Feb 23 2011
Kiwi Salsa – Taste&Create – recipe
For this month’s Taste&Create I was partnered with Seduce Your Tastebuds…. who has a whole slew of exotic dishes on her blog. I searched through her blog for a while not able to decide on exactly which dish I would make – they all looked so good – until I came across her Kiwi Salsa recipe and I knew then and there that that was the one I had to make.
I LOVE salsa: fresh tomato salsa, cooked tomato salsa, tomatillo salsa, roasted tomato salsa, mango salsa…but I had never heard of kiwi salsa. And, I thought that it was quite fitting since I am currently on vacation in Texas to go ahead and make a salsa.
I was very pleasantly surprised by how well all the flavors harmonize together. The acidity and subtle sweetness of the kiwis left little need for added acidity (lemon juice) and perfectly replace the traditional tomato. I did add more kiwi than the recipe originally called for because I thought it tasted good, but needed more kiwi to really hold the name kiwi salsa, and I reduced the onion to 1/4th of an onion, which I still found a bit over powering – I will reduce to 1 Tablespoon in the future. The cucumber gave the perfect body to the salsa helping to diminish the heat of the huge jalapeño I added.
As opposed to PJ, I went ahead and threw my ingredients, individually, into the food processor because I don’t like chunky salsa since I feel I don’t get all the flavors in one bite. That and (sorry mom) my mom has a tiny knife that I don’t get along with when chopping vegetable…I really miss my cook’s knife.
Ironically enough, I didn’t have any tortilla chips on hand to go with the salsa, but crackers work well too. I will be using the salsa tomorrow as an accompaniment to fish which I can’t wait to try because I think they will go perfectly together. I will keep you informed on that!
Here’s my version of PJ’s recipe: Continue Reading »
