{"id":4295,"date":"2014-04-21T00:57:32","date_gmt":"2014-04-21T00:57:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/?p=4295"},"modified":"2019-05-17T09:38:42","modified_gmt":"2019-05-17T16:38:42","slug":"tomatillo-salsa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/tomatillo-salsa\/","title":{"rendered":"Tomatillo Salsa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/tom-salsa.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9037\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright aiif9037\" src=\"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/tom-salsa.jpg\" alt=\"tom-salsa\" width=\"219\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><strong>INGREDIENTS<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1 lb tomatillos . husked and washed<\/li>\n<li>1 TBL salt<\/li>\n<li>1\/4 white onion (cut into pieces)<\/li>\n<li>2 jalape\u00f1os or serrano (halved with seeds removed)<\/li>\n<li>3 cloves of garlic (halved)<\/li>\n<li>Lots of cilantro<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 teaspoon ground cumin<\/li>\n<li>1 avocado<\/li>\n<li>Zest and juice from 2 limes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>STEP BY STEP<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Put whole tomatillos in a pot<\/li>\n<li>Cover with water plus 1 TBL salt<\/li>\n<li>Boil for 15 minutes<br \/>\nALTERNATELY you can quarter the tomatillos and brown them in a hot cast iron skillet OR bake them at 350\u00ba for about ten minutes<\/li>\n<li>Remove tomatillos<\/li>\n<li>Add onion and garlic<\/li>\n<li>Remove water so they are just barely covered<\/li>\n<li>Let onion and garlic blanche in boiling water for about 5 minutes<br \/>\nALTERNATELY if you are using a cast iron skillet, put your onion and garlic in with the tomatillos<\/li>\n<li>Whatever the method you use to cook your tomatillos, garlic and onion, continue to step 9 and proceed till the end of the recipe<\/li>\n<li>Meanwhile, put quartered tomatillos and put into a blender<\/li>\n<li>Add onion and garlic to blender<\/li>\n<li>Thin blender contents as necessary (only to blend) with onion water or chicken broth<\/li>\n<li>Add cilantro and cumin and pulse to break apart (but not to puree) cilantro<\/li>\n<li>Add squashed avocado tossed with lime juice and zest<\/li>\n<li>Mix by hand until incorporated<\/li>\n<li>Let rest for about an hour to completely meld<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Serve with chips or pork cracklings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>INGREDIENTS 1 lb tomatillos . husked and washed 1 TBL salt 1\/4 white onion (cut into pieces) 2 jalape\u00f1os or serrano (halved with seeds removed) 3 cloves of garlic (halved) Lots of cilantro 1\/2 teaspoon ground cumin 1 avocado Zest and juice from 2 limes STEP BY STEP Put whole tomatillos in a pot Cover &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/tomatillo-salsa\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tomatillo Salsa&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[180,97,171],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-appetizers","category-condiments-sauces","category-world-cuisine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4295"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18018,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4295\/revisions\/18018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}