Roasted Jalapeño Tomato Salsa With Fresh Cilantro Food

ROASTED JALAPEñO-TOMATO SALSA WITH FRESH CILANTRO

Steps:

• 1. Heat the broiler. Lay the whole tomatoes and jalapeños out on a broiler pan or baking sheet. Set the pan 4 inches below the broiler and broil for about 6 minutes, until darkly roasted - even blackened in spots - on one side (the tomato skins will split and curl in places). With a pair of tongs, flip over the tomatoes and chiles and roast the other side for another 6 minutes or so. The goal is not simply to char the tomatoes and chiles, but to cook them through while developing nice, roasty flavors. Set aside to cool.
• 2. Turn the oven down to 425 degrees. Separate the onions into rings. On a similar pan or baking sheet, combine the onion and garlic. Roast in the oven, stirring carefully every couple of minutes, until the onions are beautifully browned and wilted (even have a touch of char on some of the edges) and the garlic is soft and browned in spots, about 15 minutes total. Cool to room temperature.
• 3. For a little less rustic texture or if you're canning the salsa, pull off the peels from the cooled tomatoes and cut out the "cores" where the stems were attached, working over your baking sheet so as not to waste any juices. In a food processor, pulse the jalapeños (no need to peel or seed them) with the onion and garlic until moderately finely chopped, scraping everything down with a spatula as needed to keep it all moving around. Scoop into a big bowl. Without washing the processor, coarsely puree the tomatoes - with all that juice that has accumulated around them - and add them to the bowl. Stir in enough water to give the salsa an easily spoonable consistency. Stir in the cilantro.
• 4. Taste and season with salt and vinegar, remembering that this condiment should be a little fiesty in its seasoning. If you're planning to use your salsa right away, simply pour it into a bowl and it's ready, or refrigerate it covered and use within 5 days.

JALAPENO SALSA

Steps:

• Place jalapenos in a saucepan with enough water to cover. Bring to a boil. Simmer until jalapenos soften and begin to lose their shine, about 10 to 12 minutes. Remove the jalapenos with a slotted spoon, chop off the stem, and place them in a blender. Add the tomatoes and boil for 2 to 3 minutes to loosen the skin. Peel the skin from the tomatoes and add tomatoes to the blender.
• Place the onion, cilantro, garlic, lime juice, salt, and black pepper in the blender with the jalapenos and tomatoes. Blend to desired consistency.

ROASTED JALAPENO AND TOMATO SALSA

Steps:

• Place oven rack to highest position and preheat broiler.
• Put tomatoes and peppers on a baking sheet and place under broiler for about 10 minutes.
• Tomatoes and peppers should be blackened in spots.
• Turn tomatoes and peppers over and broil for about another 10 minutes.
• Tomatoes and peppers should be blackened in spots and cooked through.
• Peppers may be done before tomatoes, if so, remove them as they are done.
• Remove from oven and let cool.
• Reduce heat to 425 degrees F.
• Cut onion into 1/4 inch slices and separate into rings.
• Place onion and garlic on a baking sheet and place in oven.
• Cook for about 15 minutes or until onion is wilted and slightly charred and garlic is soft and brown.
• Stir a couple of times during cooking.
• Remove from oven and let cool.
• Remove stems from peppers and tomatoes.
• Put peppers, onion and garlic in a food processor and coarsely chop.
• Scoop into a large bowl.
• Coarsely chop tomatoes and put in bowl.
• Stir together and add salt and apple cider vinegar.
• Chop cilantro and add.
• You may want to use less cilantro.
• Adjust salt and vinegar to taste.

ROASTED TOMATO SALSA

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
• Line a rimmed baking sheet with foil for easier cleanup.
• Mince 1 of the jalapenos and set it aside.
• In a large bowl, combine the remaining jalapenos, tomatoes halves, onion, garlic, tomato paste, 1 tsp salt, 2 tablespoons oil, cumin and cayenne. Toss gently to thoroughly mix. Place on the baking sheet, cut sides down where applicable, and roast until the tomatoes are tender and skins begin to shrivel and brown, 35-45 minutes.
• Cool on the baking sheet for 10 minutes.
• With tongs, transfer roasted onions, garlic and jalapenos to food processor. Process until the mixture is smooth, about10 seconds. Scrape down sides of bowl. Add tomatoes and process until they're chunky - 5-10 seconds more.
• Pour into serving dish and stir in reserved minced jalapeno, cilantro and lime juice. Add salt to taste.
• NB - If your tomatoes are very acidic, add sugar, a little at a time, to mellow the flavor to suit your taste.
• Serve with your favorite chips, over eggs, to make nachos, just with a spoon -- ;-).

ROASTED TOMATO SALSA I

Steps:

• Preheat the broiler.
• In a medium baking dish, place roma (plum) tomatoes, garlic, onion and jalapeno chile pepper. Drizzle with olive oil.
• Checking often, broil 5 to 10 minutes, or until outsides of vegetables are charred.
• Remove vegetables from heat. Remove and discard tomato cores, jalapeno stem and garlic skins.
• In a food processor, coarsely chop the charred vegetables. Transfer to a medium bowl and mix in cumin, salt, lime juice and cilantro.