Smoked Tomato and Zucchini Salsa

I did the following salsa last Monday. It is nothing exciting but shows zucchini makes a good filler for making salsa and a way to use up some if you grow your own. It gives some texture and should take on any flavors you add. It may not be as good in a fresh salsa but it worked in my cooked version. I think mine could have used some more onions at least and maybe some green peppers.

I didn’t have anything planned to cook for supper tonight; we had some leftovers to use up. I still had some tomatoes and zucchini from my neighbor that needed used. I decided I would roast them and make a small batch of Salsa.

I had seven med. tomatoes, and a zucchini to use. I picked 4 Anaheim peppers from my garden and cut an onion in half. I cut the tomatoes and zucchini in half added all to a sheet pan coated with olive oil spray. Seasoned with salt & pepper and sprayed with olive oil.

I did these for a half hour on smoke then went to 225 deg. After a total of an hour 45 minutes I checked them and went to 300 deg. for another half hour.

After they cooled I took the peels off the tomatoes & cut up some. There was plenty of water left since I did them peel side down so poured about half off. I cut up and added the zucchini, onion & peppers to this, some cilantro, two stalks of sliced celery and two chopped garlic cloves.

I chopped this all up pretty fine in my food processor. It went into a sauce pan, brought to a boil then went to simmer. I added the juice of a lime and some tomato paste. I simmered it about 20 minutes. I tasted it and decided to leave as is, a little above mild heat; a little too much cilantro for my taste. I just ate a couple of bites on my Cajun crackers, the heat builds after eating. My Anaheim peppers are hot.

Seasoned and ready to smoke

All done

More ingredients added

Simmering

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