Tomatillo Salsa Verde Recipe with Avocado (Video) - A Spicy Perspective (2024)

Tomatillo Salsa Verde Recipe (with Avocado) –Fresh salsa verde blended with ripe avocados for a silky texture with a punch of heat. This is the BEST salsa verde we’ve ever made!

Fresh Tomatillos in Salsa

This Tomatillo Avocado Salsa Verde Recipe is freshly picked straight out of the ASP garden! (When I say garden, I really mean flowerbeds.)

For years I’ve pretended to have a green thumb, digging in the dirt, researching regional plants, perusing plant nurseries. Truthfully, I have no idea what I’m doing. I plant things in the wrong places, prune too much or too little, and forget to water.

I’m a bad plant-mamma.

Giving up mid-season, I alwaysdetermine next year’s garden will be a masterpiece.

A garden is never so good as it will be next year. ~ Thomas Cooper

This year I decided since my “landscaping” always looks wild and unruly, why not plant some produce in it. It couldn’t possibly make it look any worse.

And you know what? It actually looks pretty good with the blooming squash blossoms, variegated heirloom tomatoes, Japanese eggplants, and ethereal tomatillos scattered about.

How To Grow Tomatillos

Tomatillos are such unique looking plants, with hearty tomato-like stalks, and little paper lanterns hanging everywhere. The tomatillos start out like tiny bulbs inside lime green lanterns. Then as they grow, they fill in the paper wrappings until they are tight. Full lanterns mean ripe tomatillos.

And they are very hard to kill easy to grow! After sticking them in the ground with very little thought, they just take off.

Tomatillosoffer a vibrant tart flavor, almost like a citrusy apple, and are much firmer than tomatoes.

What Can You Do With Tomatillos?

• Eat them raw with a sprinkle of salt and sugar.
• Add them to cold or hot soups.
• Thicken and flavor chili.
• Fry them like green tomatoes.
• Chop them for salads.
• Make Tomatillo Salsa Verde!

Our Favorite Tomatillo Avocado Salsa Recipe

Tomatillo Salsa Verde is delightful in a raw or cooked state, but I prefer mine somewhere in between.

Roasting the tomatillos for a short time provides a lovely balance in flavor, leaving the raw edgy appeal, but also providing a rustic charred quality.

Tomatillo Salsa is a true family favorite that is lighter and perkier than most tomato salsas. The extra acidity from the tomatillos holds up well against spicy heat.

Today’s Creamy Tomatillo Avocado Salsa Verde Recipe is unique because it contains avocados as well as tomatillos. The creamy consistency of the avocados combined with the zippy tomatillos is sublimely addictive.

In fact, it’s so addictive that I’ve developed my Tomatillo Avocado Salsa to make FOUR QUARTS in one batch! Of course you could half it, but once your friends and neighbors taste this, they’ll be knocking at your doors holding bags of tortilla chips.

Creamy Avocado Salsa Verde (Freezer-Friendly)

Plus, you can freeze this salsa verde recipe for later.

Although it’s not a great idea to “can” anything with avocados, this recipe freezes very well.

So long after your tomatillos have withered away, you can enjoy roasted tomatillo salsa and wish for warm weather again. Here’s what you need to make it…

Avocado Salsa Verde Recipe Ingredients

• Fresh Tomatillos
• Onions
• Garlic
• Jalapeños
• Vegetable Oil
• Ground Cumin
• Cilantro
• Ripe Avocados
• Lime

How To Make Salsa Verde From Scratch

1. Peel and chop the produce. Place the tomatillos, onions, garlic, and jalapeños on a rimmed baking sheet.

2. Roast in the oven until the exteriors are blistered.

3. Meanwhile, scoop out the avocado flesh.

4. Place the tomatillos, onions, jalapeños, and garlic in a food processor. Pulse until mostly smooth.

5. Add the cumin, salt, cilantro and avocado. Pulse again until the avocado is pureed into the mixture.

Get The Full Recipe For How To Make Tomatillo Avocado Salsa Verde Below!

What Do You Do With Salsa Verde?

Well, you eat it of course! I could eat a gallon of this tomatillo salsa verde with a bag or tortilla chips.

However, you can also use your Homemade Salsa Verde in:

• Enchiladas
• Burritos
• Quesadillas
• Mexican casseroles
• Spooned over grilled chicken, fish, steak, or burgers
• Swirled into chilis and creamy soups
• As a healthy salad dressing

More Tomatillo Recipes

• Hamburgers with Watermelon and Salsa Verde
• The BEST Salsa Verde Chicken Enchiladas
• Creamy Salsa Verde Chicken Skillet

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