Step by step preparation of Indian style Mexican spicy salsa dip / Homemade fresh tomato salsa. Enjoy this delicious sugar and oil-free salsa dip with corn chips, tortillas or any other of your favourite chips.

What is salsa

Salsa is a tomato-based sauce used as a condiment mainly in Mexican American food, serve as a dip with tortillas chips or corn chips. It can be made in both raw and cooked form. Raw salsa is made fresh and consumes immediately. On the other hand, cooked salsa has a longer shelf-life and can be stored for few days in the refrigerator. It may be mild to very spicy depends upon the type of chilli used in the making of the sauce. Salsa has a tangy flavour due to the presence of tomatoes.

Mexican food taste is much similar to Indian food and I am also a big fan of Mexican food. I like a burrito in a bowl, taco, tortilla chips with salsa and Mexican bean rice dishes very much. When I was in the USA, my favourite place to eat out used to be the Qdoba Mexican grill. Their food has a spicy and tangy flavour as the Indian dishes do.

Here, I am sharing with you a fresh salsa recipe that requires no cooking. You can also try my other chutney and dip recipes

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How to make fresh salsa at home

Fresh tomato salsa is a quick and easy recipe ready in under 5 minutes. It works perfectly both as a dip or as a side dish. To make fresh salsa, we need to transfer chopped tomato, onion, jalapeno, coriander leaves, salt and lemon juice in a mixer grinder and grind it up to 2 pulses. Healthy, delicious fresh salsa dip is ready to enjoy with corn chips or nacho chips.

Homemade salsa can be used as a dip for chips and nachos, baked or hash potatoes, salad or can be served as a condiment with pizza topping, sandwiches, pasta, Mexican burritos, tacos and even with Mexican rice. They are also stirred in soups and stews to flavour them.

Try this easy and delicious dip and enjoy with your favourite chips. This dip recipe can add magic to any boring dish.

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Health benefits of eating salsa

• Salsa is a healthy addition to a balanced diet. It is low in calories without any fat or sugar content. Ingredients used in the making of salsa are a rich source of various essential vitamins and minerals. Tomatoes, jalapeno and coriander leaves contain vitamins A and C. tomatoes also contribute potassium and lycopene which acts as anti-carcinogenic.
• Full of fibre and low in calories they help in stabilizing sugar in the blood and good for diabetics.
• It contains high content of water and provides hydration
• Raw salsa dip is good for health as it contains Vitamin C that prevents heart and skin diseases and also good for healthy ageing. While after cooking some nutrients are lost raw food maintains them.

Step by step preparation of Indian style Mexican spicy salsa

1. Firstly, roughly chop tomatoes, onion, pepper, and coriander leaves. Collect in a bowl. Now transfer them into a mixer grinder, add salt, cumin seeds powder, black pepper powder and lemon juice.

Grind it up to 2-3 pulse. It should be a coarse mixture, not a fine paste.

Transfer to a serving bowl and enjoy.

It should be consumed immediately. Can’t be stored for a longer time.

Serving suggestions

Fresh tomato salsa served as a dip with nacho chips or corn chip. It also goes well as a side dish with pizza, hashed potatoes, pasta, soups and stews.

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Tips and tricks

1. Use well ripen, nice red colour tomatoes give a nice colour and juicy texture to the sauce. I have used Bombay tomatoes, while in the Mexican recipe, they use Roma tomatoes.
2. I have added green coriander leaves as a herb but can replace it with other herbs like parsley, mint, oregano and basil as per your taste.
3. Do not grind it to a fine paste, it tastes better when it is a little coarse and chunky.  

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