Prep Time: 10 minutes

Cook Time: 05 minutes

Servings: 3-4 Servings

Delight your kids with this homemade salsa sauce recipe and serve with their favourite snacks. Ditch the store-bought sauce loaded with colours and preservatives.

Ingredients

• Ripe tomatoes: 8 (medium-sized)
• Garlic:  4-5 cloves
• Green chilli: 1
• Lemon: 1/2 (juiced)
• Rock salt: a pinch
• Garlic powder: 1/2 tsp (optional)
• Coriander leaves: a fistful
• Onion: 1 
• Dried red chillis: 1-2

Method

• Take 4 tomatoes and chop them finely
• Chop onion, coriander leaves, chilli and garlic
• Mix them all and add salt and garlic powder.
• Give them a good mix and keep aside.
• Now, take the remaining 4 tomatoes and 2 dried red chillis.
• Dry roast them on a pan or tawa.
• Remove the chillis when they change color and keep roasting the tomatoes. Turn around to roast well from all sides
• Once the tomatoes are nicely charred, let them cool
• Remove the skin of the roasted tomatoes, chop roughly and transfer them into a mixie jar.
• Add the red chillis and blend.
• Add this paste to the chopped vegetables
• Add the juice of lemon to the above mixture
• Refrigerate and serve 

Eating Guide:

• Food group: Veggies
• Can be eaten with meals; easily goes well with both western and Indian cuisine.
• Adjust the hotness by varying the number of chillies as per your liking

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