Roasted Tomato And Chipotle Salsa Recipes

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.

ROASTED TOMATO AND CHIPOTLE SALSA

Steps:

• Preheat broiler. Put peppers into the hot water; cover, and let stand until soft, about 15 minutes. Discard stems.
• Put tomatoes onto a baking sheet. Broil tomatoes, turning once, until blackened, about 4 minutes per side.
• Puree peppers, tomatoes, onion, and cilantro in a food processor until smooth. With machine running, pour in oil in a slow, steady stream. Season with salt. Serve warm or at room temperature.

FIRE-ROASTED TOMATO CHIPOTLE SALSA

Steps:

• Heat a tablespoon of oil in a saute pan over medium heat until lightly smoking, add the onion and saute until carmelized, about 10 minutes or so.
• Transfer the onion, half the blackened tomatoes and garlic to a food processor and pulse until finely chopped but not pureed. Add the cilantro and chipotle chiles and pulse again to mix.
• Peel, seed and chop the remaining tomatoes tomatoes and fold in along with the remaining oil, vinegar, salt and sugar.
• Serve chilled or at room temp with chips, red meat or chicken.

ROASTED TOMATO-CHIPOTLE SALSA

Steps:

• Preheat broiler. On a broiler-proof sheet pan, toss tomatoes with onion, oil, salt, and pepper. Broil until charred in spots, 15 to 20 minutes; cool.
• Transfer contents of sheet pan to a food processor; add chipotles, cilantro, and lime juice. Pulse until combined but still chunky.

ROASTED TOMATO -CHIPOTLE SALSA

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350ºF. Cut tomatoes and onion into quarters, place on a baking sheet and drizzle with vegetable oil. Then sprinkle with the chili & cayenne powder. Bake in oven for about 40 minutes.
• About halfway through, flip the vegetables over. Check in occasionally to make sure the vegetables are not drying out. There will be extra oil on the sheet, so you can use tongs or a spatula to move them around & redistribute the oil. They are done when soft and the skin is blistery and slightly brown.
• Remove the stems and seeds from the chipotles. Place all the prepared vegetables and the chipotles in a blender along with the garlic cloves, cilantro and squeeze lime juice into the blender and blend well.
• NOTE: For chunkier salsa, just pulse the blender button only for a few seconds. For smoother textured salsa, process to your desired consistency. Salt to taste.
• You can also add another chipotle pepper and adobo sauce to make it more spicy and enhance the smoky flavor to your own taste. Allow the salsa to chill for a couple of hours. Serve with white or blue corn tortilla chips. Mmmmm -- good.

ROASTED CHIPOTLE SALSA

Steps:

• Place a comal or a cast-iron skillet over medium-high heat; do not oil. Place garlic, onion, and tomato (all with their skins) in pan and roast, turning, as needed, with tongs, until blistered and charred all over. Let vegetables cool slightly, then peel off skins.
• In a blender, combine vegetables with chipotle chile and cilantro leaves. Whirl until coarsely pureed. (If using a mortar and pestle, finely chop cilantro leaves with cooked, peeled onion and garlic. Mash tomatoes and chipotle in mortar, then stir in chopped vegetables and cilantro). Squeeze lime juice into salsa, then stir in oil. Taste, season with salt, and serve. Can be made ahead, covered, and refrigerated up to 3 days.