6.12.2011

Green Sauce

One of my greatest food weaknesses is chips and salsa. I'm not talking about grocery store salsa and a bag of Tostitos. I mean warm chips and fresh salsa from a legit Tex-Mex restaurant (which are abounding in Southeast Texas).

But you can't just go to a Mexican restaurant and eat chips and salsa, which creates a problem for people like me. My dilemma was solved when a woman from church brought the creamiest, yummiest green sauce to a home bible study a while back. We got the recipe for her, but never made it for ourselves. While flipping through our home recipe book a few days ago, the recipe caught my eye and suddenly my salsa cravings were back. I made it promptly.

You will need:
*1 bunch cilantro, coarsely chopped
*1/3 jar green salsa (she specified Herdez, so use that if you can find it)
*1 tsp minced garlic
*1 jalapeno pepper, de-seeded and finely diced
*16 oz. container sour cream (I used fat free to cut down on calories)
*1 package dry ranch dressing mix (not ranch dip mix!)
*4 slices of fried bacon, crumbled

The process for this is pretty simple...Just mix all of the ingredients together in a mixing bowl with a spatula, then transfer to a blender and pulse until you reach the desired consistency.


Serve with corn chips, or vegetables if you're trying to eat healthier.

3 comments:

  1. i promise, you can use 0% fat greek yogurt, plain of course, instead of that sour cream and NO ONE will know the difference and you can eat it like it's your job. seriously. i use a little ranch dressing mix in plain yogurt all the time and pass it off as a dip and no one complains. try it once and see.

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  2. I LOVE Greek yogurt. Definitely trying it next time I make this!

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  3. mm..just stumbled across this- looks super yummy. im pretty much automatically in love with anything that contains cilantro :D

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