Fresh Homemade Salsa

We love growing our own tomatoes every summer and one of the best parts of homegrown tomatoes is homemade salsa! I've used this basic recipe for a couple of years now, but this year I added the freshly squeezed lime juice. The recipe immediately went from okay to excellent. Enjoy!

Fresh Salsa

6 tomatoes (go ahead and leave skins on. More or less is okay - for less runny salsa use Roma Tomatoes)
1 med. onion (pick your favorite kind - purple, Spanish, yellow, sweet, etc)
3 cloves fresh garlic (it must be fresh)
1/2 green pepper
1/2 red pepper
2 T. fresh squeezed lime juice (about 1 lime's worth)
2 tsp. sugar
1 jalapeno
bunch of cilantro (how much depends on your liking to it)
salt and pepper to taste

I always hand chop the tomatoes because food processors make them too mushy. Everything else I chop with a food processor (onion, garlic, peppers & cilantro). Mix it all together and dig in! Great with chips or on Mexican food.


Try different varieties of peppers - banana, Anaheim, Chile peppers, whatever you like. For very mild salsa leave out the jalapeno or take out the seeds first. For hotter salsa add more hot peppers. If you don't like chunky salsa, blend it all in a blender until smooth. As you can see from the picture, we like very chunky salsa. :)