Recipes
Drunk & Toasted Salsa
What started as a taco recipe with beer also turned into a fresh salsa recipe using the other part of the can! This is a very simple dish to make. Unlike some of our recipes that require a lot of fine chopping, this recipe you can pretty much just cut small enough for the blender to finish the work for you 🙂
Easy to make
No fine cutting of ingredients, hardest part is peeling peppers!
Make quickly
Most time consuming is removing seeds/veins from peppers/tomatoes which is easy to do
Healthy
Fresh ingredients, great veggie dish!
Party Dish
Will feed quite a few - if making for 1-2 people, cut ingredients by half
Ingredients:
– Pepper (1/4 tsp)
– Salt (1/2 tsp)
– Cumin (1/2 tsp)
– Olive Oil
– 1/4 Yellow Onion
– Garlic Cloves (2)
– Cilantro (1/4 Cup)
– Fresh Squeezed Lime (1)
– Serrano Peppers (2-3)
– Jalapeno (1)
– Tomatoes (6-7, we used Roma)
– Bell Pepper (2, pick your favorite colors!)
– 8 Oz Beer (we used Oskar Blue’s Mas Lima Cerveza, it’s a Mexican lager with lime and salt!)
This dish does not keep well, so make less if you aren't going to use it within 48 hours!
–Â Turn oven to high broil
– Prep peppers
- Cut in half, then remove the veins and seeds. If you want more of a kick leave some of the Jalapeno veins in.
- Brush with olive oil – this will help them not burn in the oven and make the peeling process a bit easier.
– Put peppers on a cooking pan and in oven on top rack
– Leave peppers in oven 5-10 minutes until they blacken a bit. We can work on other things while this is cooking
– Chop up rest of ingredients – we can make larger chunks since we will be putting everything in the blender
– For the tomatoes, we want to core them and remove the seeds / extra juice. If we don’t, the salsa will be too runny/watery. Use a small spoon and scoop the inside out
– Peppers should be done – lets remove them then QUICKLY get them into a bowl with some plastic wrap on top. We are are steaming them for a few minutes which helps with the peeling process.
– Skin the peppers – I used a knife and scraped them
– Toss everything into a bowl, then squeeze that lime in and add the beer
– Mix briefly, the blender will do most of the work. We want the bowl in case the blender can’t fit everything
– Add to blender and pulse away! For a thicker chunkier consistency only pulse a little bit (it also helps to make your veggies smaller earlier). If you want a smoother salsa, blend longer
– Enjoy! This recipe does not keep long, so make sure to split ingredients in half if only cooking for 1-2 people