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Salsa is a (usually somewhat spicy) sauce typical of Latin American cuisine, particularly uncooked sauces or dips. Salsa comes from the Spanish word for sauce, from Latin salsa of the same meaning, from sal, " salt". Related words: "saline", " salad". It is usually pronounced IPA /'sɑlsə/ or /'sælsə/ in English, /'salsa/ in the original Spanish.
Well-known salsas:
- Salsa roja (="red sauce"): used as a condiment in Mexican and southwestern U.S. cuisine, and usually made with tomatoes, chile peppers, onion, garlic, and fresh coriander (cilantro) leaves.
- Salsa cruda (="raw sauce") or Pico de gallo (="rooster/cockerel beak"): made with raw tomatoes, onions, peppers, and other coarsely chopped raw ingredients.
- Salsa verde (="green sauce"): made with husk tomatoes, also known as tomatilloThe tomatillo Physalis ixocarpa or Physalis philadelphica is a small, spherical and green or green-purple fruit surrounded by an enlarged calyx or paper-like husk. As the fruit matures, it fills the husk and can split it open by harvest. The husk is browns. Sauces made with tomatillos are usually cooked.
- Salsa brava (="wild sauce"): When put on top of potato wedges, it makes the dish patatas bravas, typical of tapas bars in CataloniaComunitat Autonoma de Catalunya In detail Capital Barcelona Official languages Spanish and Catalan In Val d'Aran, also Aranese. Area total % of Spain Ranked 6th 32 114 km² 6,3% Population Total (2003) % of Spain Density Ranked 2nd 6 506 440 15,6% 190,73/k. Salsa brava is usually a mayonnaise-tabasco mix.
- GuacamoleGuacamole is an avocado-based relish or dip originating in Mexico. In addition to avocados, the basic ingredients are onion, lime or lemon juice, and salt and pepper. Variations often include tomato or tomatillo, chiles, cilantro, garlic, other spices, an: Any sauce whose main ingredient is avocadoThe avocado is a tree and the fruit of that tree Persea americana in the flowering plant family Lauraceae. It is a tree to 20 m tall, with alternately arranged evergreen leaves 12-25 cm long. The flowers are inconspicuous, greenish-yellow, 5-10 mm wide. is usually called guacamole.
There are many other salsas, both traditional and nouveau: for instance, some are made with mintThis article is about the herb. See Mint (disambiguation) for other meanings. Mentha aquatica ''Mentha arvensis ''Mentha citrata ''Mentha longifolia ''Mentha x piperita ''Mentha pulegium ''Mentha requienii ''Mentha spicata ''Mentha suaveolens True Mint s, pineappleThe Pineapple Ananas comosus is a tropical plant and its fruit, native to Brazil, Bolivia, and Paraguay. The plant is a bromeliad (Family Bromeliaceae , a short, herbaceous perennial with thirty or more long, spined and pointed leaves surrounding a thick, or mangoThis article is about the fruit. For other meanings of the word, please see Mango (disambiguation). M. altissima ''M. caesia ''M. camptosperma ''M. casturi ''M. domestica ''M. foetida ''M. indica ''M. kemanga ''M. longipes ''M. macrocarpa ''M. odorata ''M.
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Salsa (music), Salsa (dance)
Condiments
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