Recipe with pictures of ingredients and final product at: http://sleevers.wordpress.com/2013/10/27/easy-smoked-tomatillo-salsa/

It’s been three months since our surgery. We’re slowly adding back in vegetables, which we have sorely missed. Here’s a fairly mild salsa, since I know many sleevers can’t tolerate that much spice right away, but a little tang and tart and zip just livens up your food.

You could serve this with roast meats, or put on your refried beans or taco pie.

Ingredients

• 4 small green tomatillos quartered (green tomatoes with husks on them)
  
• 4 cloves garlic peeled
  
• i jalapeno pepper, seeded, membranes removed, cut in half
  
• 1 tbsp chopped cilantro
  
• 2 tbs chopped onions
  
• Salt to taste
  

Method

• Turn oven to broil and place the oven rack six inches away from the broiler.
  
• Cover a small baking sheet with foil. Place tomatillos, garlic and seeded pepper on the foil
  
• Broil for 10-15 minutes until the garlic is well charred and the tomatillos and peppers have brown blisters on them
  
• Put into bowl of food processor and process until smooth. Alternatively, smash smooth with a mortar and pestle.
  
• Add salt to taste.
  
• Just before serving, add onions and cilantro and mix well
  

Sounds so good Gamergirl, I love mexican flavors!

I lurve tomatillos, but have gotten out of salsa making since surgery. Your recipe looks well worth getting back into at least one pre-surgery habit! :-)

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Good! I'm getting back into eating veggies again. It does mean I have to drink 2 shakes a day to make my protein, but I don't care. I miss veggies!

Was just thinking today of how much I miss veggies and salads.

Was just thinking today of how much I miss veggies and salads.

How much longer before you can have some? I'm almost at 3 months and just last week, I started adding a few veggies to each meal. Haven't dared raw lettuce yet. But have done fine with a little raw cucumber and raw jicama. All else has been cooked.