Easy Homemade Salsa

Homemade salsa on a wooden platter with tortilla chips

Make your salsa at home with this easy homemade salsa recipe. Made with just 8 ingredients and in under 5 minutes, you'll never need to buy your salsa at the store again.

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Prep Time: 5 minutes

Total Time: 5 minutes

Servings: people

Calories: 13kcal

Author: Sarah McMinn

Ingredients

2 (14 oz) cans diced tomatoes, no salt added
½ cup red or white onion, roughly chopped
½ cup cilantro, roughly chopped
2 cloves garlic
1 jalapeño, seeded and chopped
juice of 2 limes
1 teaspoon salt
½ teaspoon cumin
½ teaspoon sugar

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Instructions

Combine all the ingredients in a food processor or blender and blend until it resembles your favorite restaurant-style salsa, between 30-60 seconds.
Taste to adjust seasonings.
Serve with your favorite chips or store in an airtight container until ready to use.

Notes

Serve and Storing - Store this salsa as part of your game day spread, with vegan nachos, quesadillas, or as a simple snack with corn chips. Store leftover salsa in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to 7 days.

Make in Advance - This spicy salsa recipe will get better 24-48 hours after it's made. Allowing the salsa to cool down and let the flavors marinate into one another gives you a deeper tasting salsa that you are going to love. You can make this salsa up to 3 days in advance without compromising on taste and texture.

Variations

For spicy salsa, store the salsa with half a jalapeño pepper. As it sits, the flavors will absorb into the salsa for a delightfully hot and spicy salsa recipe.
If it's the height of the tomato season, feel free to use fresh tomatoes. You will need about 2 pounds of fresh tomatoes.

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