Note- If you have never cut hot peppers before use caution, don't rub your eyes, nose or anything - immediately wash your hands for about 5 minutes. You may want to hold the peppers with gloves or paper towels depending your skins sensitivity.
What you need:
1 package of small (a little smaller then your fist) ripe tomatoes of your choice - diced or quartered
1 half of English hot house cucumber (seedless)- julienned
1 cup of minced garlic
2 jalapenos - sliced
2 cherry peppers - sliced
1 half of habenaro - sliced - if you want more flavor and less heat use half a pablano pepper instead
Once everything is chopped and in a bowl add a few dashes of your favorite hot sauce to taste
Add one tablespoon of lime juice
Sprinkle of sugar
Ground pepper and salt to taste
Handful of chopped cilantro - this can be a pain to chopped - I use scissors right over the bowl
Mix all ingredients thoroughly!
What to do:
Use a chopper right in the bowl or go to town with the scissors getting everything down to bite size bits. Rinse your scissors when down...gets sticky if you forget! Once you are satisfied with your bite sizes bits - drain into a colander that has holes small enough not to lose any of your hard work.
Place back in your salsa bowl and you are ready to eat. I like to let it sit for a few hours or even over night, refrigerated, of course. As it sits it usually gets hotter. This makes approximately 7 cups of salsa.
Once in a while I add corn or black beans (drained). Make it your own but let me know how it turned out!
You can use this over rice, chicken, steak, fish or even salad! YUM!!
Enjoy!!!
;)a xo
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