Holiday Rush

☰ Menu
Recipe Tags: Time To Make Course Main Ingredient Cuisine Preparation Occasion For Large Groups Sauces Canning Condiments Etc Vegetables Brazilian Salsas South American Gifts Tomatoes Number Of Servings Technique Water Bath 4 Hours Or Less

Six Pepper Salsa

I don't know if this salsa recipe is typical of brazilian salsas, but i do know this recipe is special. It was my neighbor nina from brazil who taught me to make salsa and to can it. It was my first venture into canning. Now we bottle whatever is abundant almost every year, but we never miss canning this salsa. There was a period of several years when we suffered without this amazing recipe. All i can figure is that the carefully copied ingredients must have been thrown out with the remains of the chopped vegetables one fall, because the next year the recipe card was gone. Oh the mental anguish of not knowing if we could ever duplicate our beloved salsa! Oh, the hunger! i began searching for a recipe with the unique combination of six different hot peppers that our recipe had. No luck. I even located our long-lost friend nina and gave her a call. Sadly, she didn't recall the recipe or me. No matter. I will always be grateful for her friendship and her salsa. I began trying to recreate

Steps

Combine everything in a large pot and bring to a boil.
Reduce heat and simmer for 10 minutes.
Ladle hot salsa into hot jars leaving 1 / 4 inch headspace.
Wipe jar rim with clean cloth and top with heated two-piece caps.
Process for 15 minutes in a boiling-water canner.

Ingredients

tomatoes, onions, poblano peppers, serrano peppers, jalapeno peppers, banana peppers, anaheim chilies, chili peppers, garlic cloves, cumin, pepper, canning salt, sugar, apple cider vinegar, cilantro