Pico de Gallo Recipe | Tasty Pico de Gallo Salsa
Freshness is the word that springs to mind when you taste this tomato, onion, cilantro, lime, and jalapeño dish. This colorful recipe goes perfectly with pretty much any Mexican food.
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Total Time: 15 minutes
- Yield: 4 1x
- Category: Side Dish
- Cuisine: Mexican
Ingredients
Scale
- 1 white onion, finely chopped
- 4 ripe plum tomatoes, seeded and finely chopped
- 2 or 3 jalapeño peppers, seeded and finely chopped
- ½ cup chopped fresh cilantro (fresh coriander) leaves
- 1 tablespoon fresh lime juice
- Salt to taste
Instructions
- Combine all the ingredients in a bowl.
- Cover and refrigerate for an hour before serving.
Notes
- This appetizing and colorful Mexican food recipe looks really good in the picture and you can see how the colors and textures go together.
- Use good quality onions, ripe tomatoes, and this pico de gallo will have a perfect flavor. This pico de gallo is similar to the dip you sometimes get with poppadoms in Indian restaurants, although that would not have the lime juice or cilantro in it, which are so typically Mexican.
- Pico de gallo is very popular in Mexico because it goes with so many dishes and because it is so quick and easy to put together.
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