How to Make Pineapple Salsa

with Gretchen Siegchrist

Transcript: How to Make Pineapple Salsa

Hi, this is Ben Kurtzman with About.com food, and today we are going to be making pineapple salsa, which is one of my favorites, because it is very versatile. You can use it to accent a nice piece of fish or chicken, or you can just eat it on its own with corn chips.

Pineapple Salsa Ingredients

First, we have half of a pineapple, we have a quarter cup of cilantro, three cloves of garlic, half of a white onion, half of a red pepper, half of a jalapeño pepper, the juice of one lemon, and salt and pepper. I have chopped the cilantro, the garlic, the onion, and the red and jalapeño peppers pretty finely. I like a nice smooth salsa. If you like it a little more chunky in texture that is okay too, just plan accordingly as you chop.

Prepare the Ingredients

I am going to begin by chopping the pineapple. Keep chopping until you get the chunks the size you want. They do not have to be exactly the same size, but you want to keep a certain consistency.

Now, I am going to take our pineapple, put it in a small mixing bowl. Now, the only thing left to do is add our remaining ingredients. Our cilantro, and I am going to use a rubber spatula here to get the remainder. Here is out garlic. Beautiful. Onion of course. And as you can see here I have included the red pepper and the jalapeno in the same bowl. Here is our lemon juice. One, and two.

Mix the Ingredients

If you can see here, it looks like I have underestimated the size of the bowl we are going to need. But that is not a big deal. We can just take a slightly larger bowl and put the contents in before we mix it. Now our pineapple is on top. This is not going to be a pineapple upside down cake. And we will mix. You really want to get everything blended nicely so that all of the ingredients are represented in a single bite. And the beautiful thing about this dish is the colors are just lovely. You get some nice yellows, some greens, some reds, very festive.

Taste and Adjust

Now what I am going to do is just take a little taste of the salsa on a corn chip. This is my favorite part. I am going to do this before we add the salt and pepper, so here we go. It is delicious.

Now I am going to add just a little bit of salt and pepper. Here is our salt. Grind some pepper in. Stir it up. Add it to our mix.

Salsa Variations

One of the great things about this recipe is that it is really adaptable. You can substitute any of the ingredients for anything that you like better. You can use different kinds of fruit, or maybe you like red onion instead of a white onion. Feel free to experiment. That is what makes this a great recipe.

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