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    Help! Tomatillo salsa recipe, quick!

    I need your best tomatillo recipe in the next couple of hours please.
    I haven't got any cilantro leaves which all the recipes I find on line use.
    Its going to be to added to mexican wrap thingys and I'm off in a couple of hours to take it to my inlaws.

    Do you eat it cold or hot (sorry never made a salsa before, or eaten it apart from with crisps)

    Oh, I've got green tomatillos, fresh tomatoes and chillis to use.
    "Orinoco was a fat lazy Womble"

    Please ignore everything I say, I make it up as I go along, not only do I generally not believe what I write, I never remember it either.
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    Just leave out the coriander if you don't have any. Maybe add another green herb though - sure parsley or basil wouldn't kill it, and the green would look nice. Maybe zest the lime a bit too?

    This one looks nice: just pulse through the food processor, or chop by hand and leave for a bit in the 'fridge.

    2 chile peppers, roasted, peeled, and chopped
    1 pound fresh tomatillos, peeled, stems removed, about 10 to 12
    2 fresh chiles, cut in half
    1/2 cup chopped onion
    1 medium clove garlic, minced
    1 teaspoon olive oil
    1 teaspoon lime juice
    1/4 teaspoon salt
    I don't roll on Shabbos

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    • #3
      I don't think I've planned this very well, I don't have any lime juice (although I do have a fresh lemon) and the only fesh herbs I have are chives and rosemary.

      So you use it cold then?
      "Orinoco was a fat lazy Womble"

      Please ignore everything I say, I make it up as I go along, not only do I generally not believe what I write, I never remember it either.

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      • #4
        Oh and I have fresh basil as well. I need a talented cook, who can tell me what will go with what....... cos unfortunately all I have here is me and I'm not that much cop.
        "Orinoco was a fat lazy Womble"

        Please ignore everything I say, I make it up as I go along, not only do I generally not believe what I write, I never remember it either.

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        • #5
          Yep - use it cold. A lemon will be fine. Forget the recipe and just work with what you've got. Tomatillos, tomatoes, garlic, onion, lemon, basil, chilies. That's a salsa! Chop it up and chill - it will taste great on hot wraps. The contrast is what you're after. Try to pick up some sour cream on the way over to your in-laws too!
          I don't roll on Shabbos

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          • #6
            p.s. add some olive oil too and go for a "fine dice" - not big bits but not too small.
            I don't roll on Shabbos

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            • #7
              Thankyou so much, I've just done all that.

              If I tell you that my eyes were streaming just smelling it, you can tell how hot it is and I just tasted a tiny bit that fell on my hand.......... my god, it is hot! I knew I put too many different chillis in
              "Orinoco was a fat lazy Womble"

              Please ignore everything I say, I make it up as I go along, not only do I generally not believe what I write, I never remember it either.

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              • #8
                In general terms, if it contains tomatoes, basil will 'go'....
                Flowers come in too many colours to see the world in black-and-white.

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                • #9
                  Tomatillo

                  Hello everybody!!
                  I am having a good crop of tomatillo. Tried one raw and tastes horrible...is this normal?. Do I have to cook them in order to make them palatable? suggestion please!!
                  Regards
                  Don Vincenzo

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                  • #10
                    Green tomatillos are unripe, yellow ones are ripe. I think you need to cook them & put them with other ingredients to make them palatable: Veg Box Recipes • Tomatillo Salsa Verde Receipe

                    spot the deliberate mistake in that recipe - ripe or unripe tomatilloes?
                    Last edited by Two_Sheds; 31-08-2008, 06:40 AM.
                    All gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.

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                    • #11
                      Oh man. Hundreds of tomatillo recipes here: Tomatillo Recipes from the Household Management Recipe Collection
                      All gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.

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                      • #12
                        Hello TwoShed
                        Many thanks for your links, one thing which puzzles me is that my tomatillos are turning from green to purple and no yellow. Perhaps i will leave them alone and see what will happen.
                        regards
                        Don Vincenzo

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                        • #13
                          There are 2 types as far as I am aware, one goes green and one goes purple.

                          Thanks to Rhona btw, the salsa went down a treat, I did make it way too hot though and you couldn't really taste that much else in the salsa
                          "Orinoco was a fat lazy Womble"

                          Please ignore everything I say, I make it up as I go along, not only do I generally not believe what I write, I never remember it either.

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