AuthorStacy SaundersCategorySaucesDifficultyBeginnerThought you'd never get to eat chips & salsa again? You can!
Yield: About 1- 1 1/2 cups
Remove stem & seeds from the red pepper and slice into large pieces. Coat with olive oil, place on a baking sheet with parchment paper and broil in the oven for about 1-3 minutes. Watch it carefully so it doesn't burn! Go for a nice bubbly, slightly browned skin. Remove from oven.
Chop your other pepper and onion into large pieces. Wash your cilantro. Discard the longest parts of the stem, and pat dry with a paper towel.
Put roasted pepper into a food processor. Blend until it's somewhat smooth.
Add yellow pepper, onion, garlic, and cilantro and blend until the pieces are in small chunks, about 1-2 minutes (more or less depending on how robust your food processor is).
Add salt to taste. Serve with tortilla chips or over tacos!
Make a double batch and freeze it in 1/4c. or 1/2 c. sizes to make low histamine nacho sauce later!
You guys, I love salsa. In college my roommates & I often had late night "chips & salsa parties". Then I got married to a man who loves salsa way more than I do. He served a mission in Mexico for 2 years for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in his 20s. And they make AMAZING salsa, or so I've heard from him. So we would make homemade salsa regularly. I was SO bummed to lose another favorite snack when I switched to low histamine. No tomatoes, no cumin, no hot peppers. Sadness!!!
Then I found this recipe. It's so tasty and it freezes & thaws well (victory dance!)
Now we can have chips & salsa parties again.
P.S. The ingredients are so appealing that Rosie couldn't resist sneaking away with a few of the peppers during the photo shoot haha!
Ingredients
Directions
Remove stem & seeds from the red pepper and slice into large pieces. Coat with olive oil, place on a baking sheet with parchment paper and broil in the oven for about 1-3 minutes. Watch it carefully so it doesn't burn! Go for a nice bubbly, slightly browned skin. Remove from oven.
Chop your other pepper and onion into large pieces. Wash your cilantro. Discard the longest parts of the stem, and pat dry with a paper towel.
Put roasted pepper into a food processor. Blend until it's somewhat smooth.
Add yellow pepper, onion, garlic, and cilantro and blend until the pieces are in small chunks, about 1-2 minutes (more or less depending on how robust your food processor is).
Add salt to taste. Serve with tortilla chips or over tacos!
Make a double batch and freeze it in 1/4c. or 1/2 c. sizes to make low histamine nacho sauce later!
Is cumin high histamine? I’m new to this and haven’t seen that on any no no list.
According to the SIGHI list, which is what I follow, cumin is rated a histamine level 2, which is high histamine, but not the highest. Which is a bummer, because it’s so delicious!
Thank so you much for posting this! I love salsa and have been missing it so much. This was absolutely delicious and hit the spot right on! Thank you!
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Thanks so much for all your recipes and info. Which chips are you using?
I use great value tortilla chips from walmart. I’ve used a few different brands, this is the criteria I look for: If it’s cooked in canola, corn, or olive oil, that’s great. Usually it’s a mix of canola, sunflower, corn, or safflower oil. We tolerate that. The main red flag oils for us are olive oil or soybean.
Main red flag is olive oil???
According to the SIGHI food list, olive oil is not high histamine. Although it does say it’s incompatible for people with salicylate intolerance.
I’m allergic to peppers and it’s the worst thing ever. I’m from rural very Hispanic area and I am really struggling. I found out tomatillos are low histamine. Now I have to figure out a pepper substitute.
oh I’m so sorry to hear that. I wonder how it would be if you made a type of cucumber salsa? You could cut it up into chunks instead of blending it. You could base it off a recipe like this. You would need to leave out the lemon and the jalapeno, but maybe you could substitute the tomatillo for that? Best of luck!
I ate dinner at the Modern Market in the Denver airport two nights ago. They are very happy to work with food allergies! Thank goodness! I don’t know what I would’ve done for dinner otherwise… They removed the high histamine items from the dish. It was an Ahi tuna salad with mango salsa. I don’t know what they used to kick up that mango salsa, but it was amazing! I know it had mangoes and red onions and cucumbers. Maybe the red onions were the kick ..? It was absolutely delicious, and something that is perfect for people with histamine intolerance, and for those who can’t eat peppers of any kind.
Thanks for sharing the resource!
This was SO good I didn’t even miss the tomatoes! But I added wayyy too much onion so it was a bit too spicy but overall it tastes delicious and will be made again!
Oh I’ve done that too haha! I never realized onions could be so spicy. I’m glad you enjoyed the salsa. My daughter loves it and she even drew me a first place ribbon for “The BEST salsa” to put on my recipe 🙂