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Make this easy Mexican salsa restaurant style, and enjoy an appetizer with chips and salsa!
This salsa is one of the must-haves on your recipe box. Everyone I know loves Mexican salsa served with chips and paired with a cold beer or a margarita.
America runs on chips and salsa, don’t you think so?
Any celebration needs a chips and salsa fun appetizer and for that, an easy Mexican salsa restaurant style is in order.
This recipe has tomatoes on the vine, serrano peppers, garlic, fresh cilantro, and the secret ingredient: seasoned tomato sauce in a can.
Using canned tomato sauce makes the salsa sweeter and preserves longer in the fridge. Just make sure to keep in inside a mason jar with a lid or on a plastic container that has a sealing lid.
This salsa will remain fresh for at least four days and it is a fantastic spicy tomato sauce to use in other dishes, such as huevos rancheros, tomato enchiladas. As a garnish for carne asada, tacos, sopes, molletes, and almost anything you want to add hot sauce.
Why Mexicans love hot sauce and salsas?
Salsas and spicy peppers are a staple of Mexican cuisine. Many of the dishes we adore pair with homemade fresh salsas that add depth and texture to the food we eat. So anytime you eat at a Mexican restaurant, or that you experience a Mexican family feast, you’ll find a variety of sauces to choose.
Those hot sauce could go from mild to very hot. Some will be smoky due to the use of dried peppers. And others will be fresh and combined with fruits instead of tomatoes.
Depending on the menu is the salsa that will pair to perfection with the specific food. For example, al pastor tacos will be paired with a pineapple habanero sauce. Carne asada will be drizzled with either a smoky sauce made with chile de arbol, or a Mexican red salsa like the one we are sharing today.
Sopes and quesadillas go well with chunky fresh salsas such as pico de gallo and salsa verde. Some of the salsas require boiling and roasting of the ingredients.
We love all the Mexican salsas, but our favorites are those that roast the ingredients first. The roasting or grilling gives a rustic flavor which is a staple of an authentic Mexican hot sauce.
Include the Mexican salsa restaurant style in your choices for Cinco de Mayo menu or any occasion. This salsa is so simple to make that you will like to add it to almost everything you eat at home. It is addictive, in the right way.
Mexican Salsa Restaurant Style
Equipment
- Roasting pan
- Pot
- Blender
Ingredients
- 2 tomatoes
- 6 serrano peppers
- 2 garlic cloves
- 1/2 white onion
- 1 cup seasoned tomato sauce
- 1/4 cup water
- 1 pinch salt
- 1 bunch cilantro
Instructions
- Roast the tomatoes with the peppers, garlic and the onion.
- Place the roasted veggies in the blender and add the water, the tomato sauce, and the cilantro.
- Blend for a chunky texture.
- Pour on a bowl and enjoy with chips.
Looks so delicious and would make a great addition for a Mexican Fiesta we’re hosting tomorrow!
I definitely run on chips and salsa. And I just love homemade salsa!! I always use fresh tomatoes though. I haven’t tried with canned tomatoes. Certainly sounds way easier!
The recipe uses spicy tomato sauce and fresh tomatoes blistered in a comal. The tomato sauce preserves the salsa longer. That is why many restaurants use that technique to prepare Mexican salsa.
This was a great recipe, made it last night and it was gone in minutes! The flavors were amazing!
Hi, Noelle thanks so much for trying our recipe I am glad you enjoyed it =)
It was a huge hit with my family! And I love how easy it is to make!
Awe Toni you are so sweet thanks so much for the kind comment on our recipe
I could literally live on this stuff, I lose all self control when faced with a great salsa…love how you blistered the veggies!
Right? I prepare salsa every other day is impossible not having it handy =)