Easy & Fresh Homemade Salsa

My favorite snack of all time is chips and salsa! Everytime I go to the grocery store I buy at least two different kinds to try! Over the summer I became a little obsessed with finding the perfect homemade salsa recipe. And I learned that it is impossible to nail down the perfect amount of ingredients! Vegetable are not constant, sometimes they have more or less flavor and sometime they are bigger or smaller, sometimes jalapeños are a lot more spicy, or sometimes they aren't spicy at all!

I do think I figured out a somewhat foolproof way of making your salsa perfect every time. The trick is to go slow, start with just a few ingredients at a time. 

I always start with a can of diced tomatoes as well as one roma tomato. I like to use both diced and fresh because it tastes fresh but creamy that way. I then add about a quarter onion, and a quarter jalapeño as well as a clove of garlic. I then use my handy dandy cuisinart to blend it all together. I like my salsa really smooth without a lot of chunky vegetables. After I process it I taste it! I like to taste test it before adding the lime and cilantro because you can really taste the levels of the other vegetables.

This is where it gets tricky, I can't tell you how much of the other things I add again because everytime it's different. I use tomatoes to tone down the heat, jalapeño for more heat and garlic and onion to amp up the flavor. After I get the right balance I add a handful of cilantro and a spritz of lime. I then process again and test again and add more cilantro and lime as needed. 

I know it sounds like a long process but the end result is totally worth it!!!