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Chevys Salsa Recipe
6 tomatoes
1/2 cup olive or vegetable oil
2 jalapeno peppers
1/2 yellow onion
4 garlic cloves
2 tablespoons fresh chopped cilantro
2 tablespoons fresh lime juice
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon Mesquite flavored liquid smoke
Use olive or vegetable oil to coat the tomatoes, peppers and onion with oil. I wet a paper towel with oil and then rub it all over the vegetables.
Get a small barbecue and use Mesquite charcoal. Grill the oil-coated tomatoes, peppers and onion half until everything has some black on its skin. I rotate the vegetables once or twice and it takes about 30 minutes of grilling to get everything blackened and imbued with the Mesquite smoke smell.
Remove everything from the grill and let the tomatoes, peppers and onion cool. Once everything is cool, core the tomatoes and place them in a blender.
Surgically cut open the jalapeno peppers lengthwise and remove all the seeds and the stems. If you like a mild salsa, put 12 of the seeds in the blender. If you like it hotter, put 20 of the seeds in the blender. The seeds are the key to controlling the hotness of the salsa. By counting the seeds, you can control the hotness and keep your salsa consistent from one batch to the next. You can also use as many jalapeno peppers as you like this way since you are not automatically adding hotness by adding more peppers. Again, remove all the seeds from all the jalapeno peppers and put back only as much as you want in order to control the hotness of the salsa.
Chop up the onion and the cilantro and add the rest of the ingredients to the blender. Blend the concoction for about 15 seconds and then check it for taste and consistency. If you like it chunky, stop blending. If you like it smoother, blend a little longer. Add more salt and mesquite flavoring to taste. BE CAREFUL! The mesquite flavoring is VERY strong so do NOT add very much at a time.
The salsa tastes great when it's hot and some people may prefer it that way. Once you're ready to store it, just put it in the refrigerator in tupperware and enjoy it with your favorite chips. We like Tostitos Scoops because they are thin and come closest to Chevy's chips.
The only thing that might be hard to find is the mesquite flavoring. I found Wright's brand mesquite smoke flavoring at Albertson's grocery stores. For the charcoal, you can use real mesquite or just the mesquite briquettes. I've tried both and can't tell a difference.
