Sean’s Roasted Salsa
Hi friends! Today I’ve got something special for you: Sean’s uhhhmazing homemade salsa recipe! I’ve posted about his salsa a couple of times before, and it was a HUGE hit at my birthday party, with several recipe requests coming out of that. Well, ask and ye shall receive… eventually! Ha!
He made salsa again recently and had the thoughtfulness to take pictures of the process for me to blog about. See, told you he was a keeper. 
Sean’s salsa has deep, roasted flavors and has restaurant-style consistency — he purees it very finely so it coats each chip, as opposed to the chunkier, pico de gallo-style salsa I’m often used to out of the jar. This salsa is perfect not just for snacking, but for topping tacos and other dishes since the consistency is so smooth and pourable. Sean makes fish tacos sometimes and I douse them in this salsa — SO good!
You can make it as spicy or as mild as you like — he’s a spice-fiend, but I often have to ask him to scale it back for me. I know, I’m pathetic. But it’s so good that even when he makes it too spicy, I can’t stop myself from eating it. I just end up paying the price for it later, hahaha.
So without further adieu, awaaaay we go!
Sean’s Roasted Salsa
Ingredients:
6 medium tomatoes
1 large onion
2 jalapeno peppers (or poblano, ancho, guajillo, or peppers of your choice)
2 cloves elephant garlic (or ~6 small cloves)
1 canned chipotle pepper in sauce (unpictured, but they come in small cans in the ethnic foods section of your grocery store)
Juice of lime
1/2 cup fresh cilantro
2 tbsp red wine vinegar
2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
Seasonings: Cumin, chili powder, cayenne, salt (all to taste)
Instructions:
1. Heat grill or set broiler to high. Slice tomatoes in half, and onion into thick, grill-bearing slices.
2. Put tomatoes, onion, garlic, and jalapenos on the grill/under the broil, and cook until outsides are blackened, flipping once. Tomatoes take about 25 minutes, everything else around 10 minutes, so remove items as they finish cooking.
3. Add veggies to food processor and add canned chipotle pepper (you can add as many as you like if you like your salsa spicy, but one is enough for me!) and some of the sauce from the can as well. Add lime juice, red wine vinegar, olive oil, and pulse food processor until everything is combined. If you don’t have a food processor, this could potentially be done in a blender, or you could chop and combine ingredients by hand (it’ll just be a chunkier salsa).
4. Add seasonings to taste, including more vinegar and olive oil if you think it calls for it. This is where you can tailor the salsa to your exact preferences!
5. Once everything is to your liking, you can serve it warm right away, or allow salsa to cool in the fridge if you prefer it cold. Then, when you’re ready, just dunk some chips in there and enjoy! Ole!
