Easy Pico De Gallo Recipe with Simple Fresh Ingredients

Simple, fresh, homemade Pico De Gallo Recipe, made with fresh tomatoes, cilantro, and red onions is a perfect tomato salsa that you can make at home. With only four main ingredients and some herbs and spices, it doesn’t take much to enjoy delicious flavors. Warning: Double this pico de gallo batch because aside from an appetizing dip, salsa fresco is also perfect to serve on flautas, tortillas, tacos, enchiladas and fish tacos. 

Homemade Pico De Gallo

This easy pico de gallo salsa is a perfect homemade way to bring restaurant quality food right into your kitchen with minor prep. In under 10 minutes, you can be munching away to an empty bowl. And with fresh tomatoes, diced onions and a great blend of seasonings, your taste buds will thank you learning how to make pico de gallo as well. 

There are a lot of ways, with varying spices and levels of “heat” to enjoy salsas and Mexican foods in general. This recipe is SIMPLE. When you want to just get down the nitty gritty of a simple authentic pico, this is it. Most of these ingredients are likely to be in your home.

What is Pico De Gallo?

Homemade Pico De Gallo a totally fresh and totally tasty way to get your vegetables and pretend what you are eating is healthy as you down all those tortilla chips….ok, all jokes aside, its a salsa fresca! Who doesn’t love munching down on tomatoes and onions all day and these fresh vegetable ingredients make it easy to push the guilt aside. Pico is also fantastic served right on on tacos and enchiladas and comes with all the flavorings built right in, so do not be afraid to make this just as a topping for burrito pie, sour cream chicken enchiladas or even on a beef tortilla casserole recipe over just a chip and delicious dip.

Tip: Use a lime squeezer to get the most out of your fresh lime with no juice wasted! If you do not have fresh limes or prefer to use lime juice out of a container (I also keep it in my fridge), juice of a half of a lime is equivalent to about 1 tablespoon. Because lime tends to be a strong flavor, its ok to add half of that and taste test prior to adding more. 

How to make Simple Pico De Gallo

• This simple and easy recipe makes 3 cups of chunky pico dip 
• Mix fresh tomatoes, chopped onions, spicy jalapeno and fresh cilantro together in a mixing bowl.
• Add juice of lime and season well with salt and pepper.
• Mix all together so the juices marinate. 
• Refrigerate covered for at least 4 hours or overnight to let flavors mingle and really pop on your taste buds.
• Stir your pico de gallo dip well before serving to an excited crowd.

Red Onion or White Onion in Pico? 

Truly onion type is a preference and I do love both. White onions tend to be sharper, have a bolder smell and taste and red onions, totally delicious raw, tend to be slightly sweeter. Because this is a chunky fresh pico over a fine pico, I find that the red onions taste better chunky and allow you to enjoy all the flavors while white is better when you are creating a fine salsa. 

Salsas Need time To Marinate

You can most definitely serve this one immediately but salsas, picos, pretty much all dips, taste better cold. Plus when the flavors of pico have time to marinate together and sit, they become more of a medley of flavors versus individual ones. While you can eat this dip immediately, consider making a few hours ahead of time and serving up after a good mix. 

Chunky or Fine Cuts of Tomatoes

This really is a personal preference of tomato salsas – I love the bold bursting flavors of keeping tomatoes, peppers and onions diced so you get a really thick flavor, but cutting down to tiny bits is also very popular and common. Oddly, the cut does make a difference in flavor so you can test out both and see how you prefer to dice and dip. 

Serve Pico De Gallo 

There is a reason pico is so popular in places like Chipotle and Moes- it can be served on top of just about anything. For a real treat, add this fresh dip to

• Guacamole
• Shrimp tacos
• Grilled chicken

Easy Homemade Dips

Looking for more homemade dip recipes? 

• EASY COWBOY CAVIAR
• HOMEMADE QUESO DIP WITH ROTEL TOMATOES
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• CHILI CREAM CHEESE DIP RECIPE
• CRACK CORN DIP RECIPE

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Yield: 3 cups

Simple Pico De Gallo Recipe with Jalapeno

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Easy Pico De Gallo recipe with chunky cuts of tomato, red onions, jalapenos and fresh cilantro. This salsa fresco is a party favorite and with only fresh ingredients, prep is a breeze. Tomato salsa is authentically served with tortilla chips but goes so well with all your favorite Mexican Dishes.

Prep Time 10 minutes

Total Time 10 minutes

Ingredients

• 2 cups chopped fresh tomatoes
• 1/2 cup red onion, diced
• 1 jalapeno, seeds removed and diced
• 1/2 cup chopped cilantro
• juice of 1/2 lime
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 teaspoon pepper

Instructions

1. Mix diced tomatoes, diced red onions, diced green jalapeno and chopped fresh cilantro together in a mixing bowl. 
2. Add juice of lime and season pico with salt and pepper.
3. Mix all ingredients well. 
4. Refrigerate pico covered for at least 4 hours or overnight to let flavors mingle.
5. Stir well before serving over your favorite Mexican dish or as an appetizer with tortilla chips

Notes

Serve this salsa chunky or finely cut. If you prefer, instead of dicing ingredients, cut down as tiny as possible.

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Nutrition Information:

Yield:

6

Serving Size:

2 people
Amount Per Serving: Calories: 42Total Fat: 0gSaturated Fat: 0gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 0gCholesterol: 0mgSodium: 204mgCarbohydrates: 10gFiber: 1gSugar: 7gProtein: 1g

Nutritional information is automatically calculated with ingredients and serving size and may not be accurate. Please always double check with your own nutritional apps as well.

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