Tex Mex

Pico de Gallo

Name: Pico de Gallo
Total time: 15 min
Yield: 6 servings
Cuisine: Tex Mex
Ingredients: 4 tomato, diced; 1/2 onion, diced; 1 jalapeno, minced; 1/3 cup chopped cilantro; 1 lime; 1/2 tsp salt

Marisol @marisol_elpaso

Pico de Gallo is Tex Mex home cooking, eaten at breakfast, lunch, and dinner. On the plate it is the condiment. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.

15 min Easy Heart healthy Low carb Vegan Vegetarian Gluten free Dairy free Halal Pescatarian

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

4 tomato, diced
1/2 onion, diced
1 jalapeno, minced
1/3 cup chopped cilantro
1 lime
1/2 tsp salt

How to cook it

Combine the tomato, onion, jalapeno, and cilantro in a bowl.
Squeeze in the lime juice and season with salt.
Stir gently and let sit 10 minutes for the flavors to blend before serving.

Watch how to cook Pico de Gallo

Someone making it start to finish, so you can see what the steps look like.

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Serve it with

A Tex Mex dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Pico de Gallo, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

The dish at the centre
- Bean and Cheese Burrito
  
  20 min
The protein alongside
- Black Beans with Cumin and Lime
  
  15 min
What it is eaten with
- Refried Beans
  
  25 min

Safe at your table

Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand. Pico de Gallo carries none of them. That is a checked answer rather than an ingredient list nobody read.

Every tracked allergen in Pico de Gallo
Allergen	In this dish
Peanuts	No
Tree nuts	No
Dairy	No
Gluten	No
Shellfish	No
Eggs	No
Soy	No
Fish	No
Sesame	No
Coconut	No

These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.

What it brings to the plate

Estimated, per serving

Calories: 30 kcal
Protein: 1 g
Carbs: 6 g
Fat: 0 g
Fiber: 1 g
Sugar: 4 g
Sodium: 190 mg
Saturated fat: 0 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

When to cook it

Pico de Gallo takes about 15 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.