Fresh Tomato Salsa

Name: Fresh Tomato Salsa
Prep time: 9 min
Total time: 9 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Mexican
Ingredients: 3 large ripe tomatoes, diced small; 1 small red onion, peeled and diced small; 1/2 cup chopped cilantro; 1-2 jalapeño peppers, minced; for less heat, remove the seeds; 2 cloves garlic, minced; 3 Tbsp fresh lime juice; Sea salt to taste

Diced ripe tomatoes, red onion, cilantro, jalapeño, garlic, and lime tossed together. The classic pico de gallo, no measuring required.

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Prep: 9 min Cook: 0 min Servings: 4

Ingredients

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3 large ripe tomatoes , diced small
1 small red onion , peeled and diced small
½ cup chopped cilantro
1-2 jalapeño peppers , minced; for less heat, remove the seeds
2 cloves garlic , minced
3 Tbsp fresh lime juice
Sea salt to taste

Method

Dice the tomatoes and red onion.
Chop the cilantro and jalapeños.
Mince the garlic.
Combine in a large bowl with lime juice.
Salt to taste.
Refrigerate until ready to serve.

Nutrition per serving (estimated)

36 cal
1.3g protein
0.3g fat
8.2g carbs
2.2g fiber
2.8g sugar
6mg sodium

About the ingredients

large ripe tomatoes Solanum lycopersicum: Whole fruit of the tomato plant (botanically a berry, culinary vegetable). 'Organic' denotes a farming method, not a distinct ingredient. Raw whole fruit, rich in lycopene, vitamin C, potassium. WFPB-canonical.
small red onion Allium cepa: Purple-red cultivar of common onion; bulb eaten raw or cooked. Minimally processed. Anthocyanins, quercetin, organosulfur compounds, vitamin C. Whole-plant bulb — canonical WFPB.
chopped cilantro Coriandrum sativum: Fresh leaves of coriander (Coriandrum sativum, Apiaceae), known as cilantro; a culinary herb used fresh. Whole leaf, no processing. Low calorie, provides vitamin K, A, C and antioxidants. WFPB-canonical whole herb.
garlic Allium sativum: Garlic itself is canonical, but extract denotes a concentrated/isolated derivative outside the whole-food canon. Marketed as natural/healthy supplement, hence mistaken-as-WFPB flag.
fresh lime juice Citrus aurantiifolia: Distinct from fresh lime juice (canonical). Concentration is an industrial vacuum-evaporation step removing fiber and concentrating sugars/acids.
Sea salt NaCl: Crystalline sodium chloride, harvested by evaporating seawater or mining rock-salt deposits. Used as seasoning and preservative since antiquity—central to trade and food economies for millennia. A mineral, not a plant food, and a sodium isolate; noncanonical to WFPB.