Grilled Tomatillo Salsa Recipes

GRILLED TOMATILLO SALSA

Steps:

• Heat an outdoor or stove-top grill. Keeping them in their husks, brush the tomatillos, the jalapeno, and onion halves lightly with the olive oil. Grill the vegetables until soft, about 15 minutes.
• Remove the husks from the tomatillos. Place grilled vegetables into the bowl of a food processor. Add the lime juice, salt, sugar, cumin, and cilantro. Pulse the mixture until salsa is formed, about 8 pulses. Serve with warm tortilla chips.

GRILLED SWORDFISH TACOS WITH TOMATILLO-MANGO SALSA

Steps:

• Preheat grill for medium heat and lightly oil the grate.
• Place mango pieces in a bowl. Scoop out 1/4 of the pieces and place in a blender with the juice of 2 limes and orange juice. Blend until smooth.
• Place tomatillos, red onion, jalapeno pepper, and cilantro in the bowl with the diced mangoes. Sprinkle salsa with salt and freshly ground pepper.
• Pour the pureed mango mixture over the salsa and mix well.
• Lay swordfish on a plate and sprinkle with the remaining lime juice, olive oil, salt and black pepper.
• Place swordfish on the hot grill and cook until fish flakes easily with a fork, about 4 minutes per side. Spoon salsa over fish.

TOMATILLO SALSA VERDE

Steps:

• Place tomatillos, onion, garlic, and chile pepper into a saucepan. Season with cilantro, oregano, cumin, and salt; pour in water. Bring to a boil over high heat, then reduce heat to medium-low, and simmer until the tomatillos are soft, 10 to 15 minutes.
• Using a blender, carefully puree the tomatillos and water in batches until smooth.

TOMATILLO SALSA

Steps:

• Set up your grill for even medium-high heat. If using a charcoal grill, distribute the coals evenly. If using a gas grill, heat both sides evenly.
• Place the whole tomatillos, scallions and jalapenos on a cooling rack in a single layer. Drizzle with olive oil and sprinkle with salt. Place the cooling rack on the grill and cook, pulling the cooling rack off the grill to flip the vegetables, until softened and charred on both sides, about 5 minutes per side. Using a knife, scrape off the skin from the jalapenos. If you want the salsa to be spicy, leave in the seeds. If you do not, remove the seeds and ribs from the jalapenos.
• To a blender or a food processor, add the tomatillos, scallions, jalapenos, cilantro, cumin, garlic, lime juice and olive oil. Blend until a salsa forms. Blend as much as you need to reach the consistency of the salsa you like. Add salt to taste. The sauce will keep in the refrigerator for up to 1 week.