Smoky chipotle pepper salsa
Cooking time
Prep: 10 mins Cook: 12 minsSkill level
EasyServings
Serves 6Take a little pot of salsa in your lunchbox to enjoy with vegetable crudités, tortilla chips or pitta bread
Nutrition and extra info
Additional info
- Vegetarian
- Vegan
- Healthy
Nutrition per serving
- kcalories
- 55
- protein
- 2g
- carbs
- 8g
- fat
- 2g
- saturates
- 0g
- fibre
- 2g
- sugar
- 7g
- salt
- 0.06g
Ingredients
- 2 red peppers, halved lengthways
- 6 ripe tomatoes, halved
- 1 garlic clove, crushed
- juice 1 lime
- 1 tbsp extra-virgin olive oil
- 2 tsp chipotle paste
- 1 red onion, finely chopped
- 20g pack coriander, roughly chopped
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Method
- Heat grill to high. Put peppers onto a baking sheet, skin-side up, grill until skins are black, then put into a bowl and cover. Leave until cool, then peel skins away.
- Scoop out and discard tomato seeds. Put tomatoes into a food processor with garlic, lime juice, oil and chipotle paste. Add peppers, then pulse until chunky. Stir onion and coriander through, then serve.
Recipe from Good Food magazine, July 2010
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Comments
Beautiful! I only made this to mix 2 spoons worth through a mexican burger I was making - we demolished the leftovers with some plain crisps - it was soooooo tasty! Didnt have lime juice or coriander so used lemon juice and basil. Delish! Excellent! Making again next weekend with a platter of nibbles to scoop it up with! Hubby loved it and asked me to make it again today! Will never buy shop bought salsa again!
I like a few of you fellow foodies have found it dificult to get my hands on the Chipotle paste, but I do have an alternitive way to get something similar to the taste. I bye the long red chillys you can get your hands on in most suppermarkets. simply roast these off with the red peppers and tomatoes, then skin them if you wish but i leave the seeds in for the "heat" kick. Hope this helps.
We are big fans of Chipotle here in the office. We have a lovely Chipotle chilli sauce http://www.healthysupplies.co.uk/cholula-chipotle-hot-sauce.html
But this salsa looks just as delicious!
Really yummy recipe which never seems to last long on the table - good job it only takes minutes to make more! Chipotle en adobo (chipotle paste) can also be found on-line on Mex Grocer website - they also stock a wide range of other mexican food goodies too. Also really great to use to make nachos with tortilla chips and cheese.
Yummie -
I asked a guy in a chilli farm about chipotle chillis as I hadn't seen any seeds/etc to be able to grow them. Apparently it's not a type of chilli, but at the end of the season when there are red jalapeno chillis left over and they're no longer in tip top form, they are smoked. So, they tend to be dried and brown.
Hope this helps.
Ceals
Thomas1 - the one I have is part of the 'Discovery' range and I found it in Waitrose.
The recipe is fab... as DGrant said you definitely need to deseed the tomatoes otherwise it does go too watery. Also I would suggest cutting everything up rather than blitzing it, otherwise you may end up with a puree if your not too careful!