Pick your peppers like Peter Piper, give ’em a smoke bath, and blend them together with tomatoes, garlic, onions, lime juice, and cilantro and you’ve got yourself a fresh and tasty salsa to dip your chips in.
Smoke in Our Lights Salsa
Few things are better than fresh peppers, tomatoes, onions, garlic, and lime juice blended together into a salsa. Smoke your peppers and veggies and you'll take it to a whole other level.
- Fresh peppers
- 4 Tomatillos
- 2 Tomatoes
- 1 Red onion
- 4 cloves Garlic
- 2 Limes
- Kosher salt (to taste)
- 1 bunch Cilantro
Fire up your smoker to 225 degrees indirect using your choice of wood. You're going to be smoking peppers and veggies, not meat, so you need to be gentle with them.
Cut your tomatoes and onion in half and remove the husk from the tomatillos
Place all of your veggies and peppers onto your smoker grate and let go for about 60-90 minutes until they've collected plenty of smoke and are nice and tender. You just don't want them to burn.
Place them all into your blender along with a few cloves of garlic (I like a lot, but use less if you don't like as much), juice from a couple of limes, and a bunch of chopped cilantro. Blend well.
Salt to taste.
I purposely didn’t list what type of peppers to use because that’s the fun of making salsa. You can use what you have on hand, or in your garden, or you can go to the grocery store and have fun picking out the types of peppers you like based on flavor or heat level.