How to cook with CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) week 12 : Easy tomatillo tomato salsa, parsley “hummus pesto”

 

9/12/2020

CSA week 12 veggies showing tomatoes, cherry peppers, 
tomatillos, carrots, shallot, corn, cabbage and kale

This week I received tomatillos, peppers, cilantro, corn, tomatoes, kale, cabbage, carrots, and a shallot. 

Recipe 1: Easy tomatillo, tomato salsa:

This is a super easy twist on the traditional salsa verde.  I blanch tomatillo and tomatoes in boiling water then process them with garlic and peppers (and a shallot).  I like to include tomatoes because they balance acidity of tomatillos.  Full of flavor and goes nicely with virtually all dishes, particularly with pork and seafood. 

Ingredients: tomatillos (about 3/4 lb), tomatoes (2 med size), garlic (2 tbs, chopped), peppers (1 med size, any varieties, in this recipe I used 1 cherry pepper from Eight Mile Creek Farm)

Easy tomatillo tomato salsa

How:

1.  Boil water in a pot and cook tomatillos and tomatoes until softened for about 3-5min.  Peel off outer skin layer from tomatoes, if desired.

2.  Add tomatillos and tomatoes in the food processor along with the rest of aromatic veggies.  Process until desired texture is achieved.

3.   Season to taste with salt and serve with cilantro.   

 

Garlic butter shrimp served with tomatillo tomato salsa

Recipe 2: Parsley peanut butter hummus pesto:

This is a recipe I made last week with the beautiful parsley I received from Pam, our wonderful CSA farmer from Eight Mile Creek Farm.  This is a hybrid of pesto and hummus! 😊 I used peanut butter in lieu of traditionally used tahini paste because I didn’t have it.  It worked out very well! 

Ingredients: parsley (2 cups, chopped), canned chickpeas (15 oz, any cooked beans will do), peanut butter (2 TB), lemon, garlic (2 tsp, chopped), extra virgin olive oil (about ¼ cup), kosher salt

Parsley hummus pesto ingredients

1.  Process parsley, beans, juice from lemon, garlic and olive oil until desired consistency is achieved.

2.  Season to taste.    

   

 

(L) Parsley hummus pesto served with pan roasted "beat chips" 
and crackers (R) pickled beats 

Hope you try these awesome recipes and like them as much as I do! 

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