Monday, June 3, 2013
Salsa Verde
Salsa Verde: 1 out of 5 enjoyed
My youngest sons favorite snack to eat with chips, taco, burrito or anything Mexican. I thought it would be the best to make from scratch for so many reason. It will save me money, the amount of money I spend on a store brought salsa compared to to the amount I would spend on the fresh ingredients will yield so much more, and to me homemade items are always/sometimes better. Away I gathered all my fresh ingredients and got started. Not pleased with the finish products. Wasn't a fan of the chard taste and it felt like it had no flavor to it. I could taste the heat from the peppers but the taste was just blah.... Next time around I'm going to:
1. Less char
2. More cilantro
3. Maybe a little bit of lime/lemon
Not sure if I had to much char on the vegetables or if it was just a bad recipe to begin with. Oh well back to the drawing board..
Take 2 Salsa Verde: 3 out of 5 (2 other house members don't eat Salsa Verde)
Did a little more research checked out different authentic Mexican websites to see the best way it should be prepared. First method was to boil the Tomatillos instead of roasting it. Which is probably the way the store brought salsa is made. The second method is the way I made it earlier. Since we are not use to the taste roasted Tomatillos and peppers it wasn't something we enjoyed. One of my family members enjoy the chard taste, the rest of us however did not.
After doing the boiling method and mixed all my ingredients together, it still wasn't quite the tastes and color I was looking for. Once again I had to think of how to fix it, So after tasting again and looking at the mixture I had to recognize where I went wrong. I thought of all of the ingredients and it came to me. That the large white onion I brought was extra large. I did ask a member of my house hold if the onion was larger then normal. I had a feeling it was big but I didn't have another to compare to. All of the onion were the same size. Anyway I threw in more cilantro and seasoning, packed it up and put it in the refrigerate for a yet again fix. I needed more Tomatillos and peppers to supplement the extra onion in the batch. I needed to go to the store again in the morning. After buying 3 more Tomatillos and 2 more serrano more salt and pepper. It produced the color I was looking for, the flavor I was looking for and that spicy kick in the end. After all of that It was finally done. Now the big test is will my son like it tomorrow for lunch???? !!! Oh yeah I also made his homemade roasted tortilla. Probably should have fried them. Nut I have to stay healthy Knowing my picky son he'll have something to say about them :)
UPDATE: BIG HIT WITH MY SON AND HIS CLASSMATES!!!!!!!!!!!
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