Blistered Tomato Salsa

Name: Blistered Tomato Salsa
Yield: makes about 2 cups
Ingredients: 12 plum tomatoes, cored; 1 large white onion, chopped; 2 garlic cloves, minced; 1 tablespoon pure chile powder, like ancho or New Mexico, or to taste; Salt to taste; 1 cup chopped fresh cilantro leaves

December 14, 2011

If you can grill the tomatoes for this salsa—especially over wood—so much the better. But you can broil or even pan-grill them, and the salsa will still be good, as long as you make sure they blacken a bit. This makes a wonderful all-purpose condiment, and a great salsa for burritos and tacos; it’s also fabulous used in an omelet or scrambled eggs.

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