Salsa – the healthy alternative

Salsa is the Spanish word for sauce, and in Mexico it refers to sauces that are used as an ingredient for a variety of dishes and as a condiment. Salsas have been known for a thousand years in Mexico, most of the ingredients can be attributed to Spain’s influence on Mexico. In the United States, salsa resembles a spicy tomato sauce from Mexico called salsa cruda, or raw salsa, and is used primarily as a condiment, especially with tortilla chips. It’s all a matter of taste – and what salsa recipes ingredients you have on hand when an urgent craving for chips and salsa strikes.

Salsa as we know it today is a fairly well-balanced blend of both Old World and New World ingredients. Tomatoes, tomatillos, and chilies found in salsa are native to this hemisphere, while all the other ingredients, such as onions, garlic, and other spices, are Old World in origin.

The term (basic salsa) is firey (delicate to the asbestos) and tomatoey with plenty of fresh chilies, onion, cilantro, garlic and salt.Most salsas are especially spicy, due to the prominence of hot chili peppers in their ingredients. Literally hundreds of such sauces exist, including piquant fruit salsas.

Cold or hot, cooked or raw, chunky or smooth, the variety of salsas recipes are limitless and yet to be imagined.

Low in fat and full flavor for a healthy alternative to heavy sauces.
I encourage you to have some fun, experiment by using the variety of traditional and contemporary ingredients as a guide, combined with your imagination get ready to enjoy the surprising and delicious homemade salsa creations that you and your family will be spooning on everything.

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