Homemade Salsa With Canned Tomatoes Recipe

This homemade salsa recipe is sort of a cheat recipe because it uses canned tomatoes and a bit of tomato sauce. For the true blue chef, of course you can use your own canned tomatoes and sauce or use from fresh tomatoes.

Ingredients

1 jalapeno
1 shallot, roughly chopped
2 cloves garlic
1/4 cup cilantro leaves
1/2 teaspoon granulated sugar
1/4 teaspoon salt
juice of half a lime
14 ounce can of diced or whole tomatoes, with liquid
8 ounce can of tomato sauce

Directions

Remove the seeds and white ribs from the pepper and cut the jalapeno into 4 pieces.

Use a food processor and blend the jalapeno, shallot, garlic and cilantro.

Pulse it a few times.

Add sugar, salt and lime juice.

Pulse until finely chopped.

Add tomatoes and tomato sauce and pulse until your desired smoothness.