Add Some Salsa to Your Meals: 24 Easy Ways to Add Zip to Meals
June 03, 2007 by
There is a salsa site with nearly 200 different recipes for just the salsa! There's other easily found sites with many more. For those who have more tomatoes than they can use fresh, salsa is an easy and quick way to preserve them to use later.
But using them later - and once everyone is tired of chips and salsa....what then? There's many ways to use salsa!
1. Your favorite cheesy hashbrown recipe - add salsa for some extra zing in the morning. .
2. Top eggs with salsa for a different start to the day.
3. Add to chili or soups.
4. Top or mix with meatloaf, burgers or sloppy joes.
5. Mix in with pizza sauce and make homemade pizza.
6. Add to leftover suprise casseroles and top with cheese.
7. Use on nachos.
8. Stir in with macaroni and cheese - add some left over meat and that cup of left over vegetables that isn't enough to do anything else with for a one dish meal that's cheap and tasty.
9. Top baked potatoes with it.
10. Mix in with spaghetti sauce for a different spaghetti meal.
11. Stir in a batter of corn meal for tex mex muffins.
12. Add to taco meat for nachos.
13. Mix with leftover ground meat, the broken chips it seems always is in a bag of chips - use on salads for those days it's "too hot to cook".
14. Use on hot dogs instead of relish.
15. Top grilled meats with it.
16. Add to red beans and rice.
17. Make beefy rice - add salsa and a little cheese.
18. Tired of wasting the skins on baked potatoes? Bake potatoes and dish out the potato. Put the skins over a broiler for 5 minutes, turn over one minute. Spoon salsa evenly over the skins and top with cheese. Broil just until the cheese melts.
19. Trim fat from a beef roast; cut beef into 1-1/4" pieces. Brown, stir in salsa, 2 tablespoons brown sugar, a tablespoon soy sauce, a clove of crushed garlic, - Bring to a boil, cover tightly and simmer for an hour. Remove cover and cook until beef is tender. Remove from heat, stir in chopped cilantro and a splash of lime juice. Spoon over rice.
But using them later - and once everyone is tired of chips and salsa....what then? There's many ways to use salsa!
1. Your favorite cheesy hashbrown recipe - add salsa for some extra zing in the morning. .
2. Top eggs with salsa for a different start to the day.
3. Add to chili or soups.
4. Top or mix with meatloaf, burgers or sloppy joes.
5. Mix in with pizza sauce and make homemade pizza.
6. Add to leftover suprise casseroles and top with cheese.
7. Use on nachos.
8. Stir in with macaroni and cheese - add some left over meat and that cup of left over vegetables that isn't enough to do anything else with for a one dish meal that's cheap and tasty.
9. Top baked potatoes with it.
10. Mix in with spaghetti sauce for a different spaghetti meal.
11. Stir in a batter of corn meal for tex mex muffins.
12. Add to taco meat for nachos.
13. Mix with leftover ground meat, the broken chips it seems always is in a bag of chips - use on salads for those days it's "too hot to cook".
14. Use on hot dogs instead of relish.
15. Top grilled meats with it.
16. Add to red beans and rice.
17. Make beefy rice - add salsa and a little cheese.
18. Tired of wasting the skins on baked potatoes? Bake potatoes and dish out the potato. Put the skins over a broiler for 5 minutes, turn over one minute. Spoon salsa evenly over the skins and top with cheese. Broil just until the cheese melts.
19. Trim fat from a beef roast; cut beef into 1-1/4" pieces. Brown, stir in salsa, 2 tablespoons brown sugar, a tablespoon soy sauce, a clove of crushed garlic, - Bring to a boil, cover tightly and simmer for an hour. Remove cover and cook until beef is tender. Remove from heat, stir in chopped cilantro and a splash of lime juice. Spoon over rice.
Feed 3 people, for 1 week, for only $10 per person. This really can be done if you shop at discount stores. You can prepare great tasting meals at half the cost from ingredients bought at dollar stores and discount supermarkets.
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