Salsa Verde Recipe

Every once in awhile, my husband decides that he wants to cook. This is always very exciting because he’s a great cook! 

One day, while he was getting our weekly vegetables at a local farm stand we have by our house, he became inspired by the tomatillos they were selling and impulsively bought a bunch. He came home and enthusiastically told me his grand plans to make salsa.

Of course, his “grand plans” to make salsa turned into both of us making salsa, which actually made it pretty fun! Though this sounds romantic, we were also trying to manage our energetic toddler at the same time, so chaotic is more how I would describe it.

We had dinner plans at my parents’ house that night and we wanted to share our creation with them. Since my mom is allergic to lime and doesn’t like things too spicy, we made a few different batches of salsa. And boy, did they turn out delicious!

This Salsa Verde has a secret ingredient in it that, I believe, is what makes it taste sooo good. Are you ready for it? We added avocado! This thickened the salsa up and increased the deliciousness factor. Avocado just makes everything better!

Some Recommendations:

• Ideally, Drew would have made this Salsa Verde with the addition of roasted jalapeno and vinegar, but for the purposes of this recipe, we did not include it. If you like spicy salsa and a more vinegar taste, add it in to get the true Drew’s Salsa Verde Recipe experience!
• I highly recommend making this Salsa Verde in advance because it gets better over (a little) time.
• For a slightly different flavor, you could add cumin. I am very particular about the flavor of cumin because it is so strong, so I purposely opted to not include it in this recipe.
• Have a Homemade Salsa Party whenever we can have parties again! Each guest could bring a batch of homemade salsa and you could turn it into a competition to see which is the best salsa.