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This home canned salsa recipe rates an “Awesome!” from friends and family alike. To make it a salsa recipe for canning, it contains a higher proportion of tomatoes than most fresh salsa recipes, plus added vinegar to lower the pH. (More on Canning Salsa Safely at the end of the post.)
The taste and texture of this salsa recipe is similar to a popular commercial brand we used to use, but canning salsa with your fresh local produce at the peak of ripeness really makes the flavors sing.
The first time I canned homemade salsa (around 13 years ago, I think), I used recipes from the Ball Blue Book (one batch of each) and some “mild” Tam jalapeno peppers. Those “mild” peppers ate through two pairs of rubber gloves and filled the house with fumes so strong that I could hardly breathe and my husband started tearing immediately as he soon as he entered the house when he came from work. The salsa was thin and watery, strong on vinegar, and not too tasty. I gave up on salsa for quite a few years – I just couldn't put myself through that again. [Read more…]
