Salsa Dip Recipe for Chips While Watching Movies

Every movie lover knows popcorn is the number one treat to get when at a theater but at home it's salsa and chips that wins the day. Here are the easy "rules" for making great salsa in a hurry...

The key here is to use whatever you have on hand. Everyone usually has this stuff around the house. Choose one of each:

Tomato-y stuff:  a can of crushed tomato (or diced tomato with can juices, or whole plum tomato that you squish with your hands plus juice in same can, or fresh cut up tomatoes)

Sour acidy stuff:  splash of vinegar or bottled lemon juice, or squeeze of lemon or lime juice (grate the yellow or green skin in there too -- don't get any of the white pith -- if you have the fresh stuff)

Aromatic stuff (meaning the onion/garlic family):  grated or chopped onion and/or garlic, or onion and/or garlic powder, or onion/garlic salt (don't add any other salt if you do this).  Onions can be white or green with the green tops included.

Oily stuff:  olive, vegetable, or canola oil, etc.

Hot stuff:  Canned/jarred/fresh jalapenos cut up (throw away the white seeds before you chop them if don't want it to be super hot), or a few dashes of Tabasco or other bottled hot sauce.  Red pepper flakes or powdered cayenne will also do.

Seasoning adjustment:  salt if none has gone in before, and a little sugar to balance the oily, salty, and acidic tastes.

Above is the minimum.  Start with a little bit of everything in with the tomato and then start tasting with bits of chips to see if it needs to be more spicy, or salty, etc.

Add-ins, if available:  finely chopped celery, finely chopped green or red pepper. Chopped up chipotle chiles in adobo from a can (people will ask to marry you if you use some of this, or you can also use some chipotle powder instead. If you go with the chipotle powder, use a little maple syrup instead of sugar as a sweetener). Fresh chopped cilantro (if you have fresh lime along with the cilantro, people will also start following you around).

Be daring and swap out the tomatoes for something else, like diced ripe fresh peaches or diced ripe mangoes. But if you do this, you will have to get an unlisted phone number.

As you can see, we take salsa very seriously here at MovieFanCollectibles.