How to make fresh & simple chipotle salsa

The ingredients minus the chipotle peppers. TIP: You can buy chipotle peppers canned in adobo sauce. I normally only use 2 so I freeze the rest in packs of 2 to thaw later.

Dice the tomatoes. I like to cut them off as shown.

I generally discard some of the mush inside.

Slice across..

Then turn and slice the other way to complete the dice.

Chop some cilantro - I discard some of the stems, but chop the rest up with the leaves. If you're bored you're welcome to peel individual leaves.

Somewhat roughly chopped - smells great!

Squeeze juice of a lime into the salsa.

Now for some heat! To finely dice the jalapeño I cut the stem and tip off then slice to remove the pepper's sides.

Skinned!

Slice each piece lengthwise then crosswise.

Diced!

Now, I finely dice the chipotle peppers. I just cut the the stem off and dice everything including seeds. These are mushy so just chop chop the best you can and you'll be fine.

Almost there!

Dicing an onion was something I hated until I learned an easy way.. Slice through the root..

Peel back the first couple of layers..

Add the onions to the salsa, stir it up & enjoy!! TIP: allow salsa to sit for 30 mins to an hour before serving to allow flavors to develop