{"id":39738,"date":"2019-11-04T13:54:29","date_gmt":"2019-11-04T19:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/?p=39738"},"modified":"2019-11-04T13:54:29","modified_gmt":"2019-11-04T19:54:29","slug":"making-my-first-salsa-molcajeteada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/making-my-first-salsa-molcajeteada\/","title":{"rendered":"Making My First Salsa Molcajeteada"},"content":{"rendered":"

After a lot of hard and probably excessive work on my part to cure my molcajete, today was finally the day to try to make a salsa in it. I opted for salsa verde because it’s my favourite and the ingredients are inexpensive enough that if my curing failed and the salsa turned out gritty, then it wouldn’t be a huge waste.<\/p>\n

First up was to roast the veggies I was going to use. I don’t know if I ever mentioned this, but I had the propane tank regulator changed a few months ago and it completely changed my life. My range went from barely adequate to incredible as it now gets up to proper temperature! So I can use the comal that came with the range to generate the Maillard reaction in a range of delectable things. You can see here tomatillos, a Serrano pepper (the smaller one), a jalape\u00f1o (top right), and half of a white onion.<\/p>\n

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Once everything was beautifully charred and softened, I transferred the tomatillos to the molcajete, but I did some additional prep on the chiles and onion to make them easier to salsify, cutting them into chunks. I also still have some tastebuds left, so I removed the seeds and white pith from the chiles, knowing that I was going to get plenty of heat just from the tasty flesh. You can see some cilantro peeking through, and there’s also garlic at the bottom. I added salt, the juice of half of a large lime, and a little water. I was just going off various salsas I’d seen made and ingredients on the bottle of my favourite brand (Herdez), not following any particular recipe.<\/p>\n

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I started to grind. It was work!<\/p>\n

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The sauce started to liquify. I wanted it a little chunky, so this was about perfect. I ground maybe a minute more, but you could still pick out all the ingredients.<\/p>\n

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Taste test was astounding — no grit and no seasoning adjustment needed! But it was hot<\/em> — just at my limit of tolerance for food coming out of my own kitchen!<\/p>\n

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After I devoured some of the sauce with a packet of Salma crackers (they taste almost exactly like corn chips, but are healthy!), I shredded a pork chop onto my hot comal and added some Chihuahua cheese until both were browned and caramelised. A wheat tortilla heated up on the other side. I piled my hot pork and cheese onto the tortilla, added a generous portion of my salsa verde, and topped the whole lot with a dollop of sour cream. Delicious!<\/p>\n

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After a lot of hard and probably excessive work on my part to cure my molcajete, today was finally the day to try to make a salsa in it. I opted for salsa verde because it’s my favourite and the ingredients are inexpensive enough that if my curing failed and the salsa turned out gritty, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[895],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-merida"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39738"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39746,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39738\/revisions\/39746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}