Make your own picante sauce!

Jul 10, 2007 Posted by Tiffany on Jul 10, 2007 in Featured, Recipes | 2 comments

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I will openly admit that I LOVE picante sauce. I grew up in Texas, we like our food spicy and there are few things tastier on scrambled eggs than picante. I am a Pace fan (it’s made in San Antonio, you know) but we can’t get it here in Germany. In fact, you can’t get “real” picante sauce at all, just the little jars that they sell with salsa on the chip aisle which still isn’t “real” in my opinion. We had been getting huge jugs of salsa from the commissary via friends but those connections have moved away and I finally ran out of picante about a month ago. So it was time to take matters into my own hands. I found a recipe here that was pretty good but taking the advice of some of the reviewers and adding my own touches to make it “thick and chunky” style. I was very pleased with the results. We ate it last night with chicken quesadillas and it was delicious. Could have been hotter perhaps but still not bad

1 (28 ounce) can crushed tomatoes
10 ounces water
1 medium yellow onion, chopped
2 fresh jalapeño peppers, with seeds, minced (I only had jarred peppers and they also worked great)
1/4 cup jalapeño juice from a jar of pickled jalapeños (or use white vinegar if you don’t want so much spiciness)
1 tablespoon dried onion flakes
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon garlic pepper
1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
1/2 teaspoon lime pepper

Bring all ingredients to a boil in saucepan over med-high heat.
Reduce heat and simmer for 60 minutes or until thick.
Remove from heat and cool.
Store in an airtight jar in refrigerator until serving. You can also make a large batch and freeze it in smaller portions for later which is what we are doing.

I might try throwing in a green bell pepper next time just because I always thought they were in the Pace salsa in the past…but perhaps not. It definitely tastes like the real thing though and your kitchen will smell great afterwards And this is absolutely a great way to get rid of some tomatoes if you use fresh crushed tomatoes instead which I imagine I will need to do when we start harvesting our own tomatoes which will likely be numerous…

2 Responses to “Make your own picante sauce!”

Anonymous says:

July 13, 2007 at 4:53 am

If you can get a hold of fresh peppers, char them on the stove using a pan or skillet before adding to the mix. The skin should get black in places, but you dont want to burn them too hard. Turn them a few times which charring. Gives a nice roasty flavor.

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The Muehli's says:

July 13, 2007 at 4:55 am

Thanks for the tip! We’re actually hoping to grow our own jalepenos next year so we’ll keep that in mind…and we did find one place around here that sells lots of different fresh peppers which is never bad to have around

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