Steve's Salsa
24 Large tomatoes (Leave the skins on them and cut the tomatoes into at least quarters, if not smaller, for what size you want your "chunks" to be. I had little guys so I went by 24 cups, thinking one large tomato diced equals about a cup.)
6-12 Jalapeno peppers (Six for mild and remove the seeds, I used six and left the seeds in going for a "medium", use 12 for hot.)
6 Medium onions (I used two Gargantuan ones!)
3 large green peppers (I used two large ones because green peppers aren't my favorite.)
3 cloves garlic (I used 4 because while I don't love green peppers, I do love garlic.)
1 cup Vinegar
1/3 cup sugar
3 Tablespoons salt
3 Tablespoons oregano
3 Tablespoons cumin
Once the tomatoes were diced, I got out the food processor and let it do the chopping for me. In went the jalapenos, onions, peppers & garlic. Of course, this was done in batches...
To the chopped ingredients, I added the vinegar, sugar, salt, oregano & cumin. I stirred that up very well then I added all of the diced tomatoes; after I drained 1 1/2 cups of juice off them. (I let them sit for a while as I visited with a friend and when I came back there was quite a bit of liquid. This is how much easily poured off.)
Liquid drained off:
Stir it all up!
From there I filled the pint jars, put the lids on them as one does when canning, set them in the water-bath filled with cold water. (Just enough water so it covers the tops of all the jars.).
I turned the burner on, brought it to a hard boil, set the timer for 20 minutes, and that batch is complete!
This made 13 pints of salsa.
Cost analysis:
Tomatoes - from my garden, priceless, but for the sake of a figure, we'll say FREE
Jalapenos - again, from my garden
ORGANIC Green Peppers, 3/$1 so, .66 (clearance at local market!)
garlic - .59
The vinegar, sugar*, salt, cumin* & oregano* are things I just have on hand.
Cost of lids: $1.86/box
Total out-of-pocket expense: $3.11 for 13 pints of salsa. That's 23 cents per pint of NON GMO, home-grown, as good as it gets salsa!!!
*organic ingredients
Cost analysis:
Tomatoes - from my garden, priceless, but for the sake of a figure, we'll say FREE
Jalapenos - again, from my garden
ORGANIC Green Peppers, 3/$1 so, .66 (clearance at local market!)
garlic - .59
The vinegar, sugar*, salt, cumin* & oregano* are things I just have on hand.
Cost of lids: $1.86/box
Total out-of-pocket expense: $3.11 for 13 pints of salsa. That's 23 cents per pint of NON GMO, home-grown, as good as it gets salsa!!!
*organic ingredients
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