is good to go whenever YOU are!
  • Easy to tweak based on your families preferences. Want more garlic.. (yes, please!) .. go for it! Want it a bit sweeter? Sure thing! This easy salsa recipe is here for YOU.
  • My friends, salsa is not just for chips. Salsa is also a great topper for scrambled eggs, tacos, quesadillas, chicken breasts, nachos .. the possibilities are endless!!

Homemade Salsa Ingredients

Let’s take a minute to go over what ingredients you will need to make this easy salsa recipe:

  • Fire roasted dice tomatoes
  • Rotel tomatoes with green chilis
  • Red onion
  • Cilantro
  • Jalapeno pepper
  • Garlic
  • Limes
  • Seasonings
  • Sugar

How to make the BEST Homemade Salsa

To make this Chunky Salsa, add garlic, onion, cilantro and jalapeno peppers to food processor and pulse until chopped small or to desired size.

Add in tomatoes, spices and lime juice and use short quick pulses until reaching your desired consistency.

Pour into a large serving bowl and serve immediately or refrigerate to chill. Garnish with fresh cilantro

My friends, life gets no easier than THAT!!!!  In the time it took you to read the instructions … BOOM! .. salsa is ready!!

Five minutes and you are chowing down on the best homemade salsa you will ever have.

This recipe is robust and fresh and chunky and spicy but not too spicy perfection and when you add the lime juice it just screams bright and festive!!

Now THAT was a run on sentence and I know that but it all needed to be said at once 🙂

Easy Homemade Salsa in a yellow bowl

FESTIVE!!!!!  FESTIVE MEANS IT’S PARTY TIME!

Grab your margarita and your bowl of chips and get ready to start the Chunky Salsa dance party!!  

Do you have any idea how jealous your neighbors will be when they see you throwing epic gatherings every weekend?  Is it your witty banter? .. your perfectly organized home?  .. your adorable children??

NOOOO!!!  It’s your amazing Easy Homemade Salsa recipe that will have them blocking your driveway with cars and causing a traffic jam in the cul de sac.

By the way, the neighbors? ..  be nice, invite them over too 🙂

Pro Tips for the Perfect Salsa

  • When it comes to party food, salsa is a must have. Always make more than you think you will need 🙂
  • Salsa lasts about a week in a sealed container in the fridge.
  • Watch your food processor bursts. Ingredients can go from fat and chunky to a puree in the blink of an eye. Short little bursts.
  • If chunky is not your thing, turn those short little food processor bursts a bit longer for a thinner more restaurant-style salsa.
  • Can’t find a can of the fire-roasted tomatoes at the grocery store? No worries, grab a can of regular diced tomatoes and it will still be delicious 🙂
  • If you prefer a more mild salsa, cut back a bit on the red onion, garlic and jalapeno peppers. They each bring a different level of zing to this salsa recipe so go lighter on those ingredients until you find your perfect ratio. You can always add more to a recipe, near impossible to take some out.
  • If you do not own a food processor, no worries!!! You can either pop this all in your blender (use that pulse button) or you can break out your big chefs knife and start dicing and chopping your ingredients… this is chunky style, after all.

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ENJOY ♥ HEATHER

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Easy Homemade Salsa from the top

Chunky Salsa Recipe

Easy Homemade Salsa
This Chunky Salsa recipe packs a big punch of flavor with minimal ingredients. Prepared with chunky vegetables and robust seasonings, this quick and easy salsa recipe is sure to bring some heat to your next meal. Enjoy as a dip or top off your favorite tacos for a tasty, zesty meal.
Heather - A Wicked Whisk
Prep Time 5 minutes
Total Time 5 minutes
Serving Size 12

Ingredients

  • 15 ounce can fire roasted diced tomatoes
  • 10 ounce can Rotel tomatoes with green chilis
  • 1/4 red onion diced
  • 1/4 cup cilantro small diced
  • 2 jalapeno peppers seeds and ribs removed, diced
  • 4 garlic cloves diced
  • 2 limes juiced
  • 1/2 teaspoon cumin
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1/2 teaspoon fresh ground black pepper
  • 1/2 teaspoon sugar
  • 1/2 teaspoon chili powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon smoked paprika

Instructions

  • Add garlic, onion, cilantro and jalapeno peppers to food processor and pulse until chopped small or to desired size.
  • Add in tomatoes, spices and lime juice and pulse to desired consistency.
  • Pour into a large serving bowl and serve immediately or refrigerate to chill.
  • Garnish with fresh cilantro

Notes

Pro Tips for the Perfect Salsa

  • When it comes to party food, salsa is a must have. Always make more than you think you will need 🙂
  • Salsa lasts about a week in a sealed container in the fridge.
  • Watch your food processor bursts. Ingredients can go from fat and chunky to a puree in the blink of an eye. Short little bursts.
  • If chunky is not your thing, turn those short little food processor bursts a bit longer for a thinner more restaurant-style salsa.
  • Can't find a can of the fire-roasted tomatoes at the grocery store? No worries, grab a can of regular diced tomatoes and it will still be delicious 🙂
  • If you prefer a more mild salsa, cut back a bit on the red onion, garlic and jalapeno peppers. They each bring a different level of zing to this salsa recipe so go lighter on those ingredients until you find your perfect ratio. You can always add more to a recipe, near impossible to take some out.
  • If you do not own a food processor, no worries!!! You can either pop this all in your blender (use that pulse button) or you can break out your big chefs knife and start dicing and chopping your ingredients... this is chunky style, after all.

Nutrition

Serving: 24g | Calories: 14kcal | Carbohydrates: 4g | Protein: 0.5g | Fat: 0.13g | Saturated Fat: 0.03g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.07g | Monounsaturated Fat: 0.03g | Cholesterol: 0.51mg | Sodium: 104mg | Potassium: 115mg | Fiber: 0.9g | Sugar: 2g | Vitamin C: 21.5mg | Calcium: 120mg | Iron: 0.1mg
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    1. Chris, salsa has not always been kind to me. We have broken up a few times … I am historically a strong spicer and salsa does not like to have 3/4 of an onion added to it… or 8 cloves of garlic at one time… haha… coming up with this recipe was definitely a labor of love but I think salsa and I will stay together this time 🙂

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