Canning Garden Salsa

Put everything into a large stockpan and simmer for at least 30 minutes until it thickens.

Banana bread muffins using 2 bananas. Sterilize the jars and lids in boiling water for at least 5 minutes. The perfect pinches of cumin and cayenne layered with herbal cilantro and just the right ratio of vinegar and sugar helps this salsa hit the trifecta of tangy spicy and smoky. Once the tomatoes in the garden begin to ripen we often get email requests for our classic canned salsa recipe.

Canning salsa at home. The recipe calls for two cups of lemon juice. This recipes uses tomatoes fresh from the garden.

This time we adjusted the salsa recipe and ended up with 20 pints of salsa. Our thoughts on canning salsa. Homemade salsa for canning if your garden has blessed you with a surplus of tomatoes this summer youve found the right recipe.

Place flat lid and screw band on jar and finger tighten. Pack salsa into hot sterilized jars filling to within 14 inch of the top. The salsa canning process.

Using a ladle and funnel add the fiesta garden salsa into a hot jar keeping a 12 in head space. If you fail to properly balance the acid levels in your salsa you create a breeding ground for food borne bacteria that can make you seriously ill according to karen blakeslee a food scientist with kansas state university. Homemade salsa for canning with cilantro and jalapeno is a large batch salsa recipe.

While it does not compare to fresh out of the garden shopped salsa no canned or purchased salsa could. Making and canning salsa is definitely not hard but there are a few things to keep in mind. Simply adjust the salsa recipe for the quantity of tomatoes you have.

Pour into your prepared jars. Here are our thoughts on this salsa recipe. I highly recommend grabbing a few spoonfuls and enjoying with chips while it cooks.

Head space is the distance from the top of the jar to the food filling the jar wipe the rim of each jar with a damp cloth ensuring that the rims are clean. 1 use a tested recipe. Canning salsa is a tricky task because you are combining highly acidic tomatoes with peppers onions and other low acid foods.

Canning is a great and fun yes im a nerd way to preserve food and keep it on your shelves but there are many food safety concerns related to canning and its important to use a recipe thats been tested to ensure the. This easy to make salsa is made with fresh tomatoes jalapenos and cilantro from your garden harvest and canned in pint jars to enjoy year round. I use an assortment of tomatoes both red and yellow.