🍲 Pico de Gallo

Mexican · 9 ingredients · 5 steps

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Pico de Gallo has two meanings in Mexican cuisine. The most familiar to North Americans is a fresh, tomato-based salad. It is what North Americans usually mean when talking about 'ensalada' or 'tomato ensalada'. This ensalada is never cooked.

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This recipe states no serving size, so the quantities are left exactly as written.

Ingredients

  • 2 cups chopped fresh, seeded tomato
  • ½ cup chopped white or yellow onion
  • 2 tablespoons chopped cilantro
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • 2 teaspoons freshly squeezed lime juice
  • 1 teaspoon ground black pepper
  • 1 ½ tablespoons stemmed, seeded, and minced jalapeño or other chiles
  • 1 small clove of garlic, minced
  • Hot sauce, to taste

Method

  1. Wash vegetables and cilantro.
  2. Combine vegetables, mixing well.
  3. Add salt, pepper, chiles, lime juice, and garlic.
  4. Add hot sauce as desired.
  5. Let stand 30 minutes to allow flavors to meld.
Where this came from. Adapted from Pico de Gallo in the Wikibooks Cookbook, written by its contributors and published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page changes the layout and nothing else: the ingredients, the quantities and the steps are the source's. If you improve on it, the Cookbook welcomes edits.

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