This Tomatillo Salsa Verde is the perfect green sauce to serve on your table for a variety of dishes and it’s also perfect to make enchiladas & chilaquiles verdes. A true versatile salsa!
Tomatillo salsa, one of the greatest taco toppings, is a cinch to make! The tomatillos are stripped of their papery skin, which can get sticky at times. To avoid sticky fingers when you’re peeling & cutting them, just wet your fingers a little bit and that should do the trick 😉
How to Make Tomatillo Salsa Verde
The preparation could not be easier than this!!!
To bring all of the flavors from the onions, garlic & peppers, we sauté them first until lightly browned.
We then cook the tomatillos in chicken stock for a few minutes until soft.
Once the tomatillos are cooled slightly, we add all ingredients to a blender or food processor and puree until you reach the desired consistency.
Tomatillo Sauce
This sauce is perfect for enchiladas, chilaquiles, beef, etc. It also works great as a green tomatillo salsa to serve on your table. To make it spicy, just add a another jalapeño or a serrano pepper.
- Prep Time: 10 mins
- Cook Time: 15 mins
- Total Time: 25 mins
- Yield: About 3 cups 1x
- Category: Appetizers
- Method: Stove
- Cuisine: Mexican
Ingredients
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1/2 cup chopped onion
- 3 garlic cloves, peeled and roughly chopped
- 1 poblano chile, roughly chopped
- 1 jalapeño, chopped
- 4 cups tomatillos, husked, rinsed and chopped
- 2 cups chicken stock
- 1/2 cup chopped cilantro
Instructions
- Add 1 tablespoon olive oil to a saucepan and heat over medium high heat. Add the 1/2 cup onion, 3 garlic cloves, 1 poblano, and 1 jalapeño and sauté until lightly browned.
- Add the 4 cups of tomatillos and chicken stock
- Simmer until soft. About 10 minutes
- Remove from heat and let it cool slightly.
- Add the tomatillo mix and cilantro in a blender and puree. Note: do not add all of the liquid from the tomatillo mix as it may make the sauce to runny. If you see it too dry then add more of the liquid as you puree it. It should have the consistency of cooked salsa.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1/2 cup
- Calories: 84
- Sugar: 5 g
- Sodium: 4 mg
- Fat: 6 g
- Saturated Fat: 0
- Unsaturated Fat: 0
- Trans Fat: 0
- Carbohydrates: 9 g
- Fiber: 3 g
- Protein: 4 g
- Cholesterol: 0 mg
Keywords: Salsa Verde, Salsa Verde Recipe, Tomatillo Salsa, Tomatillo Salsa Verde, Tomatillo Sauce
Use this Tomatillo Salsa Verde to make these Green Chicken Chilaquiles or this Green Enchiladas.
I’m also very excited to mention that I have the privilege to be part of the BlogHer network now. This a wonderful network for women bloggers and for women readers.
To visit my page just click on the link on the right sidebar of this blog. If you’re a food blogger you know it can be difficult to be accepted! I’m not ashamed to say that I applied last year and was not approved. So I made some improvements to my blog and decided to try again this year. Boom! Got accepted!
This goes to show you that hard work always pays off. 🙂
Truly delicious! Thanks for sharing!
★★★★★
Thank you Monica! I appreciate you stopping by!
I’m going to be facing a glut of tomatillos from the garden… any gut feeling of what this sauce would be like afterward, if I froze it in batches? It’s a half-cooked sauce, half fresh sauce, which is why I’m going, hmmmm….
Hi Randal, Thanks for sending me the email with your question! Did you get my reply?
Beautiful photos!! This looks amazing! I had actually been thinking of trying to recreate a restaurant dish that uses a tomatillo sauce, this looks like a great version to try!
That’s perfect Annie! I’m making chilaquiles today with it 🙂 Thanks so much and I hope you have a great week!
Love tomatillos! I just started using them more recently and can’t get enough!
And congrats on BlogHer! Way to got girl! XOXO
Hi Rebecca!! I need to find different ways to incorporate tomatillos. I love them too!! Thanks for your congrats! Much appreciated!
Hi Ana! Congratulations on getting excepted to BlogHer network. Your photos are AMAZING and your delicious recipes are on my to-do-list. You are actually what inspired me to get my butt in gear and apply as well. (Fingers crossed!). I am part of foodbloggerpro and saw one of your posts on Media Nexus. They also contacted me but I haven’t responded yet. Are you using them as well? Thanks again for the inspiration and I look forward to following your wonderful work. Cheers from Italy! Cindy
Oops! I meant to say “accepted” 🙂
Thanks so much Cindy! I appreciate you stopping by and your nice comment. Your blog is fantastic and I do hope you get accepted! Nexus has been great!! So easy to work with I definitely give them a thumbs up. Good luck with blogher!!
Fantastic, I will definitely try out Nexus. Thanks for your kind comment about my blog and well wishes for blogher! Tonight we are having a bbq and I am going to make salmon tacos with your Pineapple Salsa (with unfortunately a few adaptations since cilantro is practically impossible to find her in Italy 🙁 ) Do you have a recipe for homemade corn tortillas? I did a search on your blog but didn’t see one.My Italian friends are going to love your salsa. Thanks again, Ana! Cheers!
Hi Cindy! Sorry for the late reply…I’m sure you already made the corn tortillas! 🙁 I normally just do the “masa” and water but I’m not sure how it’s sold in Italy? I will try to get you a good recipe for next time you need to try them. It’s a great idea to have on the blog! Thanks! I hope the tacos came out great! Too bad on the cilantro… it’s easy to grow like Parsley and Basil so perhaps you could grow some? I can’t live without it!
I hope you have a great week! xoxo
No worries! I couldn’t find masa so I ended up making some really yummy kamut tortillas and cooked them on the BBQ. Your salsa was delicious and was a big hit with my Italian friends. Great idea about growing cilantro!! I will look for seeds today. Have a great week! Cheers!