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[thebitterguy]

Well, after the successful salsa incident a couple weeks ago, we're doing a salsa cooking competition at work on Tuesday. I'll be taking a serving of my homemade Salsa for the event.

However, I also, in a moment of weakness, bought a quart of tomatillos at the market yesterday in order to make salsa verde.

Holy Crap that was a mistake. You ever see the huge variety of salsa verde recipes out there? Boil the tomatillos, broil the tomatillos, toss them straight into a blender. Man.

I may broil them, just because roasted flavour tends to go over well with this crowd.

Anyone got any guidance? Good recipies that have worked for you? I got a couple serranos and a couple jalepenos as well as some frozen cilantro and can get some fresh if need be.

Comments

[easyalchemy.livejournal.com]

I don't remember which recipe I used for mine,but for the love of all that is holy, don't add sugar. Tomatillos have more than enough naturally occuring sugar, and I blindly followed the recipe and ended up with a verde that was sweet like jam. Gross.

[thebitterguy]

Okay, thanks for that info. I'll make sure to skip the sugar.

[absinthe-dot-ca.livejournal.com]

Not sure about tomatillos, but I generally grill most things that go into my salsas (peppers, tomato, etc)

[thebitterguy]

Grilling or roasting are both good. I kind of wish I had a gas jet of some kind or just a ktichen blowtorch I could roast them on manually.

[(Anonymous)]

I boil 2 jalapenos and half a decent sized onion, oh, and some garlic, for 5 minutes, toss in a good double handful of halved tomatillos, cook a little longer. Drain most of the liquid, add some salt, dump in food processor. As a bonus, if made the same day as guacamole, add a little avocado at this point.

Roasted tomatillos would also be good. Roasting is good for everything.

[greenlion.livejournal.com]

I boil 2 jalapenos and half a decent sized onion, oh, and some garlic, for 5 minutes, toss in a good double handful of halved tomatillos, cook a little longer. Drain most of the liquid, add some salt, dump in food processor. As a bonus, if made the same day as guacamole, add a little avocado at this point.

Roasted tomatillos would also be good. Roasting is good for everything.

[thebitterguy]

Does boiling lose any of the flavour?

I have no ideas what tomatillos taste like, so I don't know how any of the processed would affect them.