I was checking the ingredients on store-bought salsa and, besides the usual tomatoes, onions, garlic, bell peppers, and cilantro, the two main flavor ingredients are salt and sugar. I taste-tested a few of these, one with less salt, the other with less sugar (hard to find one with less of both); and decided I could do better. I can, and it's easy. But I got a good idea from the store-bought salsa, and that is to add a fruit of some sort to sweeten it up, since I don't use salt. I'm sure there are lots you could use, but I found grapes work great. Mango would probably be good too.
Ingredients:
1 can tomatoes (no salt)
a little bit of chopped red onion
a little bit of got pepper, or I just use a little chipotle powder
cilantro if you like it
bell pepper (any color) if you happen to have one around
a handful of grapes, chopped
anything else you think would be good
Combine it into a bowl, stir, serve. It tastes as good or better after sitting for a while in the fridge but is good at any point.
Yesterday's version before stirring: tomatoes, orange bell pepper, cilantro, red onion, grapes, chipotle powder:
after stirring:
today's version--can tomatoes, cilantro, grapes, some chopped yellow tomato (didn't have bell peppers), chipotle powder:
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