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Weekly Spotlight: The Scoop on Salsa and So Many Ways to Create This Delicious Dip!

Salsa is a perfect summer dip! It can be on the sweeter or spicier side, making it an excellent choice for any of your summer dishes. This week, we’re focusing on how to use salsa and how to make it. Salsa itself is a pretty wide term covering a lot of different sauces, but we’re focusing on the salsas that usually use tomatoes or tomatillos, or fruit, like mango. There are a few different ways to make salsa; you can either cook it or not. Usually, traditional salsa is made using tomatoes (if you’re making red salsa) or tomatillos (if you’re making green salsa). The other ingredients for the two are pretty similar, both using cilantro, onion, garlic, jalapenos or chiles, salt, and lime juice. Some salsas add roasted corn or even roast the tomatoes for a deeper flavor.

But, there are so many different ways to create different salsas. Some salsas use fruit as a base to create a distinct flavor between the sweet fruit and the sharper taste of onion and lime juice. These types of salsas always benefit from marination so the flavors have time to combine and set. For these, dicing the fruit and other ingredients and allowing it to marinate for a few hours ends up being a wonderful addition of flavors on top of savory food.

Of course, salsa is usually used as a dip, but it can shine as a sauce. You can get creative with how you use it, even adding it into soups and salads! You can even create a dessert inspired by chips and salsa like this Dessert Chips and Strawberry Salsa by Gabrielle St. Claire!

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This week, we’re bringing delicious, fully vegan, and plant-based ways to enjoy salsa!

Using Salsas With or As an Entree

Source: Seared Sweet Potato Flautas and Avocado Salsa Verde

These are recipes that implement salsa. That way, you not only have a delicious new salsa recipe to try, but you also get a dish to go along with it. These salsa recipes aren’t just your basic salsa recipe but are creative ways to use salsa to inspire a crisp and refreshing taste to your savory dishes.

Creative Salsas to Try

Source: Oven-Roasted Salsa

If you’re looking for a salsa recipe without an entree, these are the recipes for you! Some of these salsas lean more on the traditional side using tomatoes or tomatillos, but some are something new. These use carrot tops, corn, and mangoes as a base to create a new salsa to try! Salsa has the power to add a fresh bite to your savory dish or bring savory flavors together. So, depending on what you’re looking for, these recipes have got you covered.

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Learn How to Cook Plant-Based Meals at Home

Reducing your meat intake and eating more plant-based foods is known to help with chronic inflammation, heart health, mental wellbeing, fitness goals, nutritional needs, allergies, gut health, and more! Unfortunately, dairy consumption also has been linked to many health problems, including acne, hormonal imbalance, cancer, and prostate cancer, and has many side effects.

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