Today, while at the grocery store, my husband and I decided we wanted to make some salsa.
Random.
We were just walking through the aisles, and decided salsa sounded good! I decided to make a fruity salsa, and a tomato based salsa! This was rather spur of the moment, so I just went with what sounded good!
I knew I had some kiwi’s at home, and got a mango to go with it. We also saw some grapes, and I thought that would go well with it!
Then, I figured tomatoes, cilantro, lime and jalapeno would make a good tomato salsa.
Showdown starts now!
Girl’s Choice:
Kiwi-Mango-Grape Salsa
Adapted from How Sweet It Is
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2 kiwi’s, peeled and chopped
1 cup seedless red grapes
1 mango, peeled, seed removed and chopped
1/4 of a large red onion, chopped
1/4 cup cilantro leaves
1 lime, juice and zest
Cut the kiwis and mango.
Mango slicer to the rescue! I love this thing!
Leave the grapes whole – just remove from the stem. Oh yeah – and make sure you use seedless grapes!
Place all ingredients in a food processor and pulse carefully.
Leave this as chunky or as smooth as you would like.
Add salt to taste.
Boy’s Choice:
Tomato and Bean Salsa
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6 roma tomatoes, diced, or about 3 cups diced tomatoes
1 jalapeno pepper, seeded and chopped
1/4 cup cilantro leaves
1/4 cup red onion, chopped
1 lime, zest and juice
1 can pinto beans, drained and rinsed (or 1 1/2 cups pinto beans)
In the food processor, add all the ingredients. Pulse to combine ingredients. Leave this as chunky or as smooth as you would like.
Add salt to taste.
Side by side!
His favorite was the tomato salsa; mine was the fruit!
Originally – on the tomato salsa – I was going to keep 1/2 the beans whole, and puree only 1/2 of them. But I think I liked it all pureed together! Since it was slightly chunky, there were some whole beans in there.
Both were really good! Of course the chips are Food Should Taste Good Sweet Potato tortilla chips – our favorite!
Question: Do you ever decide to make something while at the grocery store?
yum! the girly version sounds and looks delicious
so does the boy’s … but I am partial to mangoes 
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They sound good and I’d stand around and gobble them both up. I really like fruit salsas, have made a couple but never with mango and kiwi. Fabulous idea. Next August, when our fresh Colorado peaches are available, you’ll have to try a peach version. I made some once, blogged about it and called it Peacho de Gallo.
Oooo! That does sound good, I will have to do that!
Since all my weird diagnosis I ran across a mango salsa that I loved at Qboda. I dissected it one night it had in it cucumber, mango, red onions, red sweet peppers, cilantro, and probably some lime juice (which of course I exclude). I picked up a mango yesterday at the store and raspberries and blueberries. I was just going to make mixed fruit, but you are inspiring me
love the mango tool. I’ve wondered if they worked.
Yay! That sounds good! LOVE the mango slicer — works awesome! I think the worst part of mangos is slicing them
Yummy! I’ve never made salsa before so I will definitely try this. Thanks for the recipe, Jane.