Easy-Peasy Pico De Gallo Recipe!

This is my favorite recipe for a quick healthy satisfying snack for all ages and any time of the year. It's great with a few beers on a Saturday for college football, hoops or even tennis if that is your bag. (Not recommended for watching field hockey, if you do watch field hockey and eat this, please do not tell me.)

Ingredients:

4-6 Fresh, ripe tomatoes

1 Med to large white onion (you can use whatever type you like)

1 Bunch of fresh cilantro (1 cup chopped) BTW, I think the non-organic has a better flavor actually, and much less sand.

1 seeded, jalapeño, minced (I use the pickled store brand since I do this so often, and rarely have a fresh one but when I do have a fresh one, it rocks even more.)

2 very ripe limes.

Salt & Pepper to taste.

Begin by dicing all of your tomatoes. I dice them up as finely as their ripeness allows. Add them to a large mixing bowl.

Next finely chop your onion. Add it to the mixture. Then do the same with your jalapeño:

Chop up your bunch of cilantro, I usually leave as much of the stems out as I can. Now cut your two limes in half and squeeze as much juice from them into the mixture as possible.

Add salt to taste, I like to put a light dash of fresh ground pepper in as well (you know how fresh ground pepper and tomato go so nicely.)

Now stir your ingredients together until uniformly awesome!

Now if you want to blow it all out in the most amazing way ever possible do this: Cut three soft and ripe Avocados. Seed and get as much flesh out of the skins as you can. Put the Avocado in a new bowl. Now this is the really hard part; scoop a cup (or more depending on how large your avocados were) of your fresh Pico and add it to the Avocado halves in the new bowl. Take two knives and cut/stir the mixture together until at a smooth texture, or chunky texture to your liking.

Enjoy with an ice cold beer and the chip of your choice (I love the Snyder's white rounds or yellow tortilla's mainly because they add lots of salt!)

Serve in a fancy bowl (not pictured) and have a great time. Enjoy!

Larry

South West Style Variation: I was driving to get the van serviced and thought it might be great to add a cup or so of drained black beans and a cup or so of canned white corn, then sprinkle a bit of cumin or chili powder or chipotle powder to taste! Stir it up and serve chilled! Wow!! I'm going to try this this weekend.