Casera Sauce (Salsa Casera)
- Ready In:
- 15mins
- Ingredients:
- 9
- Yields:
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2 cups
ingredients
- 2 medium tomatoes, finely chopped
- 1 medium onion, chopped (about 1/2 cup)
- 1 small garlic clove, finely chopped
- 1 canned jalapeno pepper, seeded and finely chopped
- 1 tablespoon cilantro (or more)
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- 1 1⁄2 teaspoons vegetable oil
- 1⁄2 teaspoon dried Mexican oregano (regular will do)
- 1⁄2 teaspoon bottled hot sauce
directions
- Mix all ingredients. Cover and refrigerate in glass or plastic container.
- Refrigerate no longer than 7 days.
- Note: you will know when the sauce is starting to go bad on you. Put your ear to the opened container, if it's going bad it will "talk to you", you'll hear something like Rice Krispies snapping and popping. Weird as it sounds, it's true!
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Reviews
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Amost all salsa recipes contain Cumin - a spice I'm not fond of. This one is perfect with the right amount of spicyness and bite. Only thing I did different is add salt. (Hope my doctor isn't reading this.) Use Louisiana brand bottled hot sauce or Tapatio brand. Tabasco imparts it's own "aged" flavor that I think does not go well with a fresh salsa like this.
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Ok Fluffster, You have my attention! Great sauce. I did not have have canned jalapeno peppers but I did have canned dice green chiles and everything else including the bottled hot sauce, we have Tabasco brand and Louisiana, both hot and delicious so that is what was substituted. Both son and hubby gobbled this sauce and loved it!
RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
FLUFFSTER
Bullhead City, Arizona
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My beloved husband, Tom, passed away 3 years ago. My world stopped. It's taken me all this time to find my way back to life without him.
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We moved from Las Vegas, Nevada to Bullhead City, Az. in February, and we love it here.
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Cooking is my passion, and I am slowly, but surely beginning to venture into the world of baking. To me, cooking is so much easier because baking is so much more exact.
I love to make Italian and Mexican food the best, followed by Chinese and last, but by far the least, good old American food! How can you beat chicken fried steak, mashed potatoes and gravy?? I love to find several recipes and put my own spin on them and create a new recipe.