Simple Smoked Salsa Food

SIMPLE SMOKED SALSA

Steps:

• Preheat the smoker to 225 degrees F (110 degrees C). Add wood chips according to manufacturer's directions.
• Place tomatoes, onion, jalapeno pepper, and garlic inside a disposable foil pan and place on the smoker rack. Smoke vegetables for 90 minutes.
• Transfer vegetables into the bowl of a food processor or blender. Add cilantro, lime juice, and salt. Pulse several times until vegetables are finely chopped; do not over-process. Serve at room temperature or refrigerate to let flavors meld.

SMOKED SALSA

Steps:

• Preheat a smoker grill to 250 degrees F (120 degrees C). Add wood chips according to manufacturer's directions.
• Combine tomatoes, onions, bell peppers, and jalapeno peppers in an aluminum grill pan. Place on the grate of the preheated smoker grill; smoke for 3 hours.
• Remove vegetables from the smoker and place in a blender. Blend to desired consistency. Mix in lime juice, garlic powder, salt, and pepper. Add fresh cilantro for decoration.

SMOKED MUSHROOM SALSA

Steps:

• Put soaked wood chips in the bottom of a smoker and set up the grill. Begin to heat.
• In a large bowl, toss the mushrooms with a little olive oil, and season with salt and pepper. When the smoker is hot, add the mushrooms and cover. Smoke the mushrooms for 20 minutes, until the mushrooms have softened. When cooked through, dice the mushrooms, and place into a bowl. Add the remaining ingredients, and toss to combine. Adjust the seasonings if necessary.
• Serving suggestions: on a tostada sprinkled with cotija cheese or grilled with beef on skewers.

SMOKED TOMATO SALSA

Steps:

• For the smoked tomatoes: Preheat a smoker for cooking at 225 degrees F. Place tomatoes in a pan in the smoker and let smoke, 2 hours.
• For the salsa: Add the smoked tomatoes, chipotles, salt, pepper, roasted garlic, cilantro, jalapenos, lime juice and 1 cup water to a food processor. Pulse until ingredients are combined and salsa is chunky.

SPIKED SMOKED SALSA--

Steps:

• Pulse tomatoes in the food processor to fine pieces, place in a heavy large pot, heating over a high flame bringing to a boil.
• Meanwhile pulse in the food processor the onions and then peppers, placing both in pot. With food processor running add garlic, lime zest and meat, chili's, and herbs. If you need add a touch of lemon juices to get a fine mince.
• Add remaining ingredients except for tequila and continue boiling for 30 minutes, stirring occasionally. Add tequila and cook 5 minutes.
• Ladle hot salsa into hot pint jars, leaving ½-inch head space. Wipe jar rims. Cap with properly pretreated lids. .
• Process in a boiling water canner: 15 minutes at 0-1,000 feet altitude; 20 minutes at 1,001-6,000 feet, 25 minutes above 6,000 feet.
• Cool jars in draft free spot.
• Check lids for sealing. label and store.
• Party Time!
• Serve with corn chips and icy cold margaritas!

SMOKED TOMATO SALSA

Steps:

• Make an aluminum foil "basket" to hold the food and fit in your smoker. You should have clearance on all four sides and the top.
• Place the tomatoes, garlic, jalepenos, and onion into the foil basket. If you like hotter salsa, leave the seeds in the jalepenos. Otherwise, take them out.
• Load your smoker with 2 to 4 tablespoons of wood chips. I use apple, but that's me.
• Assemble your smoker according to factory directions. The foil basket goes on top of the wire rack.
• Start the smoker on high, close up and turn to medium low. Same as always for the Cameron smoker.
• Cook for about 45 minutes. The tomatoes should soften, but not be mushy. It takes somewhere between 30 and 45 minutes to do this.
• Turn the smoker off and leave it closed. Allow to cool for at least 15 minutes.
• Pour the liquid that accumulated in the foil basket into a small work bowl. Reserve for later. (Don't throw it out, the flavor is too good to toss.).
• Remove the garlic. If you didn't peel it, squeeze the garlic paste out of the peel. Mash.
• Reserve 1 tomato, all the chiles, and 1/4 cup onion. The chile flavor has infused into the tomatoes, so proceed with caution.
• Process the garlic, most of tomatoes and SOME of the onion until it reaches the desired texture (use food processor, batches in the blender, or immersion blender depending on what you have). If the mixture seems stiff, use some of the reserved cooking liquid to thin it down.
• TASTE. Add the smoked chiles in small batches to reach the desired heat level.
• TASTE. Add cilantro, lime juice and salt to taste. This is personal, and it will vary from batch to batch depending on how ripe the veggies were.
• Take the reserved vegetables and chop them finely. Add them to the processed salsa. This gives you 2 textures. If you want only one, then blend away.
• Add additional fresh chopped jalepeno and chopped green onions to taste. Or, leave them out.
• If the salsa turned out too hot, add about 1/2 tsp sugar. This will make it less hot tasting.
• Serve hot or cold with crispy tortilla chips and a cooling beverage.