I cleaned out my greenhouse this week and ended up with almost a bushel of mostly green tomatoes so I went to work looking for canning recipes for ..what else? green tomatoes. I found a green tomato salsa. Green Tomato Salsa 5 lbs green tomatoes chopped, diced or pureed (how ever you like your salsa texture) 6 onions ..chopped or diced to suit. (4 cups) 3 jalapenos diced with seeds (1/2 cup) 4 large red bell peppers ( green will work or a combination) 6 cloves of garlic crushed 1 cup fresh cilantro 1 cup lime juice (lemon will work, too) 1/2 vinegar 1 tablespoon of salt or to taste 1/2 tablespoon cumin or to taste 1-2 teaspoons of sugar or to taste. (mine was too tart, I added a little more) combine in a large pot (8 quart) mix well, bring to a boil, reduce heat and simmer for 40 min. Ladle into clean jars leaving 1/2 inch head room add lids and bands to finger tip tight. Place in pan with simmering water, bring to a boil and process for 15 minutes. Check lids and refrigerate any that didn't seal after 24 hours. Approximately 8 pints. green tomato salsa ( photo / image / picture from carolyn keiper's Garden )
That looks good. I have many salsa recipes and have saved yours now. Thank you. I will make yours next Fall.
Barb, If I could give you some tomatoes today you could make it this fall. It doesn't even look like I used any.
Barb, I can't sell it at my markets, but I can offer it for sale here at home on my stand (different rules for different points of sale, which makes no sense to me.), so maybe I will sell it or maybe I will keep it all for us, but I will probably sell some of it.
Well, it sure looks good. Keep on using those tomatoes. Please tell us how many jars you got out of them. It's a good lesson on using what others let go to waste. I saved every little piece of food that I could out of my garden this year. Except the tomato skins....That I will get into next Summer.
2nd Batch tonight... I made 19 pints with all the ingredients I had on hand., As I was getting ready to start I was thinking "what could I use to make this go a little faster and have uniform pieces of tomatoes...hmmm"..... I saw my apple slicer sitting next to the sink and thought I would try that. Well, it worked beautifully. ( photo / image / picture from carolyn keiper's Garden ) ( photo / image / picture from carolyn keiper's Garden ) Now, if I had worn gloves to clean the 15 jalapenos, my hands wouldn't be radiating the tingle of capsasin.
The salsa is looking good. The apple slicer worked very well, didn't it. Just to see them like that--it makes such a fancy presentation. Clever that you thought of that.
