Mexican
Salsa Verde (Cooked Green Salsa)
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Salsa Verde (Cooked Green Salsa) is Mexican 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.
Ingredients
The quantities follow this count.
How to cook it
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Boil the tomatillos, serrano chiles, onion, and garlic in water to cover for 8 minutes until the tomatillos turn dull green and soft.
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Drain, reserving a little of the cooking water.
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Blend everything with the cilantro and salt, adding a splash of the reserved water to reach a spoonable consistency.
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Taste and adjust the salt.
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Serve in a bowl on the table. Heat lives here, in the salsa, not in the guisado, and every diner decides for themselves how much to add.
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Serve it with
A Mexican dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Salsa Verde (Cooked Green Salsa), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The dish at the centre
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The protein alongside
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand. Salsa Verde (Cooked Green Salsa) carries none of them. That is a checked answer rather than an ingredient list nobody read.
| 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
- 50 kcal
- Protein
- 2 g
- Carbs
- 8 g
- Fat
- 1 g
- Fiber
- 2 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 Verde (Cooked Green Salsa) 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.
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