Quick & Easy Salsa Recipe

Use our easy salsa recipe to impress all your friends and family with salsa you made yourself.

You might think that canning homemade salsa is a difficult and daunting task, but with help from Blain’s Farm & Fleet, you can easily make delicious salsa, perfect for canning. Our salsa recipe uses salsa mix, vinegar, and tomatoes. That’s it!

Salsa Recipe Instructions

1. Thoroughly wash all tomatoes.

2. Bring a stock pot of water to a boil. Blanch the tomatoes for 3 minutes in boiling water.

3. After 3 minutes, dip tomatoes into cold water, cut out cores, and remove skins. Chop the tomatoes coarsely.

4. If fresh tomatoes are not available, use home-canned or commercially canned tomatoes. If you use canned tomatoes, drain any liquid. You will need 5 pints of tomatoes chopped into coarse pieces.

5. Measure 5 pints of chopped tomatoes into a 5 quart saucepan, and add your chosen flavor of salsa mix and 1/2 C. of vinegar.

6. Bring mixture to a boil, stirring occasionally. Reduce heat and simmer for 10 minutes with occasional stirring.

7. The salsa is now ready to serve as is, or to be canned to save for enjoying later. If canning, continue with steps 8 through 11.

8. Pour the salsa into pint canning jars using the canning funnel. Remove any air bubbles with a bubble remover or lid lifter, and adjust the lids.

9. Process immediately using the water bath canning method in a covered water bath canner with a rack. Using the jar lifter, place filled jars onto rack immediately after each jar is filled. After all filled jars are placed on the rack, carefully lower it into the water. The water level must cover the jars and lids by 1 to 2 inches. Add more boiling water if necessary. Process for 10 minutes.

10. After you’re done processing, turn off the heat and remove the canner lid. Using the jar lifter, remove the jars from the canner and set them on a towel to cool, leaving 1 to 2 inches of space between the jars. Don’t invert the jars, cover them with a cloth, or try to cool them quickly.

11. Wait 24 hours for jars to seal.

Now you have delicious salsa that is preserved to be enjoyed all year round! Be sure to try all the different flavors of salsa mixes until you find the blend that fits your taste buds! If you want more canning recipes, be sure to check out Blain’s Farm & Fleet’s canning blog.