Tomatillo Salsa
This green salsa is delicious with chips, or any place you would use red salsa. We use tomatillos we picked up at the farmer's market so they're nice and fresh. Tomatillos look like small green tomatoes - they are in the same family, but are citrusy and tart. They can be eaten raw, but cooking them mellows their taste and softens their skins. We boil them here but they can also be roasted. Originally served as part of: Green Eggs, Hold the Ham.
Ingredients
- 10 small golf-ball size tomatillos
- kosher salt
- 1/4 large onion
- 1 clove garlic
- 1/2 large fresh chile jalapeno
- 1 tablespoon leaves cilantro (cleaned)
- 1/2 medium lime
Instructions
We start off by preparing the tomatillos. We pull off the husks and rinse the sticky residue off the green flesh. We put them in a pot and cover with cold water. We bring the water to a boil, add a little salt, and boil for 5-10 minutes until tender when pierced with a knife. We use a slotted spoon to remove the tomatillos as they are done and put them in a medium bowl.
Meanwhile, we chop the onion coarsely yielding 1/2 cup. We mince the garlic with a little salt and mince the 1/2 of a jalapeno.
In our food processor, we combine the cooked tomatillos, onion, garlic, a little more salt, and the cilantro leaves. We puree until almost smooth, leaving it a bit chunky for texture. We pour into a bowl.
When we are ready to eat, we squeeze the 1/2 of lime into the green salsa, stir, and serve.
Ingredients
- 10 small tomatillos
- kosher salt
- ¼ large onion
- 1 clove garlic
- ½ large jalapeño
- 1 tbsp cilantro leaves
- ½ medium lime
Instructions
What's a kid job?
A Kid job is a step kids can help with, with a grown-up nearby, not one they do on their own. Every kid is different, so go by what your child can do rather than by age. Roughly:
- Little ones (about 2 to 4) can stir, pour in ingredients a grown-up has measured, tear lettuce, wash vegetables and sprinkle toppings.
- Older kids (about 5 to 8) can also measure and level, crack eggs, whisk, roll and cut out dough, and put things together.
- Bigger kids can read the recipe aloud, keep track of the timer, and take on more of the cooking as they're ready.
Steps with a knife, microplane, skewers, stove, oven, grill or hot oil, or with raw meat, poultry or seafood, are marked Grown-up. Kids can still watch those, from a safe distance.
Kid job
Pull the husks off the tomatillos and rinse off the sticky residue. Put them in a pot and cover with cold water.
Bring to a boil, add a little salt, and boil 5 to 10 minutes, until tender. Lift them into a bowl with a slotted spoon as they’re done.
Grown-up
Meanwhile, chop the onion (about ½ cup), mince the garlic with a little salt, and mince the jalapeño. Wash your hands.
Pulse the tomatillos, onion, garlic, jalapeño, a little more salt and the cilantro in a food processor until nearly smooth but still a little chunky.
Kid job
Just before serving, squeeze in the lime and stir.