Homemade Salsa with Hot Peppers

Homemade salsa is easy to make using fresh tomatoes. Layering in a variety of hot peppers gives you a salsa that is full of bold flavor, all made with just a few simple ingredients—no need to even seed the tomatoes! Serve as a dip with chips or as a topping for tacos.

Course Appetizers

Cuisine American

Diet Vegetarian

Recipe Type Camping, Cinco de Mayo, Dips, Garden Harvest, Healthy Choices, Jalapeño, Sauces, Spicy, Summer, Vegetarian

Skill Level Easy

Prep Time 20

Cook Time 10

Total Time 30

Servings Servings

Calories 49kcal

Author Angela G.

Equipment

quart-sized mason jar

Ingredients

8 large tomatoes
1 large onion white or yellow
2 jalapeño peppers
2 ghost pepper
2 banana peppers
1 teaspoon salt
1-2 tablespoon sugar to taste

Instructions

Shock and peel tomatoes. Bring a large pot of water to a boil. Then fill a large pitcher with water and ice.
Place 3-4 tomatoes in the pot of boiling water. After about 1 minute, remove them with a strainer or tongs and place them in the pitcher of ice water.
Remove tomatoes from ice water after about a minute. Skin will have separated from the meat of the tomato and will peel right off.
Remove all the skin and dice. At this point you may choose to seed the tomatoes or not. Simply cut away the seeds if you choose to remove them.
Place peeled and diced tomatoes in a new large pot and turn heat to medium-low. Repeat this process with the remainder of tomatoes.
Dice onion and add to the pot of tomatoes.
Dice jalapeno, banana and ghost peppers. (Use gloves if desired)
Add diced peppers to pot of tomatoes.
Add salt and sugar and let simmer for about 15-25 minutes depending on how crunchy or soft you want your peppers and onions.
Transfer to a quart-sized Mason jar and store in the fridge.

Notes

Spicy peppers contain oils that can stay on your hands even after you wash them If you later touch your eye or other sensitive body parts, this can cause discomfort. To avoid this, simply wear latex gloves while you handle the peppers.
You may choose to leave the seeds of the peppers in if you like more heat. Removing the pepper seeds removes more heat.

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