Pico de Gallo
Home » COOK » Recipes » International Recipes » Mexican & Tex-Mex Recipes »Pico de Gallo is a Mexican fresh salad made with tomatoes, onions, chilies, cilantro, and lime juice. There are variations, as with so many recipes, and I too tweaked the basic recipe to my own. It’s a great salad to have in your arsenal, is quick to make, and goes great with barbecued food, on tortillas and tacos, or just as a chunky dip.
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Pico De Gallo
You only need a few ingredients to make Pico de Gallo, and it’s one of those that you can adjust to your personal flavour preferences too. I used tomatoes, red onions, fresh coriander, a green chilli, bell peppers, garlic salt, and fresh lime juice.
All the ingredients are chopped finely, mixed together and then seasoned with garlic salt and lime juice. Giving exact measurements is tricky as I believe it’s all down to personal tastes with a dish like this! If you like your food hotter – add more chilli; don’t like heat – leave the chilli out! More tomato, less coriander..it’s all up to you!
Pico de Gallo
Ingredients
- ripe tomatoes finely chopped
- red onions finely chopped
- red orange and yellow bell peppers, deseeded and finely chopped
- fresh coriander finely chopped
- green chilli deseeded and finely chopped
- garlic salt
- lime juice
Instructions
- Mix the tomatoes, onions, bell peppers and coriander in a bowl
- Add the chilli – to your heat level!
- Season with garlic salt and lime juice and stir together well
- Chill in the fridge until required
Nutrition
Nutritional information is always approximate and will depend on the quality of ingredients used and serving sizes. If you need exact calories and macros, please do your own calculations.
Kirsty Phillipson-Lowe
June 9, 2014 @ 11:21 pm
Mmmmm I love Mexican and this looks delicious! I used to have salads similar to this when I lived in Gran Canaria, must give this one a go x
MrsShilts
June 9, 2014 @ 9:21 pm
Oh this looks like my kind of salad. I love the colours!
Tami Anderson
June 9, 2014 @ 7:38 pm
That looks like a lovely fresh and colourful salad. Hopefully the summer will be here soon so we can start eating more things like this!
Michelle Ordever
June 9, 2014 @ 7:42 pm
It was really tasty! I could have quite happily munched my way through a bowl of this! Lets hope the nice weather just STAYS instead of keep changing!! x
Victoria MyLittleLBlog
June 9, 2014 @ 7:06 pm
lovely, refreshing salad, but for my liking i would avoid onions
Michelle Ordever
June 9, 2014 @ 7:42 pm
That’s the beauty of a salad – switch it up to your tastes!
Zena's Suitcase
June 9, 2014 @ 3:42 pm
Looks wonderful, fresh, colourful and tasty like a good salad should be :-)
Michelle Ordever
June 9, 2014 @ 7:42 pm
It ticks all of those boxes! It was so summery! x
Vaichin@RamblingThroughParenth
June 9, 2014 @ 1:31 pm
This looks very similar to what my Mother rustles up, minus the peppers. Will try it with them in as well. x
Michelle Ordever
June 9, 2014 @ 7:42 pm
I love that you can mix and match with salads! x