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Oven Roasted Tomatillo Salsa

Super flexible tomatillo based salsa made by roasting the vegetables and then zipping them up in a food processor. It's quick, it's healthy and it's cost effective!
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Course Appetizer
Cuisine Mexican
Servings 15
Calories 33 kcal

Equipment

  • Food Processor

Ingredients
  

Ingredients to Roast in the Oven

  • 2 lbs Tomatillos
  • 2-4 Poblano peppers Large vs. Small
  • 1 Jalapeno
  • 1 Onion red / white - whatever you've got - Quartered

Optional other Ingredients to Consider

  • 1 Fresno Chile these are just a bit spicier than jalepenos
  • 2 Anaheim Chile these are mild green chile peppers
  • 1 Red Pepper red / green / yellow - whatever you've got
  • .75 C Grape Tomatoes (or other tomato type)
  • 4 Garlic Cloves

Used to Finish the Dish

  • 1-2 Limes
  • 1/2 tsp Cumin
  • 1 tsp Oregano

Instructions
 

  • Set the oven to 400 degrees

Clean and Prepare the Vegetables to be Roasted

  • Tomatillos - Take off the papery outer wrapper, wash good (use a vegetable scrubber to get the sticky bits off) and pull off the top stem.
  • Peppers - Wash and cut lengthwise - deseed and de-stem
  • Onion - Peel and quarter
  • Tomatoes - if you are using - wash and add to the pan - if larger than grape - cut to be same size as the tomatillos so they cook evenly
  • Garlic - if you are using - leave garlic in the papery outer layer for roasting
  • Take some olive oil and a paint brush (kitchen brush) and olive oil up the veg - and salt them.
  • Roast the vegetables in the oven for about 40 minutes - till the veg are brownish and the tomatillos are starting to give up water and burst a bit.
  • If it can be easily done - peel some of the skin off the peppers. Don't make yourself crazy - if it comes off easily then pull it off.
  • Place all roasted ingredients into your food processor. (If you roasted garlic cloves in the skin - then squeeze the cloves out of their skin and into the food processor)
  • Add in cumin and oregano.
  • Blend the salsa & taste it. If it's too hot (like mine was) add a full juice of a lime. If only partially hot - add half of a limes worth of juice. Taste with a tortilla and see how it tastes. May need some more Salt or Pepper or Lime Juice. Let the salsa sit a while and leave the flavors to blend. (overnight)
  • Enjoy straight up with chips, or use in recipes - consider using as an alternate for enchilada sauce or on southwestern stuffed bell peppers etc.

Notes

Next time you are in the grocery and maybe you want to pickup something like this and toss in the oven. Super simple and you get a HUGE bowl full - for like $4.
Calories per serving of this ~30. Unless you add chips...and Guac... LOL
P.S.  1/4 C is a serving - and it counts as a serving of veggies.  Remember - the advice is at least 2-3 servings of veggies a day!  

Nutrition

Calories: 33kcalCarbohydrates: 7gProtein: 1gFat: 1gSaturated Fat: 0.1gPolyunsaturated Fat: 0.3gMonounsaturated Fat: 0.1gSodium: 3mgPotassium: 251mgFiber: 2gSugar: 4gVitamin A: 463IUVitamin C: 36mgCalcium: 15mgIron: 1mg
Keyword Homemade Salsa, Oven Roasted Salsa, Salsa
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