The BEST Green Tomato SALSA!! - Salsa Verde Style!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 ก.พ. 2025
- We have an overload of green tomatoes so we put them to use by creating salsa verde which was preserved. This will allow us to enjoy it throughout the year.
Thank you for taking the time to watch.
* RECIPE to make 3 Pints*
Ingredients
7 Cups chopped cored and peeled green tomatoes
5-10 - Jalapenos, seeded and finely chopped
2 Cups finely chopped red onion
2 cloves of garlic, finely chopped
1/2 cup of lime juice
1/2 cup loosely packed finely chopped cilantro
2 tsp ground cumin
1 tsp dried oregano
1 tsp salt
1 tsp fresh ground black pepper
Directions -
1. Prepare canner, jars and lids
2. In large saucepan, combine tomatoes, peppers, onion, garlic and lime. Bring to a boil over medium high heat, stirring constantly. Once at a boil, stir in cilantro, cumin, oregano, salt and pepper. Reduce heat and boil gently, stirring frequently for approximately 5 minutes.
3. Ladle hot salsa into prepared hot jars, leaving 1/2 inch headspace. Remove air bubbles, adjust head space if necessary by adding additional hot salsa. Wipe rim, center lid, screw on band to finger tip tight.
4. Place jars in canner, ensuring they are completely covered with water. Bring to a boil and process jars for 20 minutes. Remove canner lid, wait 5 minutes, then remove jars, cool and store.
5. Once cool, grab some chips, dig on in and enjoy!!!!
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You're absolutely right, the best verde salsa. My family loves this stuff. We didn't make enough last year and went through it within weeks. Thank you.
Awesome, I’m glad you liked it. We thoroughly enjoyed it as well. I was putting it on all sorts of dishes in addition to chips. I really liked it with eggs in the morning. Thanks for the feedback.
Great video!!! Not only informative but love seeing a dad interact with his kids like you do. So many don't have that. What a blessing you are to your family! And thank you for the recipe, I can't wait to try this! God Bless!!!
Thank you. The prepping of the tomatoes is what takes up most of the time. After that it’s all down hill. Mine came out very mild. I think I will add a little more heat next time. Thanks for the kind words. Take care and thanks for spending time with us.
of all of the recipes I search this is by far the best.
Thank you. I really liked and we ate it all. I plan to add a little more spice with more jalapeños next time. Other than that it was great.
Love this! What a fantastic dad and husband! Great recipe 😊
Thank you, it’s always more fun when the kids get involved.
first time to your channel. Good job daddy O. I am going to try this we love green tomatoes.
Excellent video from start to finish. Practical, informative and relevant. Thanks; nothing like growing your own food, processing it and sharing all that goodness with family. Again thanks for sharing. God bless.
Thank you, I appreciate those kind words. We actually just cracked the last jar open last week. Overall I’d actually add a little more heat next time. Flavors were very good, but it was very mild. I’d prefer just a little kick. Appreciate your time spent with us. Take care.
trying this today, awesome family vibes, happy days
I hope it turns out well. We enjoyed ours. I added a little more heat the 2nd time I did it and roasted the tomatoes in the oven which made for easy peeling as well. Both times it was good. Thanks for watching.
What a joy your video is! I canned for years out of my own garden and then had an enforced break for several years. Looking forward to gardening and putting by once again. Also, looking forward to more lovely videos from you and your family!
Thank you for the kind words. We’re fairly new to the canning process so we’re just learning as we go. It can be exhausting, but the end rewards are so great. We’re glad to have you along and appreciate your time spent with us.
Perfect video! I have an abundance of greenies that I’ve been looking for a good fresh tasting recipe. You remind me if my hubby-he’s so good with our babies. Thanks for sharing your ideas and sweet family!
Thank you. I hope it goes well for you if you end up making it. The spice level from the jalapeño wasn’t as much as I’d personally would have preferred so I will add more jalapeño next time other than that we’ve enjoyed it very much. Thanks for watching and appreciate the kind words.
I'm definitely going to make this. Thanks for the great video!
Great, hope you enjoy it once you make it. I personally would’ve increased the heat a little bit, but it was still delicious.
I’ve been contemplating what all to do with my green tomatoes that didn’t ripen. I just made a huge batch of this and damn it’s good!
Added just a bit more salt and a couple Serrano peppers to kick the heat up. Most excellent!! TY for the recipe Rocky Creek!!
Awesome! I’m glad it worked out well for you. It’s definitely a baseline recipe and can be adjusted in several ways. Thanks for sharing what you added and your experience.
First time on you’re site. You made it very simple and I appreciate you telling exact measurements of the ingredients. . My project for tomorrow. Thanks again😊
Thanks for visiting us. I hope you like the final product. We certainly enjoy it especially on chicken tacos and eggs.
Your channel just came up on my feed. I looked through your videos. Can't wait to watch them. I will be making pickled green tomatoes slices and green tomato salsa this week. For the salsa I plan to roast my green tomatoes, onion and garlic for about 15 minutes @450°F. Your kids are so cute.
Thanks for stopping by. I tried roasting tomatoes when I made traditional red salsa last year and I truly think that’s an easier process. I like the idea of roasting the other items too. Thanks for sharing
You have beautiful children and looks like dad is a great cook. Thanks for the recipe!
Thank you. I enjoy cooking and when the kids help it makes it so much better. Thanks for watching.
Very cool. I’m gonna give this one a try tomorrow 👍
Great, we hope you like it. We’ve certainly enjoyed it over the years. The only thing I really adjust at times is the amount of jalapeño I add to adjust heat.
Congratulations! This is the first video that actually followed the Ball recipe because you peeled the green tomatoes as recommended. I can't tell you how many people that don't peel them. It is necessary to remove the bacterial load that comes on the skins.
Thanks buddy. I’m far from an expert so following directions is important. Last thing I want is to make someone sick. Appreciate your kind words and for taking the time to watch.
Making this 2 morrow. Love your kids, thx for the recipe.
I hope you like it. We certainly do. Thanks and appreciate you taking time to watch.
I made it, it is delish!! I just added a little more pepper for hotness. Thanks
I made some last year. I put it in my white chicken chili. It's so good!
Ooh that sounds like a good use. I may need to try that. Winter is coming and we do a lot of chilis during then
New subscriber here. Looking for recipes for Green Tomatoes. Thanks for making it look easy.
Welcome! We’re glad to have you along with us and hope you enjoy the recipe. We have used this one several times now. Sometimes I add a bit more jalapeños for a little extra kick.
Great video!
Thank you 😊
Adorable! Thanks so much. I will try it today.
Thank you, we hope the recipe does well for you and thanks for spending time with us.
@@RockyCreekHomestead it was delicicious
solid video, man. first time watching, but I enjoyed. Side note, make your own baby food everyone. I went with store bought bison and elk to start our baby and I probably did not save a whole lot over what I could buy, but I was able to verify everything I put in it and we overspent on the fancy grocery store organics.
Planning to make this. Your children are adorable!
Thank you. I hope you enjoy it. Let me know if you make any modifications that make it better. It’s definitely a very versatile recipe that can easily be tweaked
Those people who gave thumbs down in a video like this must have a serious mental problem.
New subscriber here. I love your videos. I hope your wife can say hello some day. My husband and I just bought half acre. Here in Ontario Canada, the price of land is too expensive.
God bless you
Thank you! You’d be surprised the reasons why some people don’t like some videos. I don’t take it personal 😁. We will just keep doing what we enjoy. Thanks for watching and appreciate you spending time with us.
I made you’re salsa it is delicious. I made 12 batches splitting it up with different amounts of heat (jalapeños ) due to different members of our family Liking different heats and I have to say they are all yummy. Thank you for sharing❤ . This was my first time making green tomato salsa. I also made red tomato salsa so we are good lol
That’s awesome, so glad it came out good. It’s a nice change up from traditional salsas. Thanks for sharing your experience. Enjoy and thanks again
Looks good brother....never tried with green tomatoes only tomatillos got a new try now...thanks
Thanks. I’d add a little more heat in the future, but other than that it came out really good.
Looks so good!!
Thank you. It came out great. Only change I’ve made since this video was I added more jalapeño for increased heat. Other than that we love it.
I ran across this video earlier you are a god-sent that recipe is awesome thank you so much.👍
Thank you, I appreciate those kind words. We enjoy the recipe. The only modification I’ve done since this video is I tend to add a little more jalapeño to increase the heat a little. Thanks for watching and May you have a wonderful day.
this looks amazing, will definitely be giving it a try! thank you so much for sharing with us :)
Keep up the good work!
Thank you, we enjoyed it. I’d add a bit more heat next time but overall we were pleased and ate all of it over time.
Cool recipe. Thanks for sharing it. God Bless. 😊😊😊
Absolutely, thanks for watching and checking it out
@@RockyCreekHomestead. No thanks Need. I’m happy I found your channel, and lots of helpful things for me and pretty sure more people as well.
Can ask you one question. Do you really have to peel the Tomatoes. ?? Thanks
It’s really a preference thing. I don’t care much for how the skins turn out once the tomatoes are cooked. The skins seem to fall off from the tomatoes and curl. The texture of the skin pieces seem chewy. This is at least my experience when doing sauces. I’ve never tried the salsa without pealing though. The salsa isn’t cooked near as long as a sauce so it may not be as much of an issue.
@@RockyCreekHomestead oh okey. That seems like what I thought. The tomatoes skins after cooking are not nice, I agree with you. :-))
But sometimes with the recipes it’s hard to know if it’s part of the trick and because of preserving it though. But thanks for your quick answering 😊😊
Great thanks I've been looking for a recipe for green tomatoes from my mum's greenhouse! Will try this week end of sunshine in Scotland now ! We don'g get tomoteos here .
Wow that’s interesting. I’ve always wanted to visit Scotland. Hopefully you’ll like it. I personally added a little more jalapeño the second time I made it to give it a little more kick.
High an I found this going to make this thanks brother 🇨🇦. Just finished it turned out great ❤️ fantastic thanks
Great, hope you like it. Another easy way to peel is to roast them in the oven, skins slide off easy then. I’d add more jalapeño in the future but other than that we’ve really enjoyed it.
Great job !! Watching the kids and making a great video. You’re super dad!
I appreciate the kind words. I thank you for watching and spending time with us.
This looks awesome! Thank You!
Thank you for watching. It was great and we ate all that we canned. I plan to add more spice to it next time though. I’m thinking more jalapeño and some cumin should be a good tweak.
I was just gifted a 5 gallon bucket of tomatoes!! Totally doing this tonight!! Thank you. I also liked and subscribed!!!
That’s an awesome gift. We hope it turns out well for you. Mine didn’t come out very spicy. I personally will increase the spice for my future batch. Otherwise I really liked it. Thanks for spending time with our family.
Wow this just popped up on my feed and I was just thinking about what I could do with green tomatoes! Can you use any type of green tomatoes or a combination? Thank you for such great step by step instructions
Good job Dad!!!
Thank you 😊
Thank you so very much for this. I am a complete " newbie " at doing this and this is a great recipe . I am only making a couple small preserving jars and will see how it tastes. If it works out well then I will do some more. I am suscribing to your TH-cam channel.
We’ve enjoyed our salsa thus far. We’ve ate about 3 jars so far. I hope it comes out well for you as well. We’re glad to have you and thank you for taking time to watch and to spend time with us. Take care and ask away if we can be of any help.
Yum! I need to make some.
I usually just roast the tomatillos, onion, garlic, and a mix of peppers - jalapeños, poblanos, serranos. Once they’re roasted, I put everything in the blender and add the seasonings, fresh cilantro, and the juice of a couple of limes.😋
I don’t core or peel the tomatoes. I don’t know if it affects the flavor, but my family really gobble it up.
I need to make this, after all the tomatoes that I picked yesterday, due to us having our first frost.
I’ve never canned. That part makes me nervous 😬.
I actually tried roasting tomato’s for the first time a month or so after making this video. I thought that was an easier process for pealing the tomato’s and I liked the flavor a little more. Your way sounds pretty cool and probably quicker. If I ever want a smoother style, I’ll have to try it.
@@RockyCreekHomestead it’s easier for me since I’m disabled. I find that keeping things simple helps me keep trying. I’m making some salsa verde today and I may even try canning some for the first time. I’m kinda nervous and excited. Wish me luck!🤞
Canning really isn’t too difficult once you do it. I hope it goes well.
the boiling water thing for the skins is called "blanching". Great video :)
Thank you sir. I made some red salsa later in the summer but I roasted those tomatoes and those skins came off super easy! Thanks for watching.
Hey Lil Man....Hey Madison 👋 I gonna save this video for next year. My tomatoes didn't do great this year. Wouldn't have thought about using green tomatoes for this.
The peeling of tomatoes is the time consuming part. After that it went fairly quick. I’m very pleased with it so hope you like it as well if you give it a try one day.
Great video, thank you! Subbed.
Thank you. Welcome and we’re glad to have you.
I don’t know how I came to have it, but one of those tomato core gadgets was in my utensil drawer. I works just great! I had a great tomatoes this year, and the season is winding down, and there will be a passel of green tomatoes in a few days.
Here in T or C New Mexico the tomatoes are still green in October..... The heat in June July and August just nearly killed them.... Picking a lot now and will try your recipe.... A side note. I planted in April.
Oh yea, hard to get them to ripen in high heat. I hope you like the recipe and find good use for them.
Great video. Let's make baby food!! Boil pumpkin until soft then add homemade butter and mash.
Thank you. Thanks for sharing the pumpkin baby food idea.
I prefer green tomatoes rather than tomatillos. We also grow green ripening tomatoes so we have a combination of ripe and unripe that goes into our green salsa and it really rounds out the flavor nicely.
Great to know, I haven’t mixed the two together. I may do that this summer. Thanks for sharing and appreciate you taking time to watch.
Awesome video! Making this tomorrow actually and was wondering if you could just use a food processor. Did you happen to chop the tomatoes with a food processor too?
Once peeled I eventually did use a food processor. I just more pulsated it so that I could keep it fairly chunky. It was very good, they only change I’ve made since is I have added a bit more jalapeño to give it more of a kick. It’s all to personal taste though. Thanks for watching.
@@RockyCreekHomestead Thanks!
As a Yankee, it took me until minute 10 to get used to “tuh-MAY-tuh.” Definitely going to try green salsa with tomatoes instead of tomatillos now.
🤣I have family in New York and they have all kinds of fun with my accent. We ate all we made in this batch. I personally wish I added a little more jalapeño as it was very mild. Taste was great, so I can adjust heat fairly easy in the future. Thanks for watching
Looks amazing. What is the purpose of removing the skins? I’ve seen recipes where some do, some don’t. I can understand removing them for tomato sauce regarding texture but in salsa is it really necessary?
It’s not necessary. Some people don’t like skin texture so it’s definitely just a preference. Definitely would be a big time savor.
I like this thicker version I just picked all my green tomatoes because we are to have a frost it’s been a warning for the last 3 days
Hopefully this recipe will come out well for you. If you like more spice, I would add more peppers than I did. This came out very delicious but very mild. I would have like a little more kick. Good luck with it and thanks for spending time with us.
I find jalapeño peppers to be unreliable for heat, some are very hot, some mild. You either need to taste test each one, or alternatively, use a couple of Serrano or Thai Hot, they are reliably scorching hot. I do like the flavor the jalapeño brings, so if I have them I use them. What I did was make most of my salsa mild, for everyone, and held back 3 pints that I put the Thai Hot into.
The corer is such a simple and awesome tool. I don’t know why I didn’t get one sooner 😂. You are very correct about jalapeños. I love their flavor but it is like Russian roulette sometimes. Maybe I’ll use jalapeño for the flavor and add some of what you recommended to it more to increase heat. Thank you.
You said it was a double recipe of 14 cups of tomatoes but some of the ingredients doesn’t seem like they are doubled. Just wanted to make sure that all the recipe is for the double recipe. Was wanting to make it. Thank you.
I made a double batch in the video and doubled all of the listed ingredients with the exception of the onion. I believe I was a little less than double on that. The recipe listed should be accurate for a single batch. Many people commented saying it came out great so it should work for you. I hope if goes well if you try it and you like it.
I just picked 55# today, Nov 1. We had a hail storm memorial day and a hot dry summer, so everything is running way behind. Five tomato plants I Texas Hill Country...
Wow that’s a pile from 5 plants. Sounds like a lot of people battled a weird summer of weather. Thanks for spending time with us today. I hope the preservation of the 55lbs goes well. Take care
@@RockyCreekHomestead well, I have 25# simmering on the stove right now. Maybe freeze the rest?
I haven’t froze them before, but my grandmother recommended for me to freeze them in the future. She says once they thaw, the skins are easy to remove at that point as well. I used up most of mine between salsa, pasta sauce and chili sauce.
Thank goodness I found this video I’ve watched so many of these making salsa verde and none of them are taking off the outside peel of the tomatoes and I can’t stand that it to me ruins your recipe and is tuff to eat
What is that tool called? The one you use on the tomatoes in the beginning.
Are you referencing the one I was chopping stuff up in? If so that is a 2-4 cup capacity small food processor. It’s Black and Decker brand and I’ve had it for years. I hope that answers your question. Thanks for watching and appreciate your time spent with us.
@@RockyCreekHomesteadNo, I meant that little spoon-like thing that you used in the beginning at around 0:30. It resembled a tiny spoon but with sharp/jagged edges. :)
Oh I’m sorry, that is a tomato corer. It was only a couple dollars at my local Walmart. It worked really well. Not sure if this is the exact same one but it’s just like this www.walmart.com/ip/Tomato-Corer/50289367
@@RockyCreekHomestead Thank you!
Any idea how many kg of green tomatoes you needed to get those 7 cups?
I’m sorry I didn’t weigh them so I’m not really sure.
My notes say 2# tomatoes = 1 Qt.
2# = 1 Qt = 4 Cups
Hope this helps
is there a reason you used a plastic mason jar funnel, instead of a metal one?
It’s what I have and it’s what came with my ball canning kit.
Is there a reason you ask such question?
I thought maybe metal/plastic had some effect in the preservation.
Can i just turn screw jar lids of my relish upside down to seal.thnx..😄🇦🇺🦘
I’ve heard of people putting them upside down, but I’ve never tried it myself.
What about the lime juice. ???
There’s lime juice in it. I added a cup to this batch. It’s in there
@@RockyCreekHomestead yes I saw it in your Kitchen counter. Sorry. I was just done with the canning and they look FANTASTIC, and the little bit leftover tasted really good. I’m happy I found your Chanel/videos with the chickens, the blueberry’s and this recipe.
Thank you so much for sharing. 😊😊😊😊
You made 8 pints, so should I double the recipe?
That is correct, I doubled the recipe when I made this video. The great thing about salsas is you can adjust any of the ingredients to your personal liking or what you have on hand at the time. Thanks for watching and hope it comes out well for you. Take care.
If you double the amount of tomatoes and you keep the rest of the ingredients the same what does this do to the overall recipe.
I would assume it would just have a diluted more tomato flavor. I’ve never tried it though.
@@RockyCreekHomestead you showed original recipe with 7 cups of tomatoes and you decided to use 14 cups that is why I said what I said so did you find a difference in taste without changing the other portions in jalapenos and onions etc and spices
Oh 😂 sorry the video is a bit old and I can’t remember everything about it off top of my head. I enjoyed it just fine the way I did it in the video. I’ve made it again this summer but added a bit more jalapeño and a little more lime just to give it a greater kick of heat. I love the flavor of it though.
Hi don’t see the recipe?
I just double checked it, it’s there. There should be a small arrow tab to the right of the title and once clicked should expand the details for the video and the recipe is listed within.
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