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If you are really lazy like me, air fry the onions, peppers, tomato and garlic. About 10 mins at 400f, no babysitting required or heating up your entire oven. Then I peel them and put them straight into the blender. So easy.

internet o'neil this video has single handedly saved my life. my student loans were forgiven, my skin is clear and my salsas are yumdelish 5000. praise be to netshaq, amen

@setharnold9764

Ай бұрын

"if you share this KZread video with twenty friends, you're guaranteed these results! If you don't share this video, you'll stub your toe."

@Deathmageddon

25 күн бұрын

I named my firstborn after his mustache, praise be

@soulbot119

21 күн бұрын

*O'Neal ... but wait a second... I just realized that Shaq is Irish. Why did he become a basketball player? He could've been the greatest bare-knuckle boxer in Ireland's history. smh, wasted opportunity

@plwadodveeefdv

20 күн бұрын

Shacolytes, assemble!

hey, i'm feeling a little extra motivated to try making my own salsa, today!

Really appreciate the "make in smaller batches" tip and ratio ideas. A lot less pressure for a solo eater and more chances to try different variations. Thanks!

this feels like one of those videos that will completely change the trajectory of my life

I can tell you been watching the dancing fruit videos with the baby

@internetshaquille

Ай бұрын

lmao busted by the bobbing romas

@GarrettWease

Ай бұрын

Lmaoooooo

Another great video, Shaq. This video framework works so well for cooking related content: theory -> common problems -> practical use cases -> advanced twists on the basic formula. Your design school education really shines through. Thanks!

@oo-ek5pn

Ай бұрын

I love your videos

@dunkirkyfuckspruce3075

Ай бұрын

Another great comment, Kurtis. This comment framework works so well for feedback related content: theory -> common problems -> practical use hitlers -> advanced twists on the basic hitler. Your nerve gas education really shines through. Thanks! hitting concrete at that speed is like speed hitting water hitting concrete hitting hitler!

@mariamurray3959

11 күн бұрын

Thank you for all the different salsa!! Never knew it had so much range

I loved the visual of having a lineup and swapping items out/in of it.

only cooking channel that understands how people actually cook

This is my favorite cooking content on KZread now. I feel you’re teaching how to cook, not how to follow recipes. You include a recipe but your notes about how we should experiment resonate with me. I know some people who treat recipes as gospel. But cooking is so much more fun when you just know what you can do, and make stuff happen.

@TsunamiWombat

Ай бұрын

I'd put his cooking videos right up there with Chef John at food wishes

@armadillito

Ай бұрын

This is how almost any good, serious cooking advice is. Recipes remain useful even for the experienced cook when doing something highly technical, especially baking.

I took your last call to action to heart and did try making salsa today. Grilled some jalapenos and onion, found a can of tomatoes. Was really great! Will definitely be thinking about what other ingredients are locally available that I can salsify in the future. Thanks~!

Your writing, brevity and infomation density is such a pleasure - thank you for the amazing recipes, videos and inspiration - been following you for years and regularly incorporate your ideas into my cooking, thinking and videos

Perfect time, just wanted to have salsa (I always want salsa)

Make your own salsa...today! Me on the computer at 11pm: mmm maybe not today.

You forgot to warn your viewers that once they start making their own salsas, they won't be able to go back to store bought. Great video as always Shaq!

@longnailsareok

Ай бұрын

this is so unbelievably real. I simply cannot do storebought salsas anymore.

@plwadodveeefdv

13 күн бұрын

I'm on my third try following these instructions and haven't made a good salsa yet 😂

Started making salsa every week a few months ago and have taken a random walk through salsa variations that is very accurately summarized here. Get those dried chilis in there, folks. Once you do, you won't go back. Tomatillo, onion, cilantro, a morita for smokiness, guajillos for body, and arbol for spice has been my favorite. Now trying to figure out whether I can tolerate enough spice to get a salsa that actually TASTES like habaneros.

@internetshaquille

Ай бұрын

That last sentence is the exact reason why I tried growing habanada peppers. I wanted to mix them 50/50 with habaneros to keep the flavor but lower the spice.

@andrewb9942

Ай бұрын

Btw, rehydrate those dried chilies and blend them in the dehydrating water as the first step in your blender. Otherwise you are going to have to make soup of your poor tomatillos trying to break down the dried chilies later if they all go in at once. Took me a few gummy/snotty batches to learn that lesson.

@andrewb9942

Ай бұрын

@internetshaquille where did you get your seeds? I have been thinking about doing the same - love their flavor but have no way to get an intense version of it.

Shaq is love, Shaq is life. Fr, the most consistent, friendly, efficient, savvy food creator on the net. On a level with Chef John, who is royalty.

I really appreciate how purely educational and more brand safe these vids are so that I can watch them at the PC Bang in restricted mode. Good job daddy!

I made a pico de gallo that had too much onion, and you inspired me to grab my dried chilis and attempt to fix it. Thanks bro.

This was super helpful! You’re honestly the only cooking KZreadr I’ve watched where the stuff you go over, are things I’ve implemented in my cooking. Thanks a bunch!

Just made bad salsa. Needed this 7 hours ago. But this weekend's attempt will be better!

@sheelfjohnson

Ай бұрын

I'm hoping that all of the bad salsas I have made will only build up my salsa making calluses and make me stronger.☺️

I appreciate your approach of giving basic principles instead of specific recipes. Adapting based on what you have rather than cooking to recipes also reduces food waste.

I love salsa, love salsa making, and while I enjoy all your videos and topics, I love seeing you tap into your Mexican heritage as it’s by far my favorite cuisine on earth.

@caseyjones5145

Ай бұрын

If I had to pick one style of food for the rest of my life, it would be Mexican 100%

God dude I just love this channel so much

As a Mexican who's made salsa since i was 7-9 y/o, this is a well made tutorial for beginners. My only criticism is you need way more garlic, But that could just be my personal taste. I'd like to add to this videos by saying, you can roast the dried chillies over open flame, or frying pan, but do this with as much Kitchen ventilation as you can, including open windows and fans. Also, I use sweet onions like Vidalia onions, Or similar as a way of adding sweetness. Also lime is a very valuable ingredient that you should try mixing in. I use lime in usually half of all salsa

@chickenfishhybrid44

Ай бұрын

Absolutely on the lime

@itsgonnabeanaurfromme

Ай бұрын

You're right. It is your personal taste and it's pretty rude to go "you need way more.." to someone who is already pretty well versed in cooking and didn't ask for your opinion

@autodidacticartisan

Ай бұрын

@@itsgonnabeanaurfromme You're right. I'm a terrible person.

@Brent-jj6qi

6 күн бұрын

Every recipe always has a good start to the amount of garlic, no recipe has the proper amount, *more garlic*

@Mrclean431

4 күн бұрын

​@@itsgonnabeanaurfrommewhat are u some kinda tough guy ? Ur opinion is even less valuable than his. Shush.

Ohh fun! My salsa garden seedlings are already thriving so this will come in handy during harvest time 👩🏿‍🌾

@internetshaquille

Ай бұрын

salsa garden oo la la

Loving some of the new stuff your putting out king, your my favourite content creator, the perfect amount of education for all different levels of hyperfixation. Keep up the amazing work

Ive been wanting to use Trade for forever and I used your code from the last ad read and it lived up to any and all the praise I heard from you and other annecdotally. Im a coffee lover with an aeropress and an conical burr grinder and this was perfect for me. Thanks Shaq!

the written recipes are a comfortable starting place for the anxious and less experience folks, so thank you. a younger me might not realize a whole onion in with a 10oz can of tomatoes and a tablespoon of cumin might not turn out how i expect. Now that I've got some experience under my belt I appreciate the encouragement to get creative. excellent video once again!

@itsgonnabeanaurfromme

Ай бұрын

Good job. Yes that is the point of the video. Good for you for realizing.

@Quixan

Ай бұрын

@@itsgonnabeanaurfromme I'm so glad I could figure out the video. you on the other hand don't have any use and serve no purpose.

@perhaps1094

24 күн бұрын

​@@Quixanevery single one of their comments is combative and weird

SALSA BOYS 🤞🏽🤞🏽🤞🏽 thank you Shaq for another gem

I was literally gonna make salsa today, thanks for the timely upload!

Saw this at work today and tried it when I got home. I only had red bell peppers, and I definitely see what you mean about the peppers being such a driving force of the flavor. Ended up being fine after adding cayenne and squeezed lemon. Excited to try it more!

as someone who is dumb I genuinely appreciate the inclusion of the written recipes. thanks net shaq!

This is THE BEST video regarding Salsa. I was looking for Salsa verde recipes. Saw a million recipes for it. Came across this, and now I can make any salsa. That's rather epic.

Love your honesty and sense of humor, love your page!

ive been sorely needing some actually good salsa, today will be the day!

@cooberr

Ай бұрын

i have done it! unfortunately in my excitement i did make mistake #4 :/ still tastes pretty darn good! next batch will be even better

Really nice clear well delivered video. Love the opinion that canned tomatoes should be used over out of season winter tomatoes. If the tomatoes aren't good they're not worth using. Love the preference for no recipes. It's way nicer to cook for yourself without dogmaticslly sticking to a recipe

Bro, thank you for keeping the flavors of culture alive. Having moved away from L.A. to Seattle three years ago, I have found that I am best off making real Mexican food at home. This video is a great resource for someone who took for granted the eateries around his former block. Muchos Gracias

@plwadodveeefdv

13 күн бұрын

Bro there used to be some dank Mexican food in Tacoma. It was a little red building off I-5 somewhere, the carne adobada was off the hook

@stpedro-ht9ng

12 күн бұрын

Y’all are making me so grateful to have an authentic and cheap Mexican food truck a block right outside my apartment. Oh Los Angeles…

I appreciate this video being released right as our tomato, jalapeno, and tomatillo plants are starting to flower. Thank you for teaching this italian from New York so much about Mexican food.

Thank you for sharing!!!This video was sooo informative I really enjoyed watching!

was just thinking that i'd love a video from you on salsa or dried peppers, it's like you read my mind! thanks for the great video as always. greetings from frigid iceland!

Im glad somebody finally acknowledged it. Mexican groceries are something found in Mexico and the USA

For those of you that want a chipotle pico clone, I worked it out some years ago: -Some kind of tomato, the best ones you can get ahold of (diced about 1/4”) -Red onion diced finer than the tomato -Jalapeño or poblano diced same as the onion -Garlic diced even finer or grated -Cilantro leaves and the small stems -Black pepper -Salt and lime juice, tasting and adding little by little until you find the balance you’re looking for

Easily one of the best youtubers on this site. And i mean in general not just in the cooking section!

It's been barely a week and a half since this video came out and I've already made two batches of basic salsa by myself. My takeaway: Man, I'm never buying a jar of salsa unless I absolutely have to ever again. I'm starting to get ideas for how to up my salsa game and start incorporating it into more meal planning.

Immediately made salsa after watching and it was so good i had to make a few more batches. 10/10 video my life is forever changed

Dude, this is one of the best videos you’ve ever made.

Super useful video! The blender tip makes a lot of sense

Brilliant, as always.

Hey shaq! I did it. Added dry guajillos to my basic salsa. Delicious!

for what it's worth i've been looking to up my salsa game past the dried chilis stage and i would absolutely watch the 1-hour shaq explains the decision tree of every ingredient cut of this video

incredible video as always. thanks!

Dude! I just made salsa for the first time using your video and it's so good! Thank you so much I got to make my mom and dad's day with fresh salsa :)

I appreciate this video. We planted a large part of our new garden last year with salsa making in mind. We ended up with way too many tomatoes (especially given your recommendations), tons of tomatillos from just 2 plants (those things grow massive!), we tried making salsa from some recipes and it was very lackluster. Pretty discouraging after a full grow season of anticipation. Hoping to try more things this year and that salsa verde base sounds fantastic, especially since we still have tons of tomatillos left.

I've already started making my own salsa! This is just a sign I should continue!!

you definitely peaked my interest in the complexity of pepper transformation over time. brb gonna do about ten hours of research on just that alone

As expected of the Net Shaq, a true mexican salsa masterclass! I'll share this anytime someone asks me for a salsa recipe 😂

literally pondering salsa when this vid comes up. 10/10

Love this channel bro. So much to learn because I grew up in America eating processed food. Im making a effort to eat different Appreciate your videos. Much Love.

This might be one of your best videos

Will definitely try once summer rolls around

Chef kiss and kiss the cook. I love your videos. This was a great one. Nothing I needed to personally hear, but I’m glad that this information is out there man I dig washing so a refresher is never a bad thing.

Amazing video about salsas. I love your simple explanation about the main types of salsa. Now I would love to see you do a video on Mole and Adobo. Some videos say they are each varied and some say they are about the same. Your simple take on it would be instructive. Thanks.

I moved away from an area with abundant and delicous Mexican food and have for years dreamt of my favorite burrito joint's tomatillo-avocado salsa. You inspired me to try making it and HOLY GUACAMOLE it transports me right back there. It's so good and so easy to make. Thanks, Internet Shaquille, for bringing some delicious joy into my life!

What great timing. I recently inherited like 30 cans of diced tomatoes. I’m going to salsa town

I was just telling my mom we should make fresh salsa! Perfect timing

Quality content, as always! Thanks for the good info 👍

Great video. I'm a 60+ gringo who has been making salsa since I was a teen (standard spicy red table salsa but with cilantro, scallions and a bit of cumin added). I occasionally can it and gift it. In the last 5 or so years I have ventured into Salsa Verde (which we love). I have never tried adding dried chilies (other than some off the shelf Chile powder) to my recipe. Will definitely give that a try!

You’ve been killing it lately with the high quality content!

Bro -- in a long line of great episodes...I think this is your best one!

Gonna go make it right now.

The best cooking channel on KZread.

Thanks bro, really good cooking vid!

Perfect timing. I’ve been wanting to make salsa, since it’s a very healthy way to add flavor to meat and vegetables without adding too many calories.

@Jexx5000

Ай бұрын

For me its bad timing because i made salsa yesterday, 😂 but im probably going to make it again soon.

@rbain2813

Ай бұрын

​@@Jexx5000 lol same. It's okay, but I suspect my next batch will improve.

@persiktam

Ай бұрын

And hydration!

Heck yes! This is a great salsa video. My favorite version is essentially shaq’s basic salsa with 3 or 4 garlic cloves, one poblano, one jalapeño, and one chili de arbol. It’s spicy and complex and delicious. And left over arbol chilies are great in all sorts of cooking experiments

I almost skipped this one. I am really glad I didn't! Great video.

700K, woo! 🥳 Congrats on just passing that milestone now, Victor!!! Enjoying all your videos, it is so nice to see how far you have come in the last years! Much love from Berlin! 💚

@internetshaquille

8 күн бұрын

Thanks Donnie. I've never really told anyone, but 700k was always my big dream milestone goal. I always thought that was the perfect channel size... big but not TOO big

Thank you! Hated making foamy salsa

Great video. I am motivated to make salsa and chips this week

Long time salsa maker here

@internetshaquille

Ай бұрын

5:30

@WayStedYou

Ай бұрын

I was gonna say, "What do you mean?" he mentions salt, but Shaquille got here first

@TsunamiWombat

Ай бұрын

salinity deniers devastated

@itsPersonnal

Ай бұрын

Whoops​@@internetshaquille

I really enjoy this guy's delivery and knowledge, thanks man!

Chile Cascabel!❤ 1lb tomatillos, Small 4-6 chiles de arbol and 3 cascabels. Perfect Taco salsq, chop in some onion and cilantro 🎉

Thanks for making this. Just made my first homemade salsa (some salsa borracha with chipotles) and it it phenomenal. I live basically next door to a supermercado so I think this is going to become a regular thing.

Very excited to try making my own salsa now

Weird, I've been making my own salsa lately, and while I thinks its decent, these tips will enhance every bit of flavor I've been hoping to achieve!

Finally went to the big Mexican grocery store in town while I'm currently obsessed w making tortillas and tacos and Mexican food and it was awesome. Got home and make xoconostle salsa w Chile morita inspired by this video. Was super cool cause I had never had those things. Also bought a tortilladora and made chicharrones en frijoles negro w newly bought avocado leaves and epazote. Awesome stuff. And tip for the other not quite fresh masa-pilled yet - the maseca nixta masa product is actually so crazy good I was really surprised how immediately I was able to make perfect tortillas after I always struggled keeping the blue corn one perfectly hydrated

I actually picked up the ingredients for a tomatillo salsa verde, but was worried about aerating too much as I've done previously. Hadn't cooked the ingredients down before and just blasted em on high in the blender (oops! lol). Thanks for the vid. Hey, I'm feeling a little extra motivated to try making my own salsa, today!

i love making salsa, great video! my usual recipe is chef john's fire roasted cherry tomato salsa.

Awesome video, cant wait to try it out!

Fantastic video. I too failed with the fresh into the blender method too many times before going on a salsa journey. For those looking for more recipes to broaden your horizons...the salsa from 'Oaxaca' cookbook by Bricia Lopez are worth getting the whole book for. I have their roasted tomatillo salsa in my fridge at all times. The morita/guajillo/tomatillo salsa is my desert island salsa.

Made my own salsa just now I tweaked the recipe but it was tasty thank you

Such a great video!!

I like a salsa verde that is literally just blended fresh jalapeños, water, and salt. Somehow the simplicity is better than more complex green sauces. Learned it from a hole-in-the-wall restaurant in Mesa, AZ called Rosita's Place (not to be confused with the Rosita's chain, which is very bland).

So good

Excellent video

Oh thank you, so you cook the veg before and then grind it up. Thank you so much!

@TsunamiWombat

Ай бұрын

or cook the whole thing after in a bit of oil to make that one whose name I already forgot it's in the video. Salsa Fresca is a thing but it's better known as Pico de Gallo and requires really good fresh ingredients for obv reasons,

Was going to make pico for some tacos tomorrow since I've made that a few times but thanks to this video tried my hand at the red salsa. The basic recipe is definitely basic with a capital B, perfect for experimenting but bland on its own. Turned mine from mid to restaurant quality in a few minutes with some cilantro, cumin, sugar, and lime. Even made my own tortilla chips for the first time. Thanks for the push, I always forget how much fun it can be to experiment and try new things. Now I gotta dig out that old forgotten can of chipotle peppers in adobo I have somewhere and use that once I'm done with this batch.

Great video, as always! I have a very simple question: How to do I use dried peppers? Just as is in the salsa? Do I have to re-hydrate them? Ground them?

@wright.boy_

Ай бұрын

Rehydrate first, they will blend more smoothly. You can also first toast them dry to unlock more flavor.

@Supersamazing

Ай бұрын

@@wright.boy_ Thanks!

Awesome video, though as a taster of cilantro's off flavor, I think I've discovered there's more nastiness in the stems. The acids in salsa seem to tame it somewhat, but it might be worth using leaves if you're serving someone that doesn't like that flavor.