One of our favorite foods in the hot & spicy food world is salsa. Whether you call it salsa roja/verde, pico de gallo, salsa cruda, picante sauce, or just plain salsa…it’s all generally pretty good. We’ve tried quite a bit in our time, and even more over the past couple of years as we’ve done our tasting & reviewing. There is certainly a divergence in style from fresh salsa versus cooked salsa, in everything from style, shelf life (if any), relative cost, availability, and taste. We want to know what YOU, our devoted readers, like & look for when you go salsa shopping. Feel free to free-form your comments below as well.
As for us, we like ‘em both. Much of what we eat is the cooked salsa, but we won’t pass up a well-made, tasty fresh salsa either. We find the good ones (fresh) harder to come by, but usually worth the cost when we do.
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I usually have problems with salsa because the prolific use of onions (which I usually have to counteract with Imodium AD). So I would have to vote for a new catigory…my own homemade fresh salsa.
Comment fired by Jonathan Passow — November 6, 2006- 11:27 pm
personally, i like my salsa a bit on the thinner side, which generally has been my experience with fresh salsas. I worked with a gal that made a killer hab salsa. I have the recipe on a sticky note somewhere in my office at work, just don’t know where
Comment fired by Ryan@angrypepper — November 7, 2006- 10:35 am
I love fresh when Darrell makes it for me! I just don’t like chunks.
Comment fired by Candy — November 7, 2006- 3:17 pm
Fresh or cooked it doesnt matter as long as there is lots of habenero and lots of garlic
Comment fired by Bud — November 8, 2006- 10:40 pm