Casa de Valdez's Salsa Fresca, Reproduction Attempt Recipe Scargod

Ingredients

• 6 cups ripe
• fresh
• red tomatoes
• seeded
• 1 cup cilantro leaves (without stems
• but before chopping)
• chopped
• 3 tablespoons crushed fresh garlic (7-10 cloves)
• 2-3 serranos
• seeded and chopped
• 1/2 teaspoon white pepper
• 1 teaspoon cumin powder
• 2 (or more)
• tablespoons salt
• 6 limes
• juiced
• or juice of 6 average sized limes
• 1/2 cup Vidalia
• sweet onion
• chopped fine
• Brown sugar (optional)

Instructions

1. Chop everything medium to fine.
2. Reason: You dont want the blender to do too much of the work.
3. You dont want this salsa to be too finely blended or too homogeneous.
4. You want a little texture!
5. You can always run the blender more!
6. If you start out too big, some things will get pulverized while others will not.
7. For exceptional taste, toast cumin seeds and grind or crush to make your own powder.
8. Put some lime juice in the blender; just enough to allow the blender to work.
9. Add the garlic and serrano and grind them up a bit, where there are no large chunks or big pieces.
10. Add everything else but the cilantro and blend gently to the tomato chunkiness you like.
11. Then add the chopped cilantro and mix in.
12. They are already chopped; dont blend them smaller.
13. Again, you dont want them or anything finely pureed.
14. Taste.
15. Adjust salt.
16. Add sugar (if needed), so it isnt too tart.
17. This may happen with some acidic tomatoes.
18. Let it sit a while and let the flavors meld.