Tuesday, June 5, 2012

Shakib Al Hasan's Pico De Gallo Salsa for Quesadillas

Yes, and a good evening/afternoon/morning to you wherever you find yourself today.  Yesterday I posted a quesadilla recipe, dedicated to the fabulous Bangladesh all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan.  I didn't have the chance to post the recipe for the salsa that goes on top, so here it is now.

How DARE you forget the salsa, you even named it after me, you chowderhead!
Shakib Al Hasan's Pico De Gallo Salsa

Never use a store-bought salsa again.  Pico de gallo salsa, pronounced Pee-ko day ga-yo NOT gay-o, is a freshly cut, tart, spicy and salty sauce which can be put on top of meat, rice, chicken, roti or naan or can be used as a dip with tortilla or roti chips.  Furthermore, pico de gallo is fantastic on scrambled, fried or poached eggs. This is, like Shakib al Hasan, the perfect all-rounder.  Now go sharpen your knife because we're going to deliciousville.

Ingredients:
Some nice ripe red tomatoes, finely chopped
an onion,very finely chopped
a big bunch of coriander (cilantro), very finely chopped
green or red chilies according to taste, very finely chopped
juice of 3 or 4 limes
salt

Mix everything together, and let it sit for a few minutes to that all the flavours meld.  Pico de gallo can keep well in the refrigerator for about 5 days.

Right.  So that's Shakib Al-Hasan's Pico De Gallo Salsa; now go out there and impress your friends with your all-round cheffin' skills and blow their minds.  If Wisden's have a Cheffer of the year, with this recipe and the Quesadillas, you'd probably get nominated.

Happy Cricket, and Happy Cooking!

2 comments:

  1. This is probably one of the things about partner dancing that a lot of us forget. As much as we like the idea of learning to dance 'the right way' all dances are constructs, and thus arbitrary.

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  2. uh...yeahhh, especially seeing as how this construct has to do with cricket and cooking and salsa of the eating variety.

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