Snack Time: Homemade Chips & Salsa
by Sep 26th, 2010 // Appetizers, Recipes, Snacks
Snack Time: Homemade Chips & Salsa
My dear friend, Anne, suggested we make homemade salsa for snack week. I thought it was an excellent idea because I knew we could customize all the ingredients. She insisted that it must be made with cilantro – this really made me laugh because cilantro is like krypotnite to my husband. I swear if you made a giant bowl of soup and only put one leaf in he could still taste it. So, cilantro FREE salsa was our plan.
My kid immediately got to work squeezing some lemons and limes. This is one of his favorite activities.
Anne suggested we use grape tomatoes and just throw them in the food processor. This was a brilliant idea.
Oh, and we upped the ante by baking our own tortilla chips. We used a small pizza cutter to make the triangles in the corn tortillas. What do you think my kid liked best? Now for the recipe…
Homemade Chips & Salsa
Prep Time: 15 mins Cooking Time: 10 to 12 mins
Salsa Ingredients:
2 cups grape tomatoes
1/2 onion (coarsely chopped)
juice of 1/2 lime
juice of 1/2 lemon
1/2 tablespoon apple cider vinegar
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 clove garlic
1/2 small jalapeno pepper coarsely chopped (optional)
salt and pepper (to taste)
Chip Ingredients:
6 corn tortillas
olive oil cooking spray
salt
Preheat the oven to 375 degrees. Neatly pile the corn tortillas and use a pizza cutter to cut them into 6 even triangles. Spread triangles out on a Silpat covered cookie sheet and spray with cooking spray. Sprinkle with salt and bake for 10 to 12 minutes or until crispy. Meanwhile, put all salsa ingredients in a food processor and chop until it reaches desired consistency. Scoop salsa out into a bowl and serve with chips.
I know my kiddo would like the chips best too!
Yay, a cilantro free salsa!!!
Haven't made my own salsa in so long but I'll have to break out the processor now. Grape tomatoes are brilliant.
Great idea with the pizza cutter !
I think we could eat chips and salsa everyday!
I've never made this with Apple Cider Vinegar–thanks for the recipe!
Homemade salsa always seemed too time-consuming to me, but this is so easy. Thanks for the recipe.
Looking at the first photo, I almost wanted to grab a chip and give a dip. The color is wonderful and tasty looking.
someday, when your cilantro-averse hubby is out of the country, try it with cilantro. it takes this to a whole new level.
Thank you for inspiring me to bust out my handy dandy Tupperware chopper thingy! I bought it about 2 years ago and had great aspirations of making homemade salsa. Then I forgot about it. For 2 years. It's time to start living my salsa dreams
I need to buy a food processor
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