Fresh Homemade Salsa – Fit Foodie Finds

Use up your garden veggies and make homemade salsa with juicy tomatoes, onion, fresh garlic, bell pepper, and cilantro.

Gorgeous Garden Salsa Recipe

Garden bursting with veggies? We’re here with a simple homemade salsa recipe that will take care of your overflowing produce!

We love homemade salsa because it’s truly the perfect vessel for crunchy tortilla tips, plus doubles as a topping for many things such as tacos, baked potatoes, fajitas, and more!

Our homemade salsa recipe is made with juicy garden tomatoes, 2 types of onion, garlic, bell pepper, and cilantro. Best part? No need to mince everything by hand when you can use a food processor!

Featured Ingredients

Tomatoes: tomatoes are the basis of salsa and lucky for you, pretty much any kind of tomato works. We used a medium tomato on the vine, but you can also use roma tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, heirloom tomatoes, etc.

Bell Pepper: bell peppers are easy to grow, so we threw one in! Feel free to use any color.

Onion: we used two types of onion in this recipe – red onion and green onion.

Garlic: fresh garlic is absolutely necessary for homemade salsa!

Fresh cilantro: fresh herbs are key for homemade salsa!

How to Make Homemade Salsa

This recipe for homemade salsa is ready in less than 10 minutes!

1. Process veggies: add tomato, green onion, red onion, garlic, cilantro, and bell pepper, and process until combined.
2. Add spices: add salt, cumin, chili powder, cayenne, and lime juice. Add the remaining tomato.
3. Process again: process the salsa again until it reaches your desired consistency. You can either process it smooth (like restaurant salsa) or leave it chunky, more like pico de gallo.
4. Serve: serve your garden salsa with your favorite tortilla chips or as a topping on your favorite meal.

FAQ

Storage

Store salsa in an airtight container in the fridge for up to 5 days.

Looking to can your salsa?

If you are looking to can your homemade salsa, check out Wholefully’s canning salsa 101 post!

Fresh Homemade Salsa

This recipe for fresh homemade salsa is made with garden veggies featuring tomatoes, onion, garlic, cilantro, and bell pepper.

Prep:20 minutes

Cook:0 minutes

Total:20 minutes

Fat 0.4

Carbs 7

Protein 1

Ingredients

• 4 medium tomatoes* quartered
• ½ small red onion
• 3 green onions
• ¼ cup cilantro with stems
• Zest of 1 small lime
• 1 small bell pepper we used orange
• 4 cloves garlic
• 1 teaspoons salt or more to taste
• 1.5 teaspoons ground cumin
• ½ teaspoon chili powder
• ⅛ teaspoon cayenne pepper
• 1 teaspoon fresh lime juice
• optional: small jalapeño seeded

Instructions 

• Place 3 of the tomatoes into a food processor* along with the red onion, green onion, cilantro, lime zest, bell pepper, and garlic. Pulse the ingredients together on low until all the ingredients are processed and combined, but not soupy.

• Add the remaining tomato, 1 teaspoon of salt, cumin, chili powder, cayenne pepper, and lime juice and pulse the salsa again until the ingredients are processed and incorporated.

• If you like chunks in your salsa, leave the salsa as is. If you like a smoother salsa, process until it reaches desired consistency. Taste test and adjust with salt.

• Transfer the salsa to a jar and cover or serve immediately with tortilla chips.

Tips & Notes

• We used vine on red medium tomatoes. You can use any type of tomato you would like for this recipe, just be sure to add a few at a time so you can monitor the water content of the tomatoes. If you add all the tomatoes at once and have watery tomatoes, you may end up with a very runny salsa.
• You can also use a high-speed blender for this recipe (like a Vitamix). However, we do not recommend just any blender. If you have a food processor, we do prefer that!
• If you like spice, you can add a jalapeño.

Nutrition facts

Calories: 31kcal Carbohydrates: 7g Protein: 1g Fat: 0.4g Fiber: 2g Sugar: 4g