Avocado Salsa Verde
Creamy Avocado Salsa Verde is a delicious salsa verde-guacamole hybrid made with tomatillos, avocados, and jalapeño peppers. Serve this green salsa with chips and cut veggies as a snack or top your taco with it.This recipe makes about 2 cups of salsa. A serving size is 2 tablespoons.
Ingredients
- 10 tomatillos skins removed, rinsed and cut into quarters
- 2 jalapeno peppers cut in half, seeds and membranes removed
- 4 cloves garlic
- ½ yellow onion cut into wedges (about ½ cup)
- ½ cup loosely packed cilantro or parsley
- ½ teaspoon sea salt
- 2 tablespoon lime juice
- 1 tomato diced
- 2 avocados chopped
Instructions
- Heat oven to 400°F and line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
- Roast tomatillos, jalapenos, garlic cloves, and onion for about 15 minutes, turning everything over at the halfway point.
- In a food processor, mix tomatillos, jalapenos, garlic, onion, tomato, parsley or cilantro, lime juice, and sea salt until it's a chunky salsa. If you prefer a smoother salsa, you can process the mixture until it reaches your desired texture.
- Add the avocados and pulse so that they’re mixed in, but still a little chunky.
- Serve with tortilla chips or cut veggies. Enjoy!