Sundried Tomatoes Salsa

I made this Salsa for a party and forgot to take pics : ( 
As you all know I take lot of pics and post step by step instructions with pics. The salsa was a hit so I decided to post the recipe but only have few photos of it.   Then I thought this would be good test to see if feed burner sends this to my subscribers as they have not been receiving my feeds. I checked what was the problem and it says that I have too many pics. So I thought let me share this recipe with less pics and see if the subscribers gets this in their email.

I did make a lot of it, and used some for the party and some I took it to work and at both places everyone loved it !

Here are the ingredients I used:

• 3/4 of  Sun dried tomatoes Jar with its olive oil (from Costco)
• 1 20 oz can of crushed tomatoes
• 2-3 Fresh Jalapeno peppers
• 2-3 Fresh sweet red peppers
• 1 small green pepper
• 1 red onion
• 1 yellow or white onion
• 3-4 green onions

• 10 cloves of garlic
• 1 cooked beet  (I used pickled beet from jar in its juice. Costco again, they should pay me right? ;)
• 1 cup juice from pickled Jalapeno jar
• 1/4 cup of pickled Jalapenos
• 1 cup of Red Wine Vinegar
• Juice from 1 fresh lime
•  1 bunch of cilantro
• 2-3 tablespoon of olive oil
• 2 teaspoons of Cumin seeds
• 3 tablespoon of Taco seasoning
• 1 tablespoon of ground cumin powder
• Salt to taste

Method:

• Chop all the peppers and onions.
• Heat oil in a pan.
• When oil is hot, add cumin seeds.
• When these crackle, add taco seasoning and immediately followed by garlic and all the chopped onions and peppers.
• Saute for few min.
• Add salt and ground cumin powder.
• Saute until soft.
• Turn the heat off and let the contents cool.

• In the mean time, add sun dried tomatoes with oil from jar in food processor.
• Puree.
• Add crush tomatoes, cooked or pickled beets from the jar with its juice.
• Add pickled jalapenos with its vinegar.
• Puree again until smooth paste.
• Set aside.
• Puree sauteed onions and peppers in food processor and add to the tomato puree.
• Add lime juice. 

• Mix well or puree until smooth and everything is well incorporated. 
• Add red wine vinegar and mix well.
• Serve with your favorite chips.

• You can adjust the amount of salt to taste and adjust tartness by amount of vinegar and lime juice to your taste.
• You can make this ahead of time and freeze it,  stays very fresh.

Enjoy !!


Recipe and Photographs by Surekha