Recipe: Strawberry Salsa!

Recently, I decided to buy a completely obscene amount of strawberries.  We're talking several pounds of strawberries.  So, for our neighborhood Cinco de Mayo bash, I made some strawberry salsa.  It came out really well, especially for a first attempt at salsa, plus salsa can be used in a ton of diet-friendly recipes; sweet salsas pair nicely with salmon, pork, chicken, etc.  Here are the ingredients:

1 lb strawberries, diced
1 lb tomatoes, diced - try to find an especially flavorful variety
2 jalapeno peppers (one of them seeded, one with the seeds), sliced
1 small yellow onion, diced
Fresh cilantro, finely chopped, to taste - I love a ton of cilantro, so I used a lot of it.
Salt and pepper to taste

Mix all ingredients together in a large bowl.  If you like your salsa as pictured below, then you can stop here.  This results in a very mild salsa (obviously, you can add more jalapeno and include more of the seeds to up the ante spice-wise).

However, I prefer it this way:

To do this, just stick the salsa into a blender and pulse until you get a consistency like the one in the picture.  This style keeps a lot longer, too, so we left ours in an airtight container overnight in the fridge, which made it REALLY tasty.  It went over quite well for Cinco de Mayo.  It's still pretty mild by salsa standards, but I personally prefer it that way (again, if you like it spicy, just keep on adding those jalapenos!).

Enjoy!