Roasted Tomato Salsa + VIDEO

This Roasted Tomato Salsa recipe is NOT SPICY. I keep getting asked for a salsa recipe that won’t send you running to find water.

That’s what this recipe is. Super yummy and only a hint of spice.

The roasting adds soooo much flavor to the salsa. I know you’re going to LOVE it!

FYI: There are plenty of spicy salsa recipes on this website such as Chile de Arbol Salsa, Chile Piquin Salsa, Tomatillo Habanero Salsa

• Start by adding the tomatoes on the skillet.
• The tomatoes are the first thing you put on the skillet, and the last thing you take off.

Open up the windows, and heat up the griddle! It can get SMOKEY when you’re working with chiles so save the batteries in your smoke detector – the voice of experience.

If you’re doing this old school (aka “on the griddle”), you will need to watch your food and turn and turn again.

Burn, baby. Burn! 🙂

More Mexican Salsa Recipes:

Salsa de Aguacate
Salsa Morita
Salsa Borracha
Avocado Mango Salsa

• Once they start turning black, turn the tomatoes.
• Char on all sides.

This will take a few minutes. You want the tomatoes to be soft to the touch.

How to Adjust the Spicy Level:

For a spicier salsa, add fewer tomatoes and another jalapeno.
The more tomatoes you add, the less spicy it will be.

• Once you have turned the tomatoes once, add the jalapenos.
• Skin-side down to get a good char.

If you do this on the griddle, you’re going to hear it POPPING. The flesh of the chile pepper does that.

The heat of the pepper lives in the seeds and veins area. Remove this to reduce the heat.

• After 5 minutes, add the onion and garlic.
• They will roast very quickly.

You can also roast in the oven, under the broiler.

How to Roast in the Broiler

• Place all the ingredients on a sheet pan.
• Coat with olive oil.
• Cook under the broiler for 15 minutes. Turn halfway.

The problem with roasting in the broiler is that you sometimes don’t get a good char. The black charred skin adds TONS of flavor to the salsa.

• Place all the ingredients in the food processor.
• Pulse to desired consistency.

OR, place all the ingredients in a blender for a smoother consistency.

OR, use a molcajete (or mortar and pestle) as in Tomato Molcajete Salsa. This will produce a chunkier salsa like the one below.

This Roasted Tomato Salsa recipe is absolutely, 100% DELICIOUS! Grab some chips and dig in.

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