Salsa by Mike Deneweth
A lovely salsa that Mike Deneweth has been making at ACUS (Ambercon US) for years, borrowing a blender from a local friend.
Equipment
- Blender, hand blender, or food processor
Ingredients
- 2 large tomatoes
- 1 large cucumber peeled
- 6 large basil leaves fresh
- 1 tbsp salt
- 1 tbsp garlic minced
- 6 tbsp lime juice (Key lime juice is best)
- 3 tbsp olive oil (preferably extra-virgin)
Instructions
- I usually cut up half of one of the tomatoes into large chunks and put it into the food processor with the basil, salt, garlic, lime juice, and olive oil.Run the processor to get the basil leaves chopped up pretty well. That way you don’t end up with huge pieces of basil in the final product.Slice up the cucumber and rest of the tomatoes into large chunks and add them.Pulse until the whole thing reaches your desired level of “chunkiness” and you’re done.
- It’s good freshly made or after being refrigerated for a while.I recently tried it without the olive oil and it does not make a huge difference in the taste but does make cleaning the food processor afterward quite a bit easier. So, that’s up to you.