Tex Mex

Salsa Roja Casera

Name: Salsa Roja Casera
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 6 servings
Cuisine: Tex Mex
Ingredients: 6 roma tomatoes; 2 dried guajillo chiles; 1 dried ancho chiles; 2 garlic cloves; 1/4 onion; 1/2 tsp salt

Marisol @marisol_elpaso

Salsa Roja Casera 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.

30 min Easy Vegan Vegetarian Gluten free Dairy free Halal Pescatarian

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

6 roma tomatoes
2 dried guajillo chiles
1 dried ancho chiles
2 garlic cloves
1/4 onion
1/2 tsp salt

How to cook it

Char the tomatoes and unpeeled garlic in a dry skillet over medium-high heat, turning occasionally, until blackened in spots, about 8 minutes, then peel the garlic once cool enough to handle.
Toast the dried chiles in the same skillet for about 30 seconds per side, then soak them in hot water until softened, about 10 minutes, and drain.
Blend the charred tomatoes and garlic with the softened chiles, onion, and salt until fairly smooth.
Simmer the salsa in a saucepan for 5 minutes to deepen the flavor, then cool before serving.

Watch how to cook Salsa Roja Casera

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

Serve it with

A Tex Mex dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Salsa Roja Casera, 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. Salsa Roja Casera carries none of them. That is a checked answer rather than an ingredient list nobody read.

Every tracked allergen in Salsa Roja Casera
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: 7 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

Salsa Roja Casera takes about 30 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.