Tequila Salsa (not for kids!)

This boozy Tequila Salsa is not for kids! Add a bit of fire to your salsa to make your next Mexican night even more spicy! Get the recipe below.

Tex-Mex food

Tex-Mex food is high up on my list of things I couldn’t live without. Indian and Chinese food would be pretty high up there too, but Tex-Mex / Mexican is one of my favourite cuisines. When done well, every mouthful feels like a fiesta full of loud music, raucous dancing and happiness!

Salsa is one of the key components of Tex-Mex food that brings a real pop of flavour to any dish. (Some suggestions on dishes you can serve this salsa with are set out below.)

The key to a good salsa is crispy veggies, plenty of salt to draw the moisture out of those veggies, and then lime juice.

Just looking at a big bowl of this salsa you’ll see bright reds, yellow and oranges from the peppers and tomatoes green from the coriander and even purple from the onion. The flavours are both sweet and spicy.

But with this recipe, what you don’t see, is the smokey heat of tequila! You can’t think of Mexico without thinking of tequila.

Adding tequila

Tequila is distilled from roasted agave hearts. When they are roasted the starches in the plants are turned into sugars which become the distinctive alcohol. A good aged tequila sometimes called dark tequila or gold tequila has been barrel aged; often in old American whisky barrels. This gives it a characteristic smokey flavour which is perfect for the tequila.

If you can only get your hands on white or silver tequila, it’s not the end of the world but I’d hold back a splash or two or it might be too harsh.

Now the normal way in which I consume tequila is out of a tiny glass cup, with salt on my hand and a wedge of lime in the other. With that in mind there is a healthy pinch of salt in this recipe and a good squeeze or two of lime for good measure!

Remember when I said that Tex-Mex food tasted like there was a party in my mouth! With this tequila salsa the party is just getting started!

The recipe

Tequila Salsa

This boozy Tequila Salsa is not for kids! Add a bit of fire to your salsa to make your next Mexican night even more spicy!

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Prep Time 15 minutes mins

Cook Time 30 minutes mins

Total Time 45 minutes mins

Course Side Dish

Cuisine Mexican

Servings 4 people

Calories 74.78 kcal

Ingredients

 

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• 3 plum tomatoes
• 1 yellow pepper
• 1 red pepper
• 1 red chilli pepper
• 0.5 red onion
• 1 pinch salt
• 2 limes juice only
• 50 ml tequila
• 1 handful coriander

Instructions

 

• Finely dice the tomatoes, peppers, chilli and red onion.
• Spoon the diced vegetables and tomato into a bowl along with all of the juice and pips (we don’t want to waste any flavour!)
• Add the pinch of salt, lime juice and tequila and stir well.
• Leave the salsa to sit for 30 minutes for optimum flavour.
• Roughly chop the coriander and stir through the salsa immediately before serving.

Nutrition

Calories: 74.78kcalCarbohydrates: 11.33gProtein: 1.62gFat: 0.38gSaturated Fat: 0.05gSodium: 16.62mgPotassium: 331.98mgFiber: 2.82gSugar: 4.22gVitamin A: 1569.92IUVitamin C: 126.15mgCalcium: 26.47mgIron: 0.76mg

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Serve with…

This salsa would make a great addition to any Mexican feast but goes particularly well with:

• crispy cauliflower tacos
• vegan potato and chorizo tacos
• black bean tacos
• cheesey sweetcorn quesadillas
• roasted red pepper and sweet potato quesadillas
• fully loaded nacho fries
• the ultimate vegan nachos
• smokey beef barbacoa

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