by Texas Homesteader ~
A fresh garden salsa can be the perfect addition to any meal. It’s vibrant, healthy and incredibly easy to make. With just a few fresh ingredients and a few minutes’ time you can make this flavorful garden salsa, bursting with freshness.
Grow What You Love To Eat In Your Vegetable Garden
It doesn’t do any good to plant the seeds and work hard all season to produce a crop to finally get a harvest that makes your family say, mehhhh….
So go ahead, plant whatever veggies that you’ll be excited to eat.
Planting A Salsa Garden
I like to plant veggies in the garden that will grant me the ingredients for a healthy, delicious garden salsa. Why not? They’re all easy to grow and garden salsa can be prepared in a flash.
Not only the coveted first ripe home-grown tomatoes of the season but the makings of homemade fresh garden salsa:
Tomatoes
purple onion
garlic
jalapenos
Proof positive that you can eat your veggies and LOVE it!
Quick Garden Salsa Preparation
Now folks, you don’t get any more fresh than straight from the garden! It takes no time for the veggies to get chopped or minced and blissfully marinating in the fridge awaiting squeals of delight from the family.
Now let’s be honest, any time you can get your family to get excited about eating their veggies it’s a good day, right?
There’s not really a recipe per se. That’s because I make it slightly different each time based on what I’m in the mood for and the output of the garden.
Customizable Garden Salsa Ingredients
The beauty with this adaptable garden salsa is that you can add the veggies in the proportions your family enjoys.
Like it spicy? Add tons of jalapenos. Are you a garlic fiend? Throw in more garlic cloves. Do purple onions make you sing? Chop up a whole onion and throw it in there.
As I’ve said many times before, if a recipe isn’t delicious, quick and ADAPTABLE it doesn’t last long in my Homestead kitchen recipe files.
Assembling Garden Salsa – No Recipe Needed!
Here’s the way I put it all together:
Chop the tomatoes, jalapeno and onion in the proportions we enjoy and place in a bowl.
Mince a clove or two of garlic and add it to the bowl as well.
A quick squeeze of lime juice gives just the right zing.
Sometimes I add a sprinkle of salt and if I have cilantro I’ll chop some and mix it in as well.
After it’s all mixed together put the bowl in the fridge for an hour or more to blend the flavors before enjoying.
What Goes With Homemade Garden Salsa?
When I make homemade garden salsa it’s often paired with such dishes as:
Quick Homemade Pita Chips (using plain flour tortillas!)
Jumbo Sheet Pan Quesadillas
And MORE!
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So go ahead and put that garden goodness to good use – whip up this garden-fresh salsa today. Ole’!
~TxH~
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YUM! Love that you added garlic to this! Oh, and yes, purple onions do make me sing 🙂 Thanks for linking up on Simply Natural Saturdays!
I love a good salsa! I’d love to make some. You’ve reminded my I need to get off the computer and water tomatoes! Enjoy your week.
We’re still waiting for our tomatoes to grow 🙁 Hopefully when they finally come in we can make some awesome salsa.
I love homemade salsa, especially from the garden. I am waiting for my tomatoes to get red and will definitely be making some!
Nothing better than getting your hands dirty in growing and using your own veggies.
I love quick and easy recipes like this. :} thank U. Can make to personal liking whether small or large batch and can add whatever trips your trigger and served with fried tortilla chips
can also add………
2 tablespoons red wine vinegar
1 tablespoon olive oil
avocado, peeled and diced
salt and freshly ground pepper
I didn’t plant any tomatoes this summer, thinking it would be like any other summer and that they would just FRY in the North Texas heat. And what do you know…. it’s in the 60’s this morning and we’ve just had 3 inches of rain. Oh well! I know how you feel about blogging time, I’ve finally gotten back to the blog and will try to keep it up after I go back to work in a few weeks.
Your salsa looks yummy. I love the chunkiness. Can’t wait to try your salsa receipe. Have you ever canned it? If so how did you do it? Thanks from one Texas girl to another!
Well howdy Sheryl! I’ve made & canned salsa before, but not this recipe. When canning salsa it’s super important to follow a canning recipe and not to increase the ratio of tomatoes to veggies as this can create an unsafe canning environment. This garden salsa is mixed up very casually and based on what’s going gangbusters in the garden. (usually with copious amounts of jalapeno since I like it spicy!)
It’s always a sweet pleasure to visit your blog! I love the notion of using what you have and going with what sounds good at the moment. And yes, if it get’s people excited about eating veggies – that’s a winner in my book too.
Thanks for sharing the gorgeous veggies from your garden. Have a beautiful day!
Without question, fresh made salsa is so much better than out of a plastic jar!
I cook most of my food from scratch, but I’ve never made my own salsa. For some reason, peppers scare me. You’ve just about got me convinced to give it a try. I do know how much I love fresh salsa. I think it’s time for me to step out of my comfort zone………….
Christina, if you’re concerned about the salsa being too spicy you can tone down the heat on the peppers by removing the seeds and white membranes from the inside. Many people find it helpful to wear rubber gloves during this process to keep the pepper juice from their hands but with a thorough hand scrubbing with soap & water afterwards I’ve never had a problem myself. Give it a try!
I love homemade fresh salsa. We grow lots of tomatoes and peppers in our garden each year and much of it goes into salsa. Nice post! Visiting here from the Get Fit Friday blog hop.
I love homemade salsa! I’m a terrible gardener, but thankfully our local farmers market has a great selection of fresh veggies. My husband makes his special salsa recipe, jars it up and gives it out to our friends. A cute little mason jar of salsa makes a nice impromptu gift!
I’ll be jumping into the world of vegetable gardening next year and I can’t wait for things like homemade salsa!!
We have two raised beds which we have 8 tomato plants and herbs. This year we also are trying to grow some onions and in the fall we are going to plant garlic.