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condiment My Habanero Salsa Recipe

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HotHabaneroLady

INGREDIENTS

I strongly recommend using fresh ingredients for this, especially the tomatoes. If you use canned tomatoes, this will just taste like something you could get at the store. Mixing different colored tomatoes is a great idea. I sometimes like to use a blend of red and yellow types for the blend of different flavors.

4 orange habaneros
1 tablespoon shredded carrots
1/3 cup diced red onion
1 lime
1/2 cup of diced bell pepper with seeds removed
5 1/4 cups of diced tomatos
1 tablespoon fresh cilantro
1 tablespoon fresh basil
1 teaspoon sea salt
1 cup water
1 cup white distilled vinegar

Preparation:
1. Mince the habaneros as finely as possible and place in a mixing bowl.
2. Slice the lime into quarters and squeeze the juice into the mixing bowl.
3. Chop the basil and add it to the mixing bowl.
4. Add the remaining ingredients to the mixing bowl and mix well.
5. Place the salsa in the refrigerator. Refrigerate for at least 10 hours to allow the flavors to blend.
6. (optional) Drain the liquid before serving. It will have more heat if you don't, but it will also be swimming!

Makes roughly 6 cups of salsa.

To adjust the heat level, increase or decrease the number of habaneros. You can also increase the heat by using red habaneros instead of orange ones, but the flavor of red ones doesn't seem to blend as well as the orange ones. When I make this for myself, I use about ten orange habaneros.

WARNING: This salsa is extremely high in fiber. It may cause sudden urgent needs to use the restroom if your system is not used to handling so much fiber at once. Do not eat right before driving,
 
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HotHabaneroLady said:
WARNING: This salsa is extremely high in fiber. It may cause sudden urgent needs to use the restroom if your system is not used to handling so much fiber at once. Do not eat right before driving,
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hahaha... i thought fiber had the opposite effect
 
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Looks good.
I wouldn't have thought adding a cup of water would be necessary, but then you drain it, so...
6 cups would last almost all day at my house :D
 
Have you ever smoked hot peppers? 
With wood smoke, not in a bong.
 
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JJJessee said:
Looks good.
I wouldn't have thought adding a cup of water would be necessary, but then you drain it, so...
6 cups would last almost all day at my house :D
 
Have you ever smoked hot peppers? 
With wood smoke, not in a bong.
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The cup of water is to dilute the vinegar. My first try did not include the water and the vinegar was just way too strong. I like a vinegar taste, but it was too much.

No, I never have smoked hot peppers. I find that the more I have, the more I use. I grew about ten habaneros lays year and still ended up buying more from the farmers market. So I never had left overs to preserve. So this year I am growing 15 orange habaneros, 6 Caribbean red habaneros, plus about 4 each if the tabasco and 5 color peppers. So that's more peppers . . . But I may start even more before it gets too late.
 
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That's a fair sized grow, with good focus. In ground or container?
Tabs just wouldn't ripen for me last year. Not doing them again soon.
Of Chocolates, Carib Red, and Orange Habs last year, Chocolates did the best for me, but wasn't wild about the flavor. This year I'm just doing JAs for my Hab fix.
There is a whole world of just Habs in this forum.
 
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JJJessee said:
That's a fair sized grow, with good focus. In ground or container?
Tabs just wouldn't ripen for me last year. Not doing them again soon.
Of Chocolates, Carib Red, and Orange Habs last year, Chocolates did the best for me, but wasn't wild about the flavor. This year I'm just doing JAs for my Hab fix.
There is a whole world of just Habs in this forum.
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It's a mixture of ground and containers. I have three growing locations. My backyard, my containers, and then a community garden plot that my mother and I are doing as a mother-daughter project. It's halfway between our two homes, so good for both of us. :). All three locations will have some of the hot peppers. I actually need to start some more tabasco and 5 color pepper plants.

I actually have more than 40 herbs, fruits, and veggies on my full grow list. I put the whole thing in my profile. My goal is to buy as little produce as possible. :) And I'd like to have more habaneros than I can eat this year so that I can preserve some!
 
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